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:
“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)
“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)