1826 Canary Islands storm

Storm The 1826 Canary Islands storm (also known as San Florencio Storm) was the worst weather-related disaster in the history of the Canary Islands, claiming at least 298 lives. It was likely either a tropical cyclone or a storm system derived from a tropical cyclone. Meteorological history The November 1826 stormCriado Dorta Bethencourt 2008 46 has been explained as a tropical storm that intensified after an interaction with a mid-latitude trough and moved close to the Canary Islands;Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 334 atmospheric pressures dropped to 966–947 hPa inHg on at 500 m elevation.Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 335 Alternatively, the storm might have been an extratropical cyclone that formed from a tropical system.Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 336 The French naturalist Sabin Berthelot explicitly called this storm a "hurricane".Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 336 Impact The storm impacted the entire Canary Islands, with some islands disproportionately hit. It is still the worst known weather-related disaster in the history of the Canary Islands. Trees and plantations were flattened and windsBethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 331 with gusts probably exceeding 120 - 150 km/h mphCriado Dorta Bethencourt 2008 48 damaged houses (reportedly 603 in Tenerife alone) and ships in ports (of which six were reportedly lost);Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 331 the death toll in Tenerife reached 298 and sources speak of "floating cadavers" and "infinite number of dead".Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 332 Most of the destruction and death toll was caused by the precipitation.Criado Dorta Bethencourt 2008 48 Geomorphological changes also took place in the islands as a consequence of the storm, an alluvial fan on Teide and flood deposits on Lanzarote were most likely formed by it. During this storm, the original statue of the Virgin of Candelaria, the patron saint of the Canary Islands, disappeared.http://www.divainternational.ch/spip.php?article146 Diva International. The Black Madonna : Virgin of Candelaria Divainternational.ch 2010-08-23 Records Research on past tropical cyclone activity in the Canary Islands has gained importance after Tropical Storm Delta passed through the islands in 2005, amid concerns of global warming.Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 329 Other storm events with rainfall that affected the Canary Islands aside from Tropical Storm Delta occurred in December 1645, January 1713, October 1722, November 1922, January 1957 and December 1975; none, however, was as intense as the 1826 event.Bethencourt-González Dorta-Antequera 2010 330 References Criado C Dorta P Bethencourt J Navarro JF Romero C García C Evidence of historic infilling of valleys in Lanzarote after the Timanfaya eruption (ad 1730–1736, Canary Islands, Spain) The Holocene 1 December 2013 23 12 10 10.1177/0959683613505342 en 0959-6836 2013Holoc..23.1786C 129574882 Dorta Antequera Pedro Yanes Luque Amalia Rodríguez-Báez José Ángel 2017 Determinación y caracterización de situaciones de temporal marino e inundación costera por rebase del oleaje en San Andrés, NE de Tenerife (1984-2014) Investigaciones Geográficas 68 http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/72012 10.14198/INGEO2017.68.06 1989-9890 98 free 10045/72012 free Carracedo Juan Carlos Troll Valentin R. Teide Volcano: Geology and Eruptions of a Highly Differentiated Oceanic Stratovolcano 2013 Springer Science & Business Media 9783642258930 51 en Sources Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 92 3 329–337 0435-3676 40930998 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00398.x The storm of november 1826 in the canary islands: Possibly a tropical cyclone? 2010 Bethencourt-González José Dorta-Antequera Pedro 129932701 20.500.11765/8551 El temporal de 1928: reconstrucción de sus causas y sus consecuencias en la Isla de Tenerife Criado Constantino Dorta Pedro Bethencourt José Francisco 2008 Asociación Española de Climatología 9788461260515 https://mdc.ulpgc.es/cdm/ref/collection/revhiscan/id/252 Efectos del aluvión de 1826 en Güímar es Hernández Morán José Revista de historia canaria 32 La Laguna de Tenerife 1968 222–231 Yanes Amalia October 1993 Los aluviones históricos en Canarias https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283081633 XIII Congreso Nacional de Geografía Actas del XIII Congreso Nacional de Geografía 611–615 ResearchGate Category:Hurricanes in the Canary Islands Category:1826 natural disasters Canary Islands storm Category:November 1826 Category:1820s disasters in Europe Category:19th-century disasters in Spain