Over the 19 years embraced in the
analysis period, five or six T. C. of consideration affected Cuba. However, it
is difficult to assure the accuracy of this with certainty.
Melero, Fernández de Castro,
Tannehill and Rodríguez Ramírez include in their chronologies the following
ones:
|
Melero
(1870)
|
F.
de Castro (1871)
|
Tannehill
(1950)
|
Rodríguez
Ramírez (1976)
|
| -------- |
1851,
Aug. 16-21
|
-------- |
1851,
Aug. 19-21
|
| -------- |
-------- |
1852,
Aug.
|
-------- |
| 1856,
Aug. 21-21 |
1856,
Aug. 22-31
|
1856,
Aug.
|
-------- |
| 1859,
Oct. 2 |
1856,
Oct. 2
|
1859,
Oct.
|
-------- |
| -------- |
-------- |
1865,
Aug.
|
-------- |
| 1856,
Oct. 22 |
1865,
Oct. 22
|
1865,
Oct.
|
1865,
Oct. 22
|
| -------- |
-------- |
-------- |
1866,
Jun. 28-29
|
| Table 1. Hurricanes
affecting between 1851 and 1869. According to different chronologies. |
A chronology published by Martínez
Fortún in 1948 was not taken into account, because only meteors that crossed
on the Villa of San Juan de los Remedies or its suburbs were registered.
Neither it was possible to use for the characterization of this period father
Mariano Gutiérrez-Lanza’s excellent chronology (1926), because its
compilation begins in the year 1865.
After having concluded an interesting
investigation on the hurricanes of the second half of the XIX century in the
Atlantic Ocean, Fernández-Partagás and Díaz (1996) they have been able to
determine the trajectories of numerous new tropical systems whose existence
was ignored. Starting from those results, we insert here the figures published
by their authors for the period 1851-1870:
| Decade |
Known
Hurricanes until 1996 |
New
hurricanes identified by Partagás and Díaz (1996) |
Total |
|
1851-1860
|
33 |
31 |
64 |
|
1861-1870
|
25 |
51 |
76 |
|
Total
(1851-1870)
|
58 |
82 |
140 |
|
Chart 2. Number of already known and new hurricanes
identified in the second half of the XIX century. |
We consider possible that some other
tropical system may have crossed over Cuba or its vicinity during that period
without being detected by the observers and, consequently, not been included
in any of the mentioned chronologies.
Up to 1870, the last T. C. of
remarkable intensity that had affected the City of the Two Rivers was San
Francisco de Asís's Storm (October 4 - 5 1844), catastrophic in Havana and
also in Matanzas. In this last place it registered at the time a minimum of
948 hPa.
