re: How did they track hurricanes in the 1900s?

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Stop with the political bullshite. The USA did not block messages that is a lie.

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The Weather Bureau forecasters had no way of knowing the storm's trajectory, as Weather Bureau director Willis Moore implemented a policy to block telegraph reports from Cuban meteorologists at the Belen Observatory in Havana – considered one of the most advanced meteorological institutions in the world at the time

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On September 8, 1900, the hurricane struck Galveston with 135 mile per hour (217 kpm) winds and a massive storm surge, leading to the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, the full extent of which has never been determined.

“The (United States) weather bureau chose to ignore the warning, and 6,000 to 10,000 people lost their lives,” Thomas said

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As early as Monday, September 3, the storm was being observed by meteorologists in Cuba. They were perhaps the best in the world at assessing and predicting the tracks of hurricanes, and they knew the storm had grown into an unmistakably violent one headed for the Texas Gulf Coast. Why didn’t the U.S. Weather Bureau know that? The grim answer to that question had to do with a highly problematic relationship between the United States and Cuba following the Spanish-American War.

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