The 1940 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 16, 1940, and lasted until October 31, 1940. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. Two flooding storms impacted the southern and eastern United States during August in relatively quick succession.
Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, hurricane and/or season:
“We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)