Storms
37 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 31 became tropical storms. 22 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 2 reached super typhoon strength.
Read more about this topic: 1972 Pacific Typhoon Season
Famous quotes containing the word storms:
“You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“It’s the set of the soul that decides the goal,
And not the storms or the strife.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)
“An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye:
Give him a little earth for charity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)