The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Circular Storms

Sea Terms

The name given to revolving storms, such as West India hurricanes.

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2026 Editor's Note: The 'law of storms' — circular winds, a calm eye, rules for the dangerous semicircle — was the era's life-saving meteorology and is still taught to mariners. Satellites added the warning time. See tropical cyclone. (Ed: BR 2026-07-17)

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