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THE Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences of May 19 contains an abstract of a useful paper, by Dr. O. L. Fassig, on the above subject, intended to appear as a special Bulletin of the U.S. Weather Bureau. An analysis of 135 storms recorded by the Bureau from 1876 to 1910 in the West Indies shows that their paths closely coincide with the two branches of the great equatorial current of the North Atlantic. The path of greatest storm frequency begins near the Windward Islands, and runs nearly due west to Jamaica, gradually turns north-west, recurves in the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico, and passes out north-easterly over the North Atlantic. A secondary track extends from the northern group of the Windward Islands across the Bahamas, recurves east of Florida, and passes out also north-easterly into the Atlantic.
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Hurricanes of the West Indies and Other Tropical Cyclones . Nature 89, 489 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089489b0
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