The name Larry has been used to name one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean and at least one in the southern hemisphere.
In the Atlantic, the name is on the modern six-year lists:
- 2003's Tropical Storm Larry - Struck Mexico after drifting southward through the Bay of Campeche, causing heavy rainfall and 5 deaths.
The name is on Brisbane's list for the south Pacific:
- 2006's Cyclone Larry - the most powerful tropical cyclone to hit Queensland since 1931.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or larry:
“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)
“I care not what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I’ve yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.”
—Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher)