Weather Break

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Since Weather Break originates on the campus of Jesuit university, from time to time we like to take the opportunity to mention some of the contributions made by Jesuits to the field of meteorology. Today we turn our attention to Father Benito Viñes, who was known as “Father Hurricane” in his lifetime. He was the director of a meteorological center in Cuba in the late 1800s, and his insights into the use of weather information relayed by telegraph revolutionized our understanding of hurricane motion and the prediction of hurricane tracks.

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Here is an interesting online biography of Father Viñes.  There also has been an article about him in Weatherwise.