The 1901 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and early fall of 1901. The season was average, with twelve tropical storms, five of which became hurricanes and none became major.
Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, hurricane and/or season:
“Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
When such a destin’d wretch as I,
Wash’d headlong from on board,
Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
His floating home for ever left.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)