1880 Hurricane Two

[Jim Eshelman]

August 13, 1880, 1:00 UT, near Matamoros, Mexico

Before hurricanes had names, they were simply counted by year. The second Atlantic hurricane of the 1880 hurricane season (usefully called1880 Hurricane Two) was the 17th most intense hurricane on record, as best as can be reconstructed.

Its second landfall was its most powerful and impactful, and is the event examined here. At landfall, winds were about 150 mph. Impact was in the northern part of Tamaulpas state in Mexico, 15 miles south of Port Isabel, TX it hit south of Brownsville, TX and Matamoros, Mexico: Matamoros is probably as close as I can get). It destroyed 300 hoes in in Matamoros and levelled many buildings in Brownsville. Casualties were about 30 (maybe more), most of them at sea where many ships were lost or stranded; I can find about 14 deaths on land.

The hurricane hit at sunset, with Pluto just past the local IC.

Year: Capsolar {+2}
Neptune sq. MC 1°07'
Mars more widely foreground
-- Mars-Neptune conj. 3°39' in mundo
Moon-Mars sq. 0°22'
Moon-Pluto sq. 0°46' in mundo

Bridge {+2}
CapQ Moon sq. s Pluto 0°31'
t Saturn conj. Cansolar Asc 0°25'
t Jupiter sq. Cansolar MC 0°36'

Quarter: Cansolar[ {+1}
Saturn on Asc 1°10'
Jupiter sq. MC 1°31'
Moon, Sun, Venus more widely foreground
-- Moon-Sun sq. 0°04'
-- Moon-Venus sq. 0°17'
-- Sun-Venus conj. 0°10'
-- Moon-Jupiter sq. 1°47' in mundo

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)

Week: Liblunar {+2}
Mercury on EP 0°04'
Neptune on MC 1°43'
Sun on Asc 3°03
-- Sun-Neptune sq. 1°19' in mundo
Moon-Jupiter op. 2°08' in mundo

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 / +1 = +2}
p Moon sq. s Pluto 0°31'
p MC conj. p Uranus 0°23', t Uranus 0°49'
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t Mercury op. MC 0°29'
-- t Mercury sq. s Neptune 0°38'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p MC op. s Mercury 0°04'
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t Saturn conj. s Asc 0°25'
t Jupiter sq. s MC 0°36'