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:
“Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all. And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i’ the wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“and the oxen near
The worn foundations of their resting-place,
The holy manger where their bed is corn
And holly torn for Christmas. If they die,
As Jesus, in the harness, who will mourn?
Lamb of the shepherds, Child, how still you lie.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)