The name Olive has been used for a total of eleven tropical cyclones worldwide: one in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, nine in the Western Pacific Ocean, and one in the Southwest Indian Ocean.
The name "Olive" was used because of the green tint to the atmosphere and precipitation associated with the storm(s).
Eastern Pacific:
- 1974's Tropical Storm Olive - didn't affect land.
Western Pacific:
- 1947's Super Typhoon Olive (T4715)
- Typhoon Olive (1952) (T5213) - affected Wake Island.
- 1956's Typhoon Olive (T5622) - struck the Philippines.
- 1960's Typhoon Olive (T6005, 12W) - struck the Philippines and China.
- 1963's Typhoon Olive (T6301, 05W)
- 1965's Super Typhoon Olive (T6520, 25W)
- 1968's Tropical Storm Olive (T6806, 09W, Edeng)
- 1971's Typhoon Olive (T7119, 19W) - struck Japan.
- 1978's Typhoon Olive (T7802, 02W, Atang) - struck the Philippines.
Southwest Indian Ocean:
- 1965's Cyclone Olive
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“After the brief bivouac of Sunday,
their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,
hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)
“Even when seen from near, the olive shows
A hue of far away. Perhaps for this
The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows
Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries,
And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess,
Teaches the South it is not paradise.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)