The name Irene has been used for the following tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- Atlantic
- Tropical Storm Irene (1959), Came ashore in Florida
- Hurricane Irene (1971), struck Nicaragua as a Category 1 hurricane which passed into the Pacific and was renamed Olivia
- Hurricane Irene (1981), Category 3 hurricane. moved across the Atlantic both ways, eventually hitting France as an extratropical storm
- Hurricane Irene (1999), Category 2 hurricane. passed over Cuba and struck Florida in the United States
- Hurricane Irene (2005), Category 2 hurricane; did not pass over land
- Hurricane Irene (2011), Category 3 hurricane that passed over the Caribbean and the Bahamas then, as a Category 1 hurricane, made landfall on the East Coast of the United States causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, and over 50 deaths
The name Irene was retired in the North Atlantic after the 2011 season, thus, it will never be used for an Atlantic hurricane again. It will be replaced with Irma for the 2017 season.
- Western Pacific
- Tropical Storm Irene (1947), formed in the Philippines
Famous quotes containing the words tropical and/or storm:
“Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)