Storms
A total of 35 tropical cyclones formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 32 became tropical storms. They existed in every month of the year except February and March. Of the 35 cyclones, 21 reached typhoon intensity, and of these six reached super typhoon strength. Ten tropical cyclones struck the Philippines this season, making it the most active for the archipelago during the decade of the 1980s.
Read more about this topic: 1989 Pacific Typhoon Season
Famous quotes containing the word storms:
“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)
“It’s the set of the soul that decides the goal,
And not the storms or the strife.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)
“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)