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99% Invisible
The book detailed the 500-year history of hurricanes in America, including the Hurricane Priest, Father Benito Vez, who was a Jesuit working out of a coastal observatory in Havana, Cuba. He was able to develop a very intimate understanding of hurricanes and how they behaved and put together a fairly impressive record of predictions.
Eric J. Dolan is the author of "A Furious Sky: The 500-Year History of America's Hurricanes"
— Episode: Category 6
Episode: Category 6
The book detailed the 500-year history of hurricanes in America, including the Hurricane Priest, Father Benito Vez, who was a Jesuit working out of a coastal observatory in Havana, Cuba. He was able to develop a very intimate understanding of hurricanes and how they behaved and put together a fairly impressive record of predictions.
Eric J. Dolan is the author of "A Furious Sky: The 500-Year History of America's Hurricanes"
And a lot of that, as I describe in the book, really had to do with the condescending attitude the American meteorologists had towards their fellow meteorologists