The name John has been used for six tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and two tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere. John is not to be confused with Juan, which was used in the Atlantic in 1985 and 2003.
In the Eastern Pacific:
- 1978's Hurricane John - did not affect land
- 1982's Hurricane John - a Category 3 hurricane, which never made landfall
- 1988's Tropical Storm John - affected the southern tip of Baja California
- 1994's Hurricane John (T9420, 10E) - formed near Mexico, crossed the international date line becoming Typhoon John, then crossed back. Longest lasting tropical cyclone in recorded history.
- 2000's Tropical Storm John - did not affect land
- 2006's Hurricane John - Made landfall on Baja California
- 2012's Tropical Storm John - a short-lived tropical storm, did not affect land.
In the Southern Hemisphere:
- 1989's Cyclone John - affected Cocos Island as it was developing.
- 1999's Cyclone John - made landfall between Port Hedland and Karratha in Western Australia
- Other
- Hurricane John may also refer to John Stagikas, a wrestler whose ring name is "Hurricane" John.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or john:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“When the storm rattles my windowpane
I’ll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain
For I’ll have plunged deep inside the thrill
Of conjuring spring with the force of my will,
Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here
Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I do not wish to see John ever again,—I mean him who is dead,—but that other, whom only he would have wished to see, or to be, of whom he was the imperfect representative. For we are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)