Tag
hurricanes
- RADAR is an acronymRAdio Detection And Ranging, a US Navy coinage from 1940, and how it changed storm watching.
- The telegraph and the first storm warningsFor the first time, news of a storm could travel faster than the storm itself.
- Father Benito Viñes, Padre HuracánA Jesuit priest in Havana who read the sky so well he issued the first scientific hurricane warning in 1875.
- Galveston 1900 and the dismissed Cuban warningsThe deadliest natural disaster in US history, and the Weather Bureau's refusal to listen to Havana.
- How a Cuban warning reached TexasThe undersea telegraph cable from Havana to Key West, laid around 1867, tied Cuba into the US wire network.