List of fictional tropical cyclones

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This is a list of fictional tropical cyclones.

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[edit] Novels

  • Amanda: The name of the storm in Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic. The Soviet Navy used the storm as cover to board the newly raised ship in an attempt to sabotage the retrival of an rare mineral, byzanium for use in an anti-ballistic missile defense system.
  • Maria: The name of the storm in George R. Stewart's bestselling 1941 novel, Storm. Although not, strictly speaking, a hurricane, the storm is highly notable for receiving a woman's name, the first widely-known example of such personification. In the novel, a character referred to only as "the Junior Meteorologist" gives storms women's names as a private mental game. Stewart said that he was inspired by reading that "a certain meteorologist had even felt storms to be so personal that he had given them names." Stewart's book in turn inspired Lerner and Loewe's song "They Call the Wind Maria." It is widely thought to have influenced U.S. Navy meteorologists, who gave female names to Pacific tropical storms during World War II.
  • (Unnamed) A High Wind in Jamaica. (U.S. title: The Innocent Voyage). 1929 novel by Richard Hughes Horrific incidents described from a child's point of view, beginning with the destruction of the family's house by a hurricane. "If Emily had known this was a Hurricane, she would doubtless have been far more impressed, for the word was full of romantic terrors...."
  • (Unnamed) In Hazard. 1938 novel by Richard Hughes. A single-screw turbine cargo steamer encounters a hurricane off the coast of Cuba. Reviewers compared it to Joseph Conrad's Typhoon, admired the weather descriptions, complained of "puppet-like" characters.
  • (Unnamed) The Cay. A pivotal point of the story involves the hurricane that strikes the small island where the two main characters are marooned.

[edit] Television

[edit] Movies

  • Hurricane Noelani: Massive hurricane is the East Pacific in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. It never made landfall, but was called the strongest hurricane on record.

[edit] Games

  • Hurricane Hermione: At the beginning of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, this hurricane was forecast to hit Miami, Florida, forcing officials to close roads that kept the player confined to a specific island. As the player progresses, the warnings are lifted, abeit to an unknown reason.

[edit] Music

  • (unnamed): Jimmy Buffett describes a tropical cyclone in the Gulf Stream with winds greater than 60 mph in his A1A song Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season. The storm produces rough seas and grey skies in southeastern Florida.[2]
  • (unnamed): A fugitive captain loses his mind during a hurricane when a coconut hits him in the head, as described in the Jimmy Buffett song Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More on his Floridays album.[3]
  • (multiple unnamed): Jimmy Buffett describes a sailor who goes through several hurricanes and typhoons in his Christmas Island song A Sailor's Christmas." [4]
  • (multiple unnamed): Several hurricanes affect the fictional Caribbean island of Kinja in the Jimmy Buffett song Don't Stop the Carnival.[5]
  • (unnamed): Hugh Prestwood dreams of a hurricane in his song Savannah Fare You Well. The hurricane produces heavy rainfall which kills the songwriter.[6]

[edit] See also


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