NOAA Tide Predictions (click here)
Winds were up to 150 mph with 325 to 600 Americans dead and 800 missing. The 1925 storm is one ninth the size of Irma. Things have changed a great deal in less than 100 years.
Irma is a record storm for Florida, Cuba, Caribbean and the northwest hemisphere in general.
...AT 10 A.M. ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, the Weather Bureau in Washington issued an advisory about "a very severe storm" that would pass through Nassau early Friday evening in a direction that would push it onto the Florida coast. Newspapers ran the advisory, but readers failed to take it seriously.
Just before 6 p.m., Miami weatherman Richard Gray received orders from the Weather Bureau in Washington to issue hurricane warnings. But in 1926 there were few avenues for warning people. Only a handful of people owned radios to hear the warnings broadcast on South Florida's only radio station.
That evening the wind began to blow harder, the barometer kept falling, and the waters started rising. Gale-force winds lashed the shore.
At 2 a.m. the hurricane, 60 miles wide, struck the shore with tremendous force. In pitch darkness, Floridians cowered before the roar of the winds and the crash of collapsing buildings.
Artist Bob Lamme, 9 years old at the time, described how he felt that night in Miami: "The thrilling excitement I had expected to experience with the storm was not there. In its place was a chilling fear."...
