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Around The World With Swash And Buckle
Newspaperman, novelist, playwright, adventurer, Richard Harding Davis was a legend in his own lifetime.
August 1967 | Volume 18, Issue 5
He was the most celebrated journalist of his time before he was thirty, and he moved through the dangers and graces of his era with the daring insouciance of one of his fictional heroes. His by-line was a herald's trumpet sounding across the timescape of fin de siècle, calling the nation to view the pageantry of destiny through his eyes, to live the high adventure of it with him.
Richard Harding Davis became the embodiment of all the hungry hopes of youth for early success. His newspaper career created, in fact, a new mold of socially acceptable accomplishment for ambitious and well-bred Americans. He was a star reporter among the shining company of Dana and Brisbane's New York Sun men when he was twenty-five. Two years later he was managing editor of Harper's Weekly .
In a time that prized short stories as much as novels he wrote both, prolifically. The contemporary satirist Finley Peter Dunne said that Davis "probably knew more waiters, generals, actors, and princes than any man who ever lived." Dunne and others were constantly to pay him the compliment of wry criticism. One anonymous chronicler outlined a typical Davis day. It consisted, he wrote, of "a morning's danger, taken as a matter of course. In the afternoon a little chivalry, equally a matter of course to a well-bred man, then a clash from hardship to some great city, a bath, a perfect dinner nobly planned. Shrapnel, chivalry, sauce mousseline, and so to work. …" Davis would have had to concede it was right on the mark, with the possible exception of the delayed bath: when he was in a battle area, he took a portable tub along.
Yet beneath the mannered pose was a person of substance. Davis believed that a code of gentlemanly conduct and rigid honesty was the proper mantle of the man who followed the high calling of telling others what to think. Much of what he wrote did not survive beyond his short lifetime and the first generation of legend that followed it. But the legend itself animated that enduring tradition of the newspaperman-turned-novelist, and it led the vanguard of literate young college men into the city rooms, whence some would depart to write their books but where others would remain—to change the forms and substance of American journalism.
For an almost insufferable young dandy who dropped out of two colleges and lost his first newspaper job, it was an achievement that made even Davis' least likely fictional protagonists credible. Yet Davis had never doubted that he was born to succeed. His mother was a fiction writer whose promising early efforts brought her notice and kindly comment from the Boston Brahmins and their high-born spokesman, the Atlantic Monthly. The first of her stories to be accepted there appeared in 1861 and brought her fifty dollars. It was a propitious event for a spinster approaching thirty in wartime Wheeling, then in Virginia. The story and a subsequent novel, Margaret Howth, which the Atlantic serialized, attracted the attention of a young law student, L. (for Lemuel) Clarke Davis, a future editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He travelled to Wheeling to meet Rebecca Harding and married her in 1863. Richard, the first of three children, came along in 1864.
Of the two parents, Rebecca was the stronger. Her stark tale of "Life in the Iron Mills" of Wheeling anticipated the age of social realism by decades. Her social consciousness and a deep Christian faith dominated the Philadelphia household in which Richard, his brother, Charles, and his sister, Nora, grew up. It was a permissive and loving domination, however, and forever after Richard looked to his home as "the center of the universe."
His father provided the balance of sophistication. He became a drama critic and later editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and into their lively home for pre-matinee luncheons came the Jeffersons, Drews, and Barrymores, Ellen Terry, and the venerable Edwin Forrest. Young Richard, captivated, staged his own plays, with himself as hero, Nora as heroine, and Charlie as villain. Charlie, in a volume of letters and commentary, recalled those dramas with discomfort: the villain always died by strangulation, and his big brother took his acting seriously.
From all this, and a lackluster career at the Philadelphia Episcopal Academy, Richard emerged with a knowledge that the great were human, a high sense of drama, a love of costumery, and a firm belief that he was uniquely blessed, through the intercession of his wise and saintly mother, by a kindly God. He was, in short, a bumptious, disconcerting young man.
He weathered a year at Swarthmore College Preparatory School, neglecting study and writing endless romances. Next he was shipped off to his bachelor uncle's home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to prepare to enter Lehigh, where the upperclassmen marvelled at the resplendent newcomer—and plotted to haze him properly.
He was, Davis wrote home, "a sort of special object of ridicule on account of the hat and cane, walk and so on." "So on" included a twice-around foulard, a waistcoat, and an ulster. But he wouldn't be hazed. He announced to the sophomores who waylaid him on a street in Bethlehem, "There's not enough men here to haze me, but there's enough to thrash me, and I'd rather [be] thrashed than hazed. …" As a sympathetic crowd of mill-workers gathered, the sophomores moved in to do the thrashing. When the police arrived, Davis was on his feet (though he'd been knocked down once), facing his tormentors and demanding three times (like Sir Gareth beating on a shield) that they produce a champion whom he could engage in single combat. The sophomores slunk away and Davis, having given a friend beer money for the millworkers, was borne off by admirers to his reward—a beefsteak for his blackened eye. It was a typically incredible performance. Had the sophomores seen the letter he wrote home, they might have come back for another try. "I am now the hero of the hour," Davis wrote. "… One gets taken care of in this world if you do the right thing."
The faculty at Lehigh were impressed, too, but not so much that they could ever see their way to giving him a passing average. He left after three years, Lehigh's most popular flunk. He tried an academic comeback at Johns Hopkins the following year but left without winning a degree, telling his influential father he was ready for the world. He had published a few minor short stories, and he was armed with his experience on the Lehigh Burr and a certain limited fame as the only Lehigh halfback to score a touchdown in the school's disastrous opening season. Surely that was enough for a start.
It wasn't. City Editor James Chambers of the Philadelphia Record was pained by Davis' raiment, unawed by his literary accomplishments, and not interested in sports. He offered only "chance" work. Davis lasted three months.
At the Philadelphia Press, where he next appeared, Davis told City Editor A. H. Hoeckley that "Jim Chambers gave me nineteen assignments at $7 a week—and I don't think he liked my [yellow] gloves." Hoeckley hired him anyway and Davis returned the compliment by putting away the gloves and getting down to work. Pleased, the Press brought him along quickly. In a short story modestly titled "The Reporter Who Made Himself King," Davis later wrote gratefully of this kind of training:
The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. … That is the way he was trained, and that is why at the age of sixty he is still a reporter.… And he will only do what he is paid to do.
Now, you cannot pay a good reporter for what he does, because he does not work for pay. He works for his paper. He gives his time, his health, his brains, his sleeping hours, and his eating hours, and sometimes his life, to get news for it. He thinks the sun rises only that men may have light by which to read it. But if he has been in a newspaper office from his youth up. he finds out before he becomes a reporter that this is not so and loses his real value. He should come right out of the University where he has been doing "campus notes" for the college weekly, and be pitchforked out into city work without knowing whether the Battery is at Harlem or Hunter's Point, and with the idea that he is a Moulder of Public Opinion and that the Power of the Press is greater than the Power of Money, and that the few lines he writes are of more value in the Editor's eyes than is the column of advertising on the last page, which they are not.
After three years—it is sometimes longer, sometimes not so long—he finds out that he has given his nerves and his youth and his enthusiasm in exchange for a general fund of miscellaneous knowledge, the opportunity of personal encounter with all the greatest and most remarkable men and events that have risen in those three years, and a great fund of resource and patience. He will find that he has crowded the experiences of the lifetime of the ordinary young business man, doctor, or lawyer, or man about town, into three short years; that he has learned to think and to act quickly, to be patient and unmoved when every one else has lost his head, actually or figuratively speaking; to write as fast as another man can talk, and to be able to talk with authority on matters which other men do not venture even to think until they have read what he has written with a copy-boy at his elbow on the night previous.
Reading this, young college men who might have become doctors or lawyers or businessmen, or even men about town, began queuing up before doors labelled "Editor" to wager their three years.
Well into his own apprenticeship, Davis used his familiarity with the theatre to win interviews with Helena Modjeska, the Polish-born star of the English and American stage, and Sarah Bernhardt. Another time, he talked the boss into sending him to interview Walt Whitman. Whitman, who usually avoided reporters, was disarmed by Rebecca Harding's presentable young son, but Davis was not all that pleased with Whitman: his fingernails were dirty. Davis was satisfied enough with the interview to send it, with some other clippings, to his idol, Robert Louis Stevenson.
"If you are to escape unhurt out of your present business," Stevenson wrote back, "you must be very careful and you must find in your heart much constancy. The swiftly done work of the journalist and the cheap finish and ready made methods to which it leads, you must try to counteract in private by writing with the most considerate slowness and on the most ambitious models. And when I say 'writing'—O, believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. If you will do this I hope to hear of you some day."
Davis treasured the advice, the more so because he had already been following it. But in selecting his themes, Davis largely ignored the deep tides of social distress that had gathered in the land. The age of realism, for which his mother had been too early, had arrived. Poets like Sidney Lanier had decried "these cold, merchantable days.' Mark Twain, in The Gilded Age, and Henry Adams, in Democracy, had struck out against corruption in high places. Edward Bellamy was proposing, in Looking Backward, a socialist utopia as the remedy for society's ills. And just ahead were Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie.
Davis was not unaware of distress. He used it often as pictorial background, and whenever he encountered it personally, he invariably emptied his pockets. But both in his personal life and in his novels he lived above it all, his social consciousness apparently molded by the spirit of McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader. That spirit was, in the words of Henry Steele Commager:
Does the widow starve? It is not her fault, to be sure, but neither is it the fault of society, and if she bears up, charity will take care of her. Are orphans bereft? Society has no responsibility for them, but there is always some great hearted man who will come to their rescue or some kind woman who will adopt them. Does the laborer lose an arm or a leg in a factory? The kind employer will reward him. Is the upright man out of work? This is one of the hardships of fate, but, if he is willing to turn his hand to anything, some one will surely recognize his virtue and give him work. Life is full of hardships, but be of good cheer: God watches over his own, most men are kindly and generous and in the end virtue will he rewarded.
Whenever he had a night or an afternoon off, Davis retired to his rooms to write short stories, groping for the protagonist who would capture the popular imagination and win him fame. Days, he hedged his bets, fulfilling the obligations of routine and haunting the wires and the city desk, lusting for the big event that also could win him fame. For fame was the quarry.
In the meantime life, he felt, need not be without adventure. Philadelphia was experiencing a wave of burglaries, and the Press was goading the police to action. When the police invited the Press to try its hand at crime solution, the paper accepted the challenge and chose Davis as its detective. Disguised for the part with a slouch cap, rough clothing, a thin, evil-looking cigar stub, and an alias—"Buck Meiley"—Davis studied the argot of the underworld for a week, then wormed his way into the confidence of the yeggmen. The plan he presented for their next job had the stamp of the born plotter. Naturally the police were waiting. Davis was the hero again.
Then suddenly came the big event he was waiting for. On the afternoon of May 31, 1889, the antique earthen dam of a reservoir a few miles above Johnstown. Pennsylvania, burst, spilling twenty million tons of water into the Conemaugh Valley (see "Run for Your Lives!" in the June, 1966, AMERICAN HERITAGE). Davis, who was enjoying a rare day off, hurried to the office and begged to go. No, he was told, enough men had already been sent. Davis devoured the wire copy ticking back. Nearly three thousand dead. Up to twelve million dollars in damage. It was the disaster of the decade. He pleaded—and prevailed. He went—and distinguished himself. Philadelphia could not hold him now. The Press refused to send him to England to cover the cricket matches between Britons and upstart Americans on the playing fields of Eton, Harrow, and Trinity, so Davis wangled a correspondent's berth with the rival Telegraph. When he returned, flushed with the aroma of good breeding and with his own small successes among the hospitable English aristocracy, his vocational gaze turned toward New York. There, only there, was journalism a high art.
Joseph Pulitzer of the World and William Randolph Hearst of the Journal were waging their circulation wars and tinging them a bright yellow with the first color comic strip, "The Yellow Kid." James Gordon Bennett, the younger, was revivifying the venerable Herald. There was Whitelaw Reid and the staid Tribune; Charles A. Dana and the lively Sun; Arthur Brisbane and the newer, sprightlier Evening Sun.
And there was Davis—cane and gloves retrieved, clippings in hand, confidence at flood—knocking on the door. Of course he was hired. Brisbane, the utopian, spotted a kindred spirit, and Davis was launched scant months before the beginning of the decade in which he was to act out his magnetic legend.
He went through the complicated finger exercises of big-city reporting in short order, and then, voila! fame burst upon him from two directions. The first was the result of a typical Park Row bargain. Brisbane was looking for lively copy to spruce up the back page for the "Saturday slows," and between them he and Davis dreamed up the fictional Cortlandt Van Bibber, Esq., wealthy young man about town. Davis, in return for Saturdays off, could do the weekly piece on Fridays. It was a grand opportunity to get home to Philadelphia on weekends. Davis and Van Bibber blended their identities to their mutual advantage and, of course, to that of Brisbane as well.
Through Van Bibber's eyes, Sun readers viewed the ballrooms of the Vanderbilts and Mrs. Astor. Shopgirls earning three dollars a week were transported to the lavish eating establishments of the swells. Seamstresses in their airless cells saw the opera and mingled with the gentry and sympathized with their charities and saw themselves the beneficiaries. Van Bibber was the host, Davis his social secretary. As the character took form, it became difficult to discern who was improving whom. The success of Van Bibber gave Davis further entrées. But to the elegant Cortlandt Van Bibber and the type he represented, Davis gave an appealing humanity.
Alone in a park, Van Bibber is quietly abashed to be caught by his wealthy friends treating three little slum girls to rides on the swan boats. Walking home late at night, Van Bibber captures a burglar. But does he turn the wretch over to the police? He does not. He stakes him to railroad fare for a new start in the West—and has the good sense to wonder later if he has been conned.
The series was hugely popular, and though some critics complained that Van Bibber was an office boy's idea of a gentleman, he was a common hero on Park Avenue as well as on Sixth. Mass circulation and a collection of the pieces in book form got him around to all—a kind of circuit-riding physician, amusing the patients in hopes that the ills would cure themselves.
Davis' second burst of fame came with a short story called "Gallegher," one which he had been writing and rewriting for months, improving it with each rejection. A copy boy with a keen nose for news and a rough-and-ready courage, Gallegher was an urchin of parts.
Davis gave him a criminal-in-hiding to find, and he did. He gave him a deadline to beat, and he beat it in a stolen carriage, half frozen with cold. It was Courage Triumphant, Grit Rewarded. The newspaper office as a setting for fiction was fresh then; the poor but plucky youngster was a winning hero. Even though slang in popular fiction was practically anathema, Scribner's, at Brisbane's urging, printed the story in August of 1890. It was even more successful than Van Bibber. Collected with other Davis stories into a book, which was later translated into several languages, Gallegher sold more than fifty thousand copies and became world famous. It survived for decades in high-school anthologies.
Davis and the nineties arrived together. Thomas Beer later wrote: "Herewith Davis mounted into celebrity as gracefully as he might have swung his fine body in its handsome dress to the cushion of a waiting cab. … and boys laboring with manuscripts looked up and saw a star."
Brisbane, who was paying Davis the grand salary of fifty dollars a week, knew that he would soon lose him. Samuel S. McClure showed up one day to offer him the New York editorship of his revolutionary new magazine. Davis, anxious to continue writing, turned him down and bided his time. The prestigious Harper's Weekly printed another Davis short story and, pleased with the circulation reaction, offered him the managing editorship. With the brass of Gallegher and the charm of Van Bibber, Davis demanded six months' leave a year in which to travel and write. Harper's not only consented, but agreed to print the travel articles. The short stories it would have to battle over with Scribner's and the Century. Davis' travels took him west, where he chased after Garza, the Mexican revolutionary, with a hard-riding troop of the U.S. Cavalry. Texas Rangers playfully shot his hat around their corral as a mark of affection.
Returning by way of Denver and the Midwest, he was off to England and a wild romp at Balliol, where he joined the undergraduates and helped them plot their escapades. Chicago editor H.J. Whigham, a native Briton, marvelled at the ease with which Davis was accepted. On to London, he drank in the afternoon splendor of a Victorian season, remonstrated with title-hunting American heiresses for their lack of decorum, put on a disguise and hunted Jack the Ripper, and helped an aristocratic young friend win a seat in Parliament.
All of it was grist for his mill. Travel articles and commentary, later to be bound in hard covers, poured back to Harper's. "Davis wrote his travel books as if he were a Marco Polo," a biographer later said, "completely assured that none of his public ever had visited the climes he was discovering." A contemporary observer felt that Davis could inform readers that George Washington was the first President and they would treat it as a fascinating piece of news.
After time out for the Chicago World's Fair—where he was mobbed, having been mistaken for the Prince of Wales—Davis headed back to the Old World for a grand tour through the Mediterranean, picking up plots for five short stories along the way and arriving in the Paris of 1893 after a run through the Balkans on the Orient Express. He met Whistler and Charles Conder and William Rothenstein, the witty-wise expatriate artists, in their Bohemian salons. "He was respectful of our dazzling intellects," wrote Rothenstein dryly, "but he regretted that we were not, like himself, robust and virtuous." But he added, "I liked Davis."
In the meantime Davis' friend Charles Dana Gibson was at work illustrating Davis' articles, often using the writer's fresh, well-barbered face as a model. The Gibson Man who could captivate the cool and distant Gibson Girl became, in effect, the national razor blade: beards, mutton chops, and the historic sideburn began to fall before the onslaught.
Back home in 1895, Davis arrayed himself properly and refreshed himself at the terrace table he preferred in Delmonico's, beside a window with a view of Diana's statue atop the dome of the old Madison Square Garden. The legend was gathering strength, and Dick Davis would never let it go hungry. Donning cork helmet, riding breeches, and soft leather boots, he headed for Central America. The results were a travel book, Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America; the setting for his most famous novel, Soldiers of Fortune; and a new genre of short stories featuring vain dictators, stung capitalists, and everpresent gunboats.
In the travel articles that formed the basis of Three Gringos he told his readers: "The Central American citizen is no more fit for a republican form of government than he is for an arctic expedition." His advice was a compound of jingoism and paternalism that sounds familiar today: "What he needs is to have a protectorate established over him either by the United States or by some other power; it does not matter which, so long as it leaves the Nicaragua Canal in our hands."
That same year, now writing on a grander scale, Davis brought out his first novel, The Princess Aline. The heroine was modelled after Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, future bride of Czar Nicholas II, whom Davis had seen from a distance in Athens. The book was only mildly successful; a year later he covered the coronation of Nicholas and Alix in Moscow for Hearst's Journal. Bribing telegraph officials, charming archduchesses and archdukes, and using memorized French flatteries to impress the accrediting officer, Davis won a coveted place inside the Church of the Assumption. His account, faintly redolent of scenes from The Princess Aline, was a clean scoop for Hearst, who featured it next to an enormous picture not of Princess or Czar but of Davis.
"There had been some fear," Bennett's Herald observed dryly, "that the event would be lacking in impressiveness." But the Journal account was syndicated across the country, and Davis' old paper, the Philadelphia Press, picked it up and used Davis' name in the head. Sales of The Princess Aline spurted.
Davis now entered a period of furious activity and mounting fame. Soldiers of Fortune, his second novel, was a frank romance of American imperialism south of the border. It sold more than 100,000 copies.
Now Hearst, who had once paid him five hundred dollars to report a football game, sent him to seething Cuba with artist Frederic Remington in the prayerful hope that their portrayal of Spanish atrocities against Cuban patriots would stir American intervention. They found no atrocities, and Remington returned home. But when Spanish security officials in Havana boarded the American vessel Olivette and searched three Cuban women as spy suspects, Hearst bannered Davis' account and distorted it with misleading headlines and a Remington drawing of glowering Spaniards and naked Cuban senoritas. "DOES OUR FLAG PROTECT WOMEN?" the Journal thundered. The stir of the Olivette affair reached Congress. Davis quashed it—and ended his uncomfortable association with Hearst—by writing a letter to the rival New York World making it clear that the women had been searched by matrons in privacy. Pulitzer headlined the letter—featuring, of course, a picture of an indignant Davis.
He was hardly back from Cuba when he was off again, this time to the Greco-Turkish War. He dodged gunfire by day and recited Byron— "Maid of Athens, ere we part" —during nightly lulls to fascinated and uncomprehending Greek citizen-soldiers. Home again, he turned to playwriting, adding another dimension to his celebrity.
When Mr. Hearst finally got his war in Cuba a year later, Davis, complete with field glasses, was on hand. He headquartered himself on the cruiser New York, which was blockading Santiago Harbor, but soon left the naval squadron to fend for itself, and attached himself to Roosevelt's irregulars at Las Guásimas. When the point of their column walked into enfilading rifle fire, Davis carried wounded, then picked up a rifle and helped return the Spanish fire until the rest of the column came up. He won Roosevelt's unstinting praise. Even Mr. Dooley, with a broguish tongue in a Rooseveltian cheek, was faintly admiring: "At this time, it became apparint that I was handicapped be th' presentee of th' Army an' Navy. A number of days was spent by me in reconnoitring, attended only by me brave an' fluent body guard, Richard Harding Davis."
The century turned, and Davis, secure in his professional eminence, went on fulfilling his own chivalric destiny, gallant as ever, seeming eternally youthful. He was thirty-six. He and the era's edifice of optimism had but a decade and a half to go.
He grew more realistic in his fiction—but only a little more so—more farcical in his plays, more lavish in his tastes and his mode of living. But he was still the same Davis, and he proved it by going through with an unlikely marriage into which he had trapped himself with his own romantics. He sent a cockney messenger boy eight thousand miles from his London apartment with a letter to Miss Cecil Clarke of Chicago. They were warm friends, but the message was not—as the newspapers speculated—a proposal. The stunt attracted so much attention, however, that Davis apparently couldn't resist doing what was expected of him. He married the girl and later took her off with him to the Boer War, trailing three ox-carts of equipment—including the portable bathtub.
He crowded the opening years of the new century with globe-trotting, another stint at war correspondence during the Russo-Japanese conflict, and a prodigious amount of fiction. At one point he had three plays going on Broadway and two more on the road, and was producing an average of one book and six short stories a year. He dabbled unself-consciously in foreign policy and toyed with the notion of getting into politics. Grover Cleveland advised him that he would achieve more, much faster, by "breaking stones." At the Republican convention of 1912 he helped manage—in evening clothes—Roosevelt's attempt to steamroller past Taft, and later became embroiled in the ill-fated Bull Moose movement. He built a farmhouse retreat in Westchester County, New York, with fifteen master bedrooms and nine baths; at his wife's insistence he constructed a kennel and became, in Gibson's phrase, "decidedly doggy."
The marriage ended in 1912, and Davis, though he was nearing fifty now, pursued and married the popular musical-comedy star Bessie McCoy, the "Yama Yama Girl." Critics continued to snipe at the figure he cut. But Booth Tarkington called him "a sophisticated heart of gold," and Jack London, who in his own brawling way followed the Davis example, growled, "People can say what they damn please, but Davis is a great big 'white man.' "
When hostilities began in Europe, he signed contracts with the New York Tribune, the Wheeler Syndicate, and Scribner's Magazine and set off on his last adventure. Remaining in Belgium after the French retreated and before the British rallied, Davis described the German entry into Brussels. Even his critics thought it the most masterful piece of correspondence to come out of the war. Here is a passage from one of his Scribner's pieces:
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of a passing army. And when early in the morning I went to the window the chain of steel was still unbroken. As a correspondent I have seen all the great armies and the military processions at the coronations, in Russia, England, and Spain, and our own inaugural parades down Pennsylvania Avenue, but those armies and processions were made up of men. This was a machine, endless, tireless, with the delicate organization of a watch and the brute power of a steamroller. And for three clays and three nights through Brussels it roared and rumbled, a cataract of molten lead. The infantry marched singing, with their ironshod boots beating out the time. In each regiment there were two thousand men and at the same instant, in perfect unison, two thousand iron brogans struck the granite street. It was like the blows from giant pile-drivers. The Uhlans followed, the hoofs of their magnificent horses ringing like thousands of steel hammers breaking stones in a road; and after them the giant siege-guns rumbling, growling, the mitrailleuse with drag-chains clanking, the field-pieces with creaking axles, complaining brakes, the grinding of the steel-rimmed wheels against the stones echoing and re-echoing from the housefront. When at night for an instant the machine halted, the silence awoke you, as at sea you wake when the screw stops. …
For three weeks the men had been on the march and there was not a single straggler, not a strap out of place, not a pennant missing. Along the route, without for a minute halting the machine, the post-office carts fell out of the column, and as the men marched, mounted postmen collected postcards and delivered letters. Also, as they marched, the cooks prepared soup, coffee, and tea, walking beside their stoves on wheels, tending the fires, distributing the smoking food. …
It is, perhaps, the most efficient organization of modern times; and its purpose only is death.
Exceeding the limits of his German credentials in order to follow this sinister marvel out of Brussels, he was stopped and accused of spying. After a night of argument with a Prussian colonel intent on having him shot, Davis finally spoke to a more sympathetic Bavarian general, and he wriggled free, badly shaken.
Convinced that America would be drawn into the conflict, and equally convinced that we were unready, he hurried back to help organize the propaganda of preparedness. When a volunteer brigade of wealthy New Yorkers organized at Plattsburg, he joined them for a rugged four-week training course and taxed his aging heart with still-youthful enthusiasm. He began to suffer angina symptoms, but wrote them off to indigestion. When the Wheeler Syndicate again asked him to represent its newspapers, he returned to the front, first to France, then to Greece, where the battered British and French divisions were being rolled back out of Serbia. During the bitter winter of 1915 he covered the Balkan Campaign from Salonika, dressing formally for dinner promptly at six each evening, and each morning taking icy baths in his portable tub with a fine regard for ritual and a foolish disdain for a heart already weakened.
After a final tour of the western front he came home to Crossroads Farm, to Bessie and his year-old daughter, Hope. In three months he was dead of a heart attack. The war that killed his era had killed Davis.
Sixteen years later the ingénue of a popular novel would walk into Delmonico's and fall in love with Richard Harding Davis. The irascible H. L. Mencken would concede that he was "the hero of our dreams." A Sinclair Lewis character would imagine himself a "Richard Harding Davis hero in sunhelmet and whipcord breeks." But Tarkington would write the best epitaph:
"Youth called to youth.… [The young] got many things from him, but above all they live with a happier bravery because of him. Reading the man beneath the print, they found their prophet and gladly perceived that a prophet… may be a gallant young gentleman. This one called merrily to them in his manly voice; and they followed him. He bade them see that pain is negligible, that fear is a joke, and that the world is poignantly interesting, joyously lovable."


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Reflecting on the success of Mars Orbiter Mission
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla
Topics: Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), mission status
With the exhilarating arrival of Mars Orbiter Mission today, India has joined the ranks of interplanetary nations. Actually, you could argue that India's been interplanetary ever since Mars Orbiter Mission departed Earth's gravitational influence. Every time I try to compose a simple statement about what Mars Orbiter Mission means, I find it difficult to state clearly what makes India's accomplishment so special. Last night, caught up in the enthusiasm, and having spent an hour hearing it from ISRO's webcast, I tweeted this:
India has become the first country EVER to enter Mars orbit on the first attempt! Congratulations!! #MarsOrbiter— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) September 24, 2014
This statement is only barely correct, and there are a lot of asterisks. Most especially: What about Mars Express? To discount its achievement because ESA is not a "country" is really a slight to the accomplishment of ESA and Mars Express, ESA's first interplanetary orbital mission. The only two previous ESA planetary science missions were the Giotto Halley flyby, and the SMART-1 lunar orbiter, which, like Chandrayaan-1 did for ISRO, gave ESA the experience necessary to attempt its first solo interplanetary mission. I have seen some people arguing that Mars Express wasn't fully successful because of Beagle 2, but that's really not fair; Beagle-2 was a failed add-on to an orbital mission that has been incredibly successful by any measure. Another points out Mars Express didn't depart on an ESA launcher (it was a Soyuz). People in my Twitter mentions are also busily arguing about whether, in fact, NASA succeeded in its first attempt to orbit Mars with Mariner 9. (The question is how you count Mariner 8, which failed to leave Earth, since NASA was launching two identical craft to mitigate against just that risk. Would we consider the Mars Exploration Rover mission a failure if Spirit hadn't launched successfully, but Opportunity had?)
But with all this quibbling about wording I already feel like I've strayed too far from my intended path. I could try a different statement about Mars Orbiter Mission, like it's the first successful Asian mission to Mars, following the failures of Japan's Nozomi and China's Yinghuo-1 (cue the pedants pointing out that the Soviet Union included much of Asia and had several successful orbit insertions), but I think that, too, misses the point. What makes Mars Orbiter Mission so special is not what happened in the past in other countries.
Mars Orbiter Mission was homegrown in India, built by a successful and skilled Indian aerospace establishment, carrying Indian-built instruments and operated out of Bangalore; the main foreign contribution to this mission's success has been the irreplaceable communications services of NASA's Deep Space Network, delivering Mars Orbiter Mission's messages to Earth. I've witnessed such a swelling of pride among the Indians I follow on Twitter, and not the kind of pride created at somebody else's expense, but rather the kind that expands you from inside and makes you walk an inch taller and raise your eyes to distant horizons. India has dared to do something that was previously beyond its reach -- and by daring, and then achieving it, India has expanded its own possibilities.
Now prime minister Narendra Modi speaking in mission control. What a moment for India pic.twitter.com/taSpiMytnl— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) September 24, 2014
Just minutes after the spacecraft regained contact with Earth, prime minister Narendra Modi -- who had been visibly present for the whole exciting affair -- delivered a stirring speech, switching every few sentences between English and Hindi, articulating what this accomplishment means for India. His speech touched on many of the usual "dare mighty things" themes: space is difficult and risky; great accomplishments come only after confronting great risk. But he went on to speak to the scientists and engineers, not just to congratulate them, but also to tell them how their exciting accomplishment would inspire young people and future generations. Some quotes, via IBN Live:
"MOM ka Mangal se milan hua (MOM has been united with Mars)....Scientists have made great personal sacrifices to achieve this. Through your achievements, you have honoured our fore-fathers, and inspired our future generations."
Those future generations are, without question, inspired. Here's an open letter to ISRO shared yesterday by a young engineer, Krishna Jagannathan. Some highlights:
I am writing this to express my gratitude for doing what you do, and for instilling a sense of heroism among millions of young people across the country. As an eighteen year old, when I was an electrical engineering undergraduate at IIT Madras, I was lucky enough to witness the first ever launch of the GSLV rocket from Sriharikota on 18 April 2001. No, I will not tell you how I managed to get into Sriharikota on that day! The sight of the rocket belching yellow flames and soaring gloriously into the gray sky is permanently etched in my mind.... Thirteen years hence, I want to thank you for providing that moment of inspiration for that eighteen year old.
Just remember that every time you send a rocket soaring, there will be thousands of kids (and millions on television) who will crane their necks to watch it go, their own spirit and inspiration soaring to the sky.
And that's why Mars Orbiter Mission is special. What will a newly inspired generation in India accomplish? What "impossible" problems will they attempt to solve next? I look forward to finding out.
RT @NidhiSubs: Respect. The women powering India's space program http://t.co/uuYF0qFM6y via @qz pic.twitter.com/DYOf6IMXhO— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) September 24, 2014
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By: weatherhistorian, 8:30 PM GMT on October 29, 2011
The Great Bangkok Flood
Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is currently experiencing what is perhaps the greatest flood ever to swamp a city so large in world history. This dynamic Asian megalopolis has a population of around 10 million within the city limits and a metropolitan population of at least 20 million. The flood is affecting virtually every resident and many have evacuated to provinces outside the flood zones.
The worst of the flood was expected to occur on Saturday October 29th as the river that bisects the city, the Chao Praya, was expected to crest at its highest level ever recorded (some 8 feet above normal) and astronomical high tides were expected to peak, possibly causing the drainage of the cities canals and the Chao Praya to back up and push the flood waters into the heart of the city. Fortunately however, it appears that, so far, the dikes have held and the worst-case scenario is not playing out. This could change at a moments notice.
Here are a series of maps outlining the situation:
Above are two satellite views of the south-central Thailand region with Bangkok near the bottom of both images, just north of the Gulf of Siam into which the Chao Praya River flows. The top image shows a typical end of the rainy season flood situation with the flooded portions showing up in black (photo taken on November 13, 2008). The bottom image shows the same view as of October 25th this year.
This map is an overview of the greater Bangkok metropolitan area (about thirty miles by thirty miles square) and what the various flood risks are by district. The downtown Bangkok area is centered on the east side of the Chao Praya River between Nontha Buri and Bang Na. Map produced by Bangkok Post graphics.
Here is a close up of the central Bangkok area and where the flooding situation stands as of Oct. 29th. The color codes are the same as in the top map but the areas in bright yellow are where the flood has most recently expanded into.
This a 'worst case scenario' map illustrating the maximum possible depth of flood waters expected in the greater Bangkok area should the dikes fail. One foot is about 25 centimeters.
As of Saturday, much of the Bangkok is shut down and many residents have left the city.
Historical Perspective
It is likely that this flood will surpass the great flood of 1942 both in terms of depth of floodwaters and certainly in terms of economic costs. In recent times, the worst flood to affect the city was in May of 1986 when 15.79" of rain inundated the city in a 12 hour period on May 10-11th of that year. This, however, was a flash flood and although the water reached 3-5 feet deep in much of the downtown area, the waters receded quickly since it was the first rain of the season. Nevertheless, the disruption to city life was such that the mayor lost his job and a new massive sewage infrastructure project was undertaken, the results of which have to some degree alleviated floods in the city since. The system has never been so challenged as now.
A photo of Sanam Luang Park in front of the Grand Palace in Bangkok during the flood of October 1942. Photo source unknown.
Looking into the future, this photo and caption from the Asian Property Report may best sum it up!
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By: weatherhistorian, 10:06 PM GMT on October 22, 2011
Update on Drought in Texas and Surrounding Region
The first substantial rains of the year inundated portions of central Texas over the past two weeks providing some welcome relief to a few areas. However, the drought remains the worst on record for most of Texas and New Mexico, and a dust storm reminiscent of the 1930s pummeled the Texas Panhandle and areas south of there just last week.
A dust storm bears down on Lubbock, Texas on October 17th. Photo by John Holsenbeck/AP.
Recent rainfall, illustrated in the above set of precipitation anomaly maps, has alleviated the drought situation in portions of Central Texas.
Texas Drought Situation
In spite of the recent rainfall most of Texas remains in a critical drought situation as the latest drought monitor maps for the state indicate:
Two cartographic views of the drought in Texas. The top map is the drought monitor map based largely on soil moisture and at bottom is the Keetch-Byram Drought Index map which is designed to assess fire danger on a scale from 0 (low fire danger) to 800 (extreme fire danger).
Some sites, such as Amarillo and Lubbock, are on track for their driest calendar year on record and have already established their driest water year (Oct. 1-Sept. 30) ever observed. For the state as whole, the January through September period has ranked as the direst since at least 1895.
The latest statewide precipitation ranking map for the past 117 years for the year 2011 as of September 30th. Both Texas and New Mexico have experienced their driest year on record so far. In contrast, Vermont, New York, Ohio, and New Jersey have experienced their wettest year on record so far.
New Mexico Drought Situation
New Mexico, like Texas, has also experienced its driest January through September period on record as the ranking map above indicates. As of Oct. 1, all of the state aside from a couple of small pockets, have experienced well below normal precipitation.
However, since the above map was created some good rainfall has fallen over portions of the state so far this October including Albuquerque, which picked up 1.44" in mid-October, its first substantial rainfall in over a year.
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Louisiana Drought Situation
Drought-stricken portions of western Oklahoma experienced some very heavy rainfall in October alleviating to some degree the short-term drought situation. Western Kansas, however, missed most of the rainfall and Dodge City is on track for possibly its driest calendar year on record. Dodge City has already experienced its driest water year on record when only 7.94" fell between Oct. 1, 2010 and Sept. 30, 2011. Its previous driest water year was 8.36" in 1956. The driest location in the state for the past water year was Sublette 7 WSW where a meager 4.49" was measured. Elkhart picked up only. 6.00".
Since this graphic was produced on September 30th, Dodge City has picked up an additional 1.20" of precipitation so far this October. Graphic from the NWS office at Dodge City, Kansas.
Western Louisiana also missed the recent rains and remains in exceptional drought. Shreveport has received only about 58% of its normal precipitation so far this year.
Below are some maps and tables summarizing the latest drought and precipitation figures for the region:
The precipitation table above shows the year-to-date (as of Oct. 22) precipitation, what the normal year-to-date precipitation should be, and what the single driest calendar year on record has been for the cities listed. Note the paltry .48" so far this year at Pecos: the driest calendar year in Texas records was 1.64" at Presidio in 1956.
Two overview maps of the seasonal drought outlook for the USA and the amount of additional precipitation needed to return to normal.
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Updated: 12:06 AM GMT on October 23, 2011
By: weatherhistorian, 10:39 PM GMT on October 16, 2011
September 2011 Global Weather Extremes Summary
September was yet another busy month for global weather extremes. Highlights included the worst flooding in Pennsylvania and upstate New York since 1972 as a result of Tropical Storm Lee, devastating wildfires in Texas and Minnesota, the deadliest typhoon to hit Japan since 2004 (Typhoon Talas), and unusual heat in the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Below are the month's highlights.
Tropical Storm Lee made landfall in Louisiana on Sept. 4th and brought record-breaking rainfall to portions of Mississippi, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and New York. All-time 24-hour precipitation records were broken at Jackson, Mississippi with 10.68" on Sept. 4-5, Chattanooga, Tennessee with 9.50" on Sept. 5-6, and Binghamton, New York with an amazing 8.70" on Sept. 7-8. The latter almost doubled the city's previous record 24-hour rainfall of 4.68" set just last year on Sept. 30-Oct. 1. The storm also helped Binghamton set its all-time wettest month on record with a total of 16.58" (old record 11.45" in June 2006). It was also the wettest September on record (since 1895 at least) for the state of Pennsylvania.
The flooding in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey was the most devastating since Tropical Storm Agnes in June 1972.
Storm-total rainfall map of Pennsylvania for Tropical Storm Lee. The map shows how much precipitation was recorded at various COOP sites during the period of Sept. 5-8. The point maximum was 15.20" at Elizabethtown, Lancaster County.
In contrast, the drought in Texas culminated in a series of wild fires in the south central portion of the state near Austin. Four people were killed and some 1,600 homes destroyed. A forest fire in northern Minnesota consumed 93,000 acres in the Pagami Creek area, the largest fire in Minnesota in over 90 years.
This is actually a color photo, not black and white, of ash coated ground and charred trees in Bastrop State Park, Texas following the wild fire event in September. Photo by Pat Sullivan/AP.
The coldest temperature measured in the northern hemisphere this past month was -41.1°F (-40.6°C) at Summit station, Greenland on Sept. 30th.
SOUTH AMERICA and CENTRAL AMERICA
Unusual warmth affected Argentina, southern Brazil, and Bolivia during September. Argentina reported its warmest average maximum temperature (for September) in 50 years. The hottest reading recorded in the southern hemisphere was 110.5°F (43.6°C) at Villamontes, Bolivia. All-time absolute maximum temperature records were recorded in Ver Gleba Celeste, Brazil with 106.2°F (41.2°C) and Floriana City, Brazil 107.6°F (42.0°C). San Jose de Chiquitos, Bolivia tied its all-time heat record with a reading of 105.8°F (41.0°C).
The United Kingdom recorded its 6th warmest September on record and Spain its driest since 1988. In the U.K. an unusual and unprecedented late September heat wave brought record temperatures to much of the country. The highest reading was 84.6°F (29.2°C) at Cambridge and Sutton Bonington (Nottinghamshire) on the 30th. The heat peaked on Oct. 1st (the details of which will be in my October summary). The remnants of Hurricane Katia lashed Scotland on Sept. 12th resulting in several storm-related fatalities and a peak wind gust of 86mph at Glen Ogle. However, it was a storm on the Isle of Wight on Sept 6th that produced the top wind gust for the month of 87mph at Needles Old Battery. The coldest temperature in the U.K. during September was 31.3°F (-0.4°C) at Tyndrum, Stirling on Sept. 15th. The maximum 24-hour rainfall reported in the U.K. was 3.13" (79.4mm) at Capel Curig, Conwy on Sept. 5-6th.
I am unaware of any notable extreme weather events in Africa this past September.
Significant typhoons impacted the Philippines (Typhoon Nesat) and Japan (Typhoons Talas and Roke) during the month. Nesat flooded Manila on Sept. 26-27 and brought wind gusts as high as 106mph. Some 55 people were reported killed as a result of the storm. Typhoon Talas struck Japan on Sept. 2 with fierce winds and flooding rains resulting in the deaths of at least 73. It was the deadliest typhoon to strike the country since 2004. Rainfall rates averaged almost 3"/hr at Yamanakoko, Yamanashi and the storm total of 65.06" (1652.5mm) at Nara was an all-time single-storm total for Japan. It was estimated that even greater amounts of up to 80" (2000mm) fell in mountainous regions of Nara Prefecture. Typhoon (Roke) struck Tokyo on Sept. 21st with winds of up to 130mph. Approximately 13 deaths were reported.
Typhoon Roke at her strongest as a Category 4 strength storm on Sept. 20th as it approached Japan. NASA image.
Heavy monsoon flooding was reported in Cambodia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, and China during the month. In Pakistan some 200,000 were displaced and over 200 killed during floods in the southeastern region of the country during the first week of September. In India, the eastern state of Orissa was swamped by torrential rains that caused flooding resulting in the deaths of at least 32. The flooding in Thailand and Cambodia gradually worsened over the course of the month culminating in catastrophic flooding in October (more on this in my October summary next month). Flooding in the provinces of Sichuan, Henan, and Shaanxi in China during the middle of the month led to scores of deaths. The flooding in Sichuan was reported to be the worst since records began in 1847.
The hottest temperature in the northern hemisphere and the world during September was measured at Abdaly, Kuwait on Sept. 5th with a reading of 118.2°F (47.9°C).
In Australia minimum temperatures averaged the coldest for September since 1985 and in Western Australia since 1978.
Average minimum temperature deciles for September in Australia, the coolest such since 1985. Map courtesy of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
The warmest temperature in the country during the month was 103.5°F (39.7°C) at Bradshaw, Northern Territory on Sept. 30th and the coldest 12.2°F (-11.0°C) at Charlotte Pass, new South Wales on Sept. 22nd. The maximum calendar day precipitation measured was 6.89" (175mm) at Wyong, New South Wales on Sept. 26th.
The coldest temperature in the southern hemisphere and the world during September was -112.4°F (-80.2°C) recorded at Dome Fuji on Sept. 18th. This was also the coldest temperature measured in the world for the year 2011 (since Antarctica is now entering its spring and summer and lower temperatures than this are not expected to occur).
KUDOS Thanks to Maximiliano Herrera for global temperature extremes data and Stephen Burt for the U.K. extremes.
Updated: 7:14 PM GMT on October 17, 2011
By: weatherhistorian, 8:42 PM GMT on October 06, 2011
Tropical Storm Superlatives for Australia and the Indian Ocean
In this last blog of my series on tropical storm superlatives, I cover the Indian Ocean Basin which includes the Bay of Bengal where the world's deadliest tropical storms occur, as well Australia's cyclone superlatives. Both the east and west coasts of Australia are occasionally pounded by intense tropical storms that originate in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean respectively, but for the sake of simplicity I am lumping both sources that affect Australia in this single blog.
This map shows the average number of tropical storms on an annual basis to affect the Australian and the southern Indian Ocean regions. Map courtesy of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Australian Tropical Storm Superlatives
Most Intense Australian Cyclone
Tropical storms are called cyclones in both the Indian Ocean region and Australia. Since Australia does not have the equivalent of America's hurricane hunter air reconnaissance the minimum barometric pressures of cyclones in the region are normally estimated using Dvorak and satellite observations rather than actual measurements when the storms are still offshore. Consequently there are differences of opinion between various agencies that monitor storms approaching Australia.
The above maps show the paths of all tropical storms to affect Australia during the period of 1906-2006 (top map). Unfortunately, the meaning of the various colors used for the paths is not explained although I assume they have to do with relative intensities of the individual storms that are tracked. Map courtesy of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
According to Australia's Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre (based in Brisbane) Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica reached its greatest intensity on April 23, 2006 after it had crossed Queensland and entered the Gulf of Carpentaria north of Australia when a central barometric pressure of 905mb (26.72") was reached. However, the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which was also monitoring the cyclone, estimated the pressure to have been at least 879mb (25.96") and some calculations even came up with a figure of 969mb (25.66"), which would be a world record if true. In any case, even at 905 mb, Monica would at least tie with Cyclone Orson in April 1989) as Australia's most intense tropical storm. Sustained winds of 185mph with gust to 225mph were theorized. Fortunately, Monica passed over sparsely populated areas of Australia and no fatalities and little damage were reported.
An infrared image of Cyclone Monica at her peak intensity on April 23, 2006. Her Dvorak intensity was a perfect 8.0 at this, time the highest on the scale, and winds were estimated to be gusting over 200mph. Image from wunderground.com
Below is a list of the ten most intense cyclones to strike Australia in terms of lowest barometric pressure measured at a land location:
Most Destructive Australian Cyclone
Cyclone Tracy struck the city of Darwin on the coast of Australia's Northern Territory on Christmas Day 1974 killing 71 and destroying 70% of the city's structures. The storm was extremely compact with gale winds extending only in a 31 miles radius from its 4 mile-wide eye. In spite of its small size, winds at its center were estimated to be as high as 150mph with a gust of 135mph actually measured at Darwin Airport before the anemometer was blown away. 41,000 of the city's 47,000 residents were rendered homeless and damage was calculated at $800 million in 1974 US dollars (about $3.5 billion in current dollars).
A photo of the incredible destruction to Darwin following the passage of Cyclone Tracy on Dec. 25, 1974. 70% of the city was destroyed and 71 lives were lost. Photo credit unknown.
The deadliest cyclone in Australian history, and the country's deadliest natural disaster, was the Great Bathurst Bay Cyclone of 1899. Some 300-400 lives were lost along the far northeastern coast of Queensland mostly the crews of pearling vessels.
Highest Measured Wind Speeds in Australian Cyclones
The highest wind speed ever 'officially' recorded on earth occurred when Cyclone Olivia passed over a gas platform off the coast of Barrow Island in Western Australia and produced a measured wind gust of 253mph (408km/h) on Oct. 4, 1996. Although Olivia was not one of Australia's most potent cyclones it is suspected that a mesovortex in the eye wall of the storm passed directly over the observation site producing the extraordinary value. The anemometer ( a heavy duty three-cup Synchrotac) was subsequently checked for accuracy and passed several tests for such.
Below is a list of the highest measured wind gusts at land locations in Australia during the passage of severe tropical cyclones:
Greatest Rainfall Associated with Cyclones in Australia
The greatest precipitation total as a result of a tropical storm was the 99.09" that fell over a three-day period at Bellenden Ker, Queensland January 4-6, 1979. This same storm also produced Australia's greatest 24-hour total of 44.92" at Bellenden Ker on Jan. 4, 1979. A cyclone in February 1893 deposited 67.52" in three days at Mooloolah, Queensland.
Greatest Cyclone Storm Surge in Australia
The Great Bathurst Bay Cyclone of March 5, 1899 produced a storm surge of some 42 feet when it crashed ashore in northern Queensland according to eyewitness accounts and debris damage. This is the highest storm surge reliably recorded anywhere on earth.
Indian Ocean Cyclone Superlatives
The cyclones in the Indian Ocean basin primarily occur in the Bay of Bengal region between India and Burma (Myanmar), the Arabian Sea between India and the Arabian Peninsula, and in the Southern Indian Ocean between Australia and Madagascar off Africa's east coast. The former is most noteworthy for the mass casualties that occur in India, Bangladesh, and Burma, and the latter for the world-record rainfalls that happen on the island of Reunion some 500 miles east of Madagascar.
A map showing the paths of all tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea between 1986-2006.
Most Intense Indian Ocean Cyclones
Cyclone data details are sketchy for this entire region so far as tropical storm intensities are concerned but the lowest barometric pressure actually measured in the Bay of Bengal was during a severe cyclone in 1833 when the British vessel S.S. Duke of York reported a measurement of 891mb (26.30") while passing through the eye of a cyclone.
This map illustrates how cyclones affect India by time of year of occurrence, regions most often affected, and historical storm surges observed at various points along the coastline. Map from Compare Infobase Ltd.
The lowest pressure reached in a Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone I am aware of was 895mb (26.42") during Cyclone Gafilo on March 6, 2004 just prior to striking Madagascar (see end of blog entry about 'Deadliest Cyclones to affect Africa').
Deadliest Indian Ocean Cyclones
All of the deadliest tropical storms on earth have occurred in the Bay of Bengal when tremendous storm surges have swamped the low-lying coastal regions of Bangladesh, India, and Burma. The worst of all was the Great Boha Cyclone of November 12-13, 1970 when a 40-foot storm surge overwhelmed the delta islands of the Brahmaputra and Ganges Rivers in Bangladesh. An estimated 300,000-500,000 perished. This storm is also considered to have produced the greatest storm surge of any Indian Ocean cyclone although similar surges may have occurred during the 1733 and 1876 cyclones.
A storm surge graphic of the Great Boha Cyclone of November 1970. The bars indicate how high the storm surge was at various locations along the coasts of India and Bangladesh in feet. Each bar is '48 feet' long and the green shading inside the bars shows how many feet (out of 48') the surge reached. The greatest height was 40 feet at Hatia, Bangladesh. Graphic from 'Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book' based upon data supplied by the Indian Meteorological Department.
Below is a list of the ten deadliest cyclones to affect this region (these figures vary from source to source, and the Chittagong Cyclone casualties may have been much lower, hence the list is composed of 11 cyclones rather than ten):
The deadliest cyclone to affect the western coast of India (Arabian Sea region) was that of 1882 when 100,000 were killed in and around Bombay.
Greatest Rainfall Associated with Indian Ocean Cyclones
Many of the world's greatest point rainfall records can be attributed to cyclones that pass over the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. The reason for this is that the island has a 10,000-foot volcanic peak that produces a tremendous orographic effect on the moisture associated with tropical storms. The French Meteorological Service maintains a network of rain gauges on the slopes of the mountain. Below is a list of the world-record rainfalls that have been recorded here during cyclone events:
Deadliest and Most Destructive Cyclone to Hit Eastern Africa
Cyclone Gafilo (mentioned above) was the most intense tropical cyclone to strike Africa when it hit Madagascar with winds estimated at 150mph on March 6, 2004. The storm caused the deaths of 285 people on the island and when a ferry was sunk offshore with the loss of 113. Probably the deadliest cyclone to hit Africa in modern records was Cyclone Leon-Eline that brought devastating floods to Mozambique and South Africa after striking the coast of Mozambique on Feb. 22, 2000. At least 1,000 deaths were directly attributed to this storm.
Christopher C. Burt
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The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Christopher C. Burt is the author of 'Extreme Weather; A Guide and Record Book'. He studied meteorology at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.


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In the last 2 weeks I noticed my large male Gourami has bites all over him, the female is fine, and so are the other little ones. He's been in the tank for probably 8 months without any problems, the only fish I have added recently are about 2 months ago I added 3 silver dollar fish, a bala shark, and 4 little tiger barbs about a month ago, could it be one of these guys who are doing it? One of the silver dollars is pretty much the same size as him, but none of the other fish have marks on them. Is there anything I can do to save him? I have another tank with 2 of my pond Black Moors for the winter, could I put him in there? It's not heated though.
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