Cary Mock

This is for the Haiphing Typhoon I believe that killed 3000+ people.

This an 1881 ship log in the S China Sea that mentioned birds in the eye of a typhoon

1780 will always be The Great Hurricane for the North Atlantic. 1703 will always be The Great Storm. www.history.com/this-day-in-...

The most extreme hurricanes in history Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica with the strongest wind speeds the Caribbean nation has ever experienced. Here’s how it compares to other record-breaking storms. In October 2025, category five Hurricane...

No doubt Hurricane Melissa will be in the record books but we shouldn't forget about the Great Hurricane of 1780 in the Caribbean. island.lk/the-most-ext...

Randy Cerveny mentioned to me about birds observed in Hurricane Melissa. I recall seeing in some old ship logs of birds in the eye of a hurricane/typhoon, but can't find any offhand. I did see that I have this account of the early Sept. 1841 typhoon near Taiwan.

Thistlewood a bit brief some days and a bit tough to read.

Was looking at the diary of Thomas Thistlewood for hurricane descriptions, who kept diaries at Jamaica for much of the mid-later 1700s. Descriptions depict him as a ruthless slave owner, the contrast of Reverend Alexander Glennie of S Carolina. Both kept great weather diaries for > 35 years though.

This from Kerry Emmanuel's book "Divine Wind" on the track of the October 1780 Savannah-la-Mar Hurricane that killed 3000+ people at Jamaica. Similar track as Melissa. May have been a Category 4. This was a different hurricane than the Great Hurricane that killed 20,000 people in the Caribbean.

From William Reid's Law of Storms that shows a British log in Jamaica during a hurricane on October 3rd. 1780.

In a Flooded Future San Francisco, Care Is All We Have | KQED In Susanna Kwan’s debut novel ‘Awake in the Floating City,’ climate catastrophe creates makeshift family.

Interesting novel on the next big California flood(s). I may buy it. www.kqed.org/arts/1397574...

- 1815 The hurricane viewed from Kingston:

Quite a bit on the Jamaica October 1815 hurricane at jamaica-history.weebly.com/--1815.html

I got some good British newspaper accounts of that October 1815 hurricane. I don't have any ship logs. I did a search for 1815 HMS stuff a long time ago, was targeting more on the USA hurricanes. In retrospect, still getting experience about the logs then, probably would get more information now.

No Category 5 hurricanes for Jamaica that I know of, but a very slow moving hurricane with a bunch of rain, hit Jamaica in October 1815.

Potential legendary hurricane for Jamaica. I talked with Mike Chenoweth in this a while ago. He knows a lot more about the historical Jamaica hurricanes than anybody. Modern record as I always say is just too short, even though some people shoot down the older stuff.

On historical Jamaica hurricanes, this book is a fascinating read. #hurricane #Jamaica www.jstor.org/stable/20020...

I mentioned the Cuba-Hatteras Hurricane of late October 1837 a short time ago, here is my take on it. A major hurricane in Cuba. Melissa likely won't [but I did not say definitely not] duplicate it nor go as far west, as this was a very unusual late season hurricane.

Peter Skene Ogden and James Douglas correspondence on weather and snow in western Washington in January 1847.

Melissa very likely to be a strong hurricane eventually. Long-term -- most likely will not affect the USA East Coast, but it's hard to forecast that far in advance. A few Euro model left outliers bear some similarity to the Cuba-Hatteras hurricane of Oct. 26-29, 1837.

For S Carolina, I have just 2 Hurricanes after October 20: 1835 (Oct. 28-30) and 1792 (Oct. 30-31). The 1835 could have been post-tropical but for now I am keeping it as tropical. Similar for 1792. I do not have the 1861 Expedition Storm as a Hurricane (and definitely not 1899) for the Carolinas.

When is South Carolina's typical last tropical threat? An unnamed hurricane, which struck the Grand Strand on October 31, 1899, remains the latest hurricane on record to make landfall on the Palmetto State.

The 1985 Hurricane Kate was very unusual for SC (as a TS) but the 1899 Halloween Hurricane is bogus. www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2025...

Blurb from the diary of Marcelius Bixby, near Placerville, California in 1852. Looks like big rain on snow event.

The Reanalysis simulates the big early October 1849 Nor'easter off the Northeast USA. It was not tropical or a hurricane.

Karen Kupperman mentioned in one of her articles on a great New England drought in 1645. Tree rings suggest It was a huge National scale drought.

Although brief and probably questionable, this newspaper clipping does indicate two real severe New England droughts centered in Connecticut, confirmed by some tree ring maps.

It is good that Typhoon Halong will very likely remain well east of Japan.

A North Carolina tornado (not hurricane ) in 1826.

Description of a Hurricane near Bermuda in 1609, from the Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies.

I haven't studied all the flood details closely (been hoping a student could do it), but the Great Mobile Hurricane in 1852 is perhaps Columbia's SC biggest tropical cyclone flood event. Vast extent of river flooding, including Asheville NC, to Augusta and the Lowcountry.

Typhoon Neoguri, actually now at 100 knots, heading toward the Aleutian Islands.

Imelda may stay east of SC. Likely no hurricane force winds. I have thought about past SC hurricanes (not tropical storms) that stalled or moved real slow. No modern SC hurricanes lasted more than 2 days with tropical storm winds. I have 4 historical events of such: 1722, 1741, 1835, and 1854.