Abstract: The first barometers in the Americas were provided by the Royal Society of London in 1677 to correspondents in the Caribbean Island of Barbados. Colonel William Sharpe of Barbados was the first person in the Americas to ...

Abstract: This paper documents a rare spell of severe weather in Spain that took place during the mid?nineteenth century when a tropical storm struck the southwest of the country on 29 October 1842. The use of a variety of independent ...

Abstract: This paper draws on a range of contemporary documentary evidence from the New and Old Worlds as well as from the oceanic regions to reconstruct the trajectory and intensity of an Atlantic hurricane from August 1680. In ...