A quadrant-based “law” of these events was formulated by the colonial governor William Reid and explained by Henry Piddington’s Horn Book. Benito Viñes (“VEEN-yes”) invented instruments named for these events at the Jesuit Colegio de Belén (“ko-LAY-hee-oh day bay-LEN”). Based on models in his 1841 book on the “philosophy” of these events, James P. Espy suggested burning Appalachia. An 1860s fad correlated these events with a glass’s crystallized camphor (“CAM-fer”). Until 2023, the highest ACE (“ace”) index for these events was reached during 1899’s Feast of San Ciriaco (“seer-YAH-ko”). The 1-2-3 “danger rule” accounts for the past ten years’ errors about these events, whose common name derives from similar Maya and Taíno (“TYE-noh”) gods of chaos. Belmopan was built after one of these events in 1961, while one in 1900 ended the “Golden Era” of Galveston. For 10 points, what events are tracked by NWS centers in Hawaiʻi and Miami during their Atlantic “season”? ■END■
ANSWER: tropical storms [accept hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, thunderstorms, rainstorms, squalls, ciclón, ciclones, National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center, Galveston Hurricane, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, storm glasses, ciclonoscopio, or The Philosophy of Storms; prompt on weather or rain or natural disasters; prompt on floods or inundations or equivalents by asking “caused by what events?”] (Clues include accumulated cyclone energy and the National Weather Service.)
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