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:
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)