Intensity of the hurricane.
Until the present, diverse authors have classified it as very intense, in particular Fernández de Castro (Op. cit.) and Gutiérrez-Lanza (Op. cit.). Rodríguez Ramírez (1976) sustained a similar approach; but it becomes logical if we remit ourselves to the bibliographical sources used by him for the elaboration of his chronology, in which it is assigned the maximum intensity.
However, father Benito Viñes, S. J., recently arrived in Cuba by that time, made a recognition trip to the regions affected by the meteor and published his findings in a monograph that he submitted to the Academy of Physical and Natural Medical Sciences of Havana (Op. cit.). There he calculated the maximum speed of the wind between 42 m.s-1 and 45 m.s-1 (165 km/h), which agrees almost exactly with the result obtained when applying the formula of Kraft (1961) to the value of the minimum pressure (969,9 hPa) registered in Matanzas. Consequently, this hurricane should correspond to the category 2 of the Saffir-Simpson scale (Simpson and Riehl, 1981).