Storms
A total of 35 tropical cyclones formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 32 became tropical storms. They existed in every month of the year except February and March. Of the 35 cyclones, 21 reached typhoon intensity, and of these six reached super typhoon strength. Ten tropical cyclones struck the Philippines this season, making it the most active for the archipelago during the decade of the 1980s.
Read more about this topic: 1989 Pacific Typhoon Season
Famous quotes containing the word storms:
“It’s the set of the soul that decides the goal,
And not the storms or the strife.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)