Hurricane season 1950 as reported in Cuban newspapers
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of newspaper articles pasted onto pages bound to form a scrapbook. All articles in Spanish, some illustrated, published between the dates of 13 Aug 1950 and 22 Oct. 1950. Some pages have typed headings, some typed sections fill in for missing newspaper accounts. Newspapers from which the articles are taken are identified as Diario de la Marina, Avance, Excelsior, Alerta, and El Mundo. "The 1950 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in which tropical cyclones were given official names in the Atlantic basin ... It was an active season with sixteen tropical storms, with eleven of them developing into hurricanes. Eight of these hurricanes were intense enough to be classified as major hurricanes, a denomination reserved for storms that attained sustained winds equivalent to a Category 3 or greater on the present-day Saffir-Simpson scale. The high number of major hurricanes make 1950 the holder of the record for the most systems of such intensity in a single season. The large quantity of strong storms during the year yielded the highest seasonal accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) of the 20th century, and 1950 held the seasonal ACE record until broken by the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season."--Wikipedia, viewed 29 Aug., 2012.