Storms
35 tropical cyclones formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 32 became tropical storms. 18 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 4 reached super typhoon strength.
Read more about this topic: 1990 Pacific Typhoon Season
Famous quotes containing the word storms:
“The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of the compass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“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)
“An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye:
Give him a little earth for charity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)