The name Holly has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and three in the western Pacific Ocean.
- Atlantic Ocean
- 1969's Hurricane Holly - minimal hurricane that moved through the Lesser Antilles as a tropical depression
- 1976's Hurricane Holly - minimal hurricane that remained over open waters
- Western Pacific Ocean
- 1981's Tropical Storm Holly (T8103, 03W) - moderate tropical storm which formed and remained fairly close to the equator throughout its duration.
- 1984's Typhoon Holly (T8410, 11W, Huaning) - brought heavy rainfall and caused severe damage to the Korean Peninsula, causing one death
- 1987's Super Typhoon Holly (T8715, 15W) - attained super typhoon status, but remained away from land.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or holly:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“When the storm rattles my windowpane
I’ll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain
For I’ll have plunged deep inside the thrill
Of conjuring spring with the force of my will,
Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here
Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“in the holly prickles
You can plainly see
The crown of thorns our Saviour wore”
—Unknown. The Holly and the Ivy (l. 13–15)