The name Olive has been used for a total of eleven tropical cyclones worldwide: one in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, nine in the Western Pacific Ocean, and one in the Southwest Indian Ocean.
The name "Olive" was used because of the green tint to the atmosphere and precipitation associated with the storm(s).
Eastern Pacific:
- 1974's Tropical Storm Olive - didn't affect land.
Western Pacific:
- 1947's Super Typhoon Olive (T4715)
- Typhoon Olive (1952) (T5213) - affected Wake Island.
- 1956's Typhoon Olive (T5622) - struck the Philippines.
- 1960's Typhoon Olive (T6005, 12W) - struck the Philippines and China.
- 1963's Typhoon Olive (T6301, 05W)
- 1965's Super Typhoon Olive (T6520, 25W)
- 1968's Tropical Storm Olive (T6806, 09W, Edeng)
- 1971's Typhoon Olive (T7119, 19W) - struck Japan.
- 1978's Typhoon Olive (T7802, 02W, Atang) - struck the Philippines.
Southwest Indian Ocean:
- 1965's Cyclone Olive
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or olive:
“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)
“Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Even when seen from near, the olive shows
A hue of far away. Perhaps for this
The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows
Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries,
And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess,
Teaches the South it is not paradise.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)