The 1889 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1889.In the 1889 Atlantic season there were three tropical storms and six hurricanes.However, due to scarce technology and the fact that only storms that affected populated land or ships were recorded, the actual total could be higher.
Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, hurricane and/or season:
“We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)