The 1949 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 16, 1949, and lasted until October 31, 1949. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1949 was a fairly active season, with 13 storms reaching tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes. 1949 was the last year in which Atlantic tropical cyclones were not named. Some notable storms of the 1949 season include a Category 4 hitting near West Palm Beach in August, as well as a Category 4 hurricane hitting Freeport, Texas in October; this season was one of only two, along with the 1945 season, in which two Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes hit the United States.
Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, hurricane and/or season:
“Boys hide in lunging cubes
Crouching to explode,
Beyond the Atlantic skies,
With cheerful cries
Their barking tubes
Upon the German toad.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)