The Storm Council

The Storm Council approaches every hurricane the same way — through four distinct lenses, working simultaneously. The Observer tracks the physical event. The storm's formation, its path, its intensity, what it did and how it did it. The Archivist maintains the record — every precedent, every pattern, every time this has happened before and what we carried forward from it, or didn't. As the Council...

Isaac Monroe Cline was not a fool. This is the fact that makes the Galveston disaster so instructive and so difficult to dismiss. He was trained, experienced, and had studied tropical cyclones for years. He could read a barometer with the precision his profession demanded, and he understood, in the general terms available to meteorology in 1900, how Atlantic hurricanes behaved. He was, by the stan...

Welcome to the Storm Council Hurricane History series This is Volume 1, Part 1 of the Hurricane History series, covering the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 – The Hurricane That Remade American Coastal Engineering For more information about The Storm Council, visit stormcouncil.com and subscribe to the Youtube channel at @storm_council Introduction On the evening of September 8, 1900, the city of Galv...