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:
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Beneath the azure current floweth;
Above, the golden sunlight glows.
Rebellious, the storm it wooeth,
As if the storms could give repose.”
—Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)
“The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)