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Finally I've just found what to do with this templates (actually I found it how in the 2005 Pacific hurricane season talk) and they could be just added to the remaining seasons. juan andrés02:11, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Starting with the 1989 season, I've noticed a lot of text says "It reached storm strength". This is bad, and should not be used. "Storm" is too generic to use it as a shortening of tropical storm or subtropical storm. We need to write out "It reached tropical storm strength", or better yet "It became a tropical storm". — jdorje (talk) 23:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
1991 is when good records began for TD's. Before then is sporadic in finding out the depression info. The only thing I can think of is articles by the American Meteorological Society. Hurricanehink (talk) 02:41, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I see. I put the two depressions in a section towards the end labeled "Other storms". They were really nothing more than a sentence or two, plus there wasn't enough information to create infoboxes around them. I think that articles earlier than 1990 should also have the TDs down there because there isn't any data available online for them. Good kitty22:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Can you go for a more interesting first sentence? There is a loose project agreement that the first sentence should not be the "started on X, ended on Y".
Ehh, somewhat, although I think it's fairly trivial. IMO it should be something broader and all-encompassing. For example, that 1990 was the most active season since 1969. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Could you get a newspaper source to prove the 1990 season did in fact start on June 1 as well? I think that should become standard, as it isn't very helpful to say the season currently starts on 6/1 without clarifying the past.
"Development of tropical cyclone ceased in October, however, there were five tropical cyclones to either form or exist in the month" - aside from the first clause not making grammatical sense, I think the effect of the sentence comes across wrong. It should be emphasizing on the high activity of October.
"On July 25, Tropical Storm Arthur crossed the Windward Islands chain, between the island nations of Tobago and Grenada.[12] However, after Hurricane Joyce in 2000, it was noted that Arthur made landfall on Tobago" - the preliminary report says nothing about going between Tobago and Grenada. Why not make it simpler and just say it made landfall? The bit about Joyce is confusing me a bit. I know why it's there, but I don't think it's needed.
"Emerging into the Caribbean Sea, Arthur reached nearly attained hurricane status on later that day." - I think you were going to say the date but then backed out? If you reword the previous sentence to include a date, then get rid of the "on" here, since currently you have to go back two sentences to find out what "that day" was.
Was there anything else? It's sort of a cop-out to only include the source I provided :P Also, as I said below, try and cut down on the watches/warnings. They're really not important. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Given that Bertha already has an article, I think its first paragraph is a bit too long. Try cutting it down a few sentences
Watch out for unit inconsistencies. You have "334 mi (537.20 km)" and "500 mi (804.67 km)" in Bertha's section, and I noticed you do the same further down. They should all be rounded.
In Cesar's section, it feels weird to say it formed "450 mi (724.2 km) south-southwest of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". Aside from the rounding, generally TC articles say "about X miles south of Cape Verde", since the circulation is an estimated point when its that far east, and Cape Verde is used much more in context with TC's.
Given how Diana was the most impacting storm of the season, I would focus more on the impact than the watches and warnings. It doesn't go into anything on its first landfall. Was there a finalized death toll? Was there an estimate on number of houses destroyed, damaged, people left homeless, left without power? Those are some standard things that are missing. I know it's only a section in the seasonal article, but it doesn't mean the section shouldn't stand on its own. I feel the article relies slightly too much on the NHC, such as adding the watches/warnings for filler.
"By the next day, Fran made landfall on Trinidad with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h)" - do you need to indicate the wind speed in two consecutive sentences?
You use the word "Gustav" in every single sentence but one in Gustav's section. Could you cut down on using "Gustav" so often so I don't get sick of the word Gustav by the time I get to Gustav's second paragraph on Gustav?
"After fluctuations in intensity, the subtropical storm finally acquired tropical characteristics, also intensifying into a hurricane, and was classified as Hurricane Lili starting on October 11." - can you simplify that? It sounds like three different events when it was only one.
As I said before, how come you go so much into the watches/warnings for Marco, Lili, and Klaus? The warnings aren't important at all, they're just like an advisory. What's important is what the storm actually does. You could go so much more into the impact in each of those sections if you cut out the warnings, which I suggest doing.
Watch out when you write the word affect or effect. Affect is a verb - "the storm affected two islands" - whereas effect is a noun - "the storm's effects included two injuries".
I have noticed that recent seasons have TDs in their seasonal maps, but older seasons, such as this one, do not. I don't know whether this would be a GAN, FAC, or just a project-wide clarification issue, but I thought I'd point it out, since I noticed the two unnamed TDs aren't in the season map. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:35, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
After some discussion on the main project page, and per this article's current format, since we have TD tracks included in the individual summaries within this season, I'd suggest adding their tracks to the season map. Thegreatdr (talk) 15:28, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The hurricane ultimately peaked as a Category 3 hurricane on August 31, and by doing so, it was the only major hurricane on the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season, and hence, also the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic that year - I just noticed this. Could you cut that down a bit? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In addition to the immediate above, the only things left are making sure the information on Marco is the same in the lede vs. its section, checking out more impact for Arthur (particularly since it doesn't have an article), overall cutting down on watches/warnings (which aren't that important), the "Hurricane Lili. Lili" redundancy, TD1 impact in Cuba, and fixing the primary link for Diana's impact (currently it says "Problem loading page"). Once those are fixed I'll be happy to pass! :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:07, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I found more impact on Arthur, fixed the "Hurricane Lili. Lili" redundancy, got impact on TD1 in Cuba (but probably not enough but that was all I could find). I have also fixed the link for Diana's impact; on the "Way Back Machine", they have introduced a new beta and some of the links got messed up, so I manually searched for it and found it.--12george1 (talk) 01:21, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If this article goes for FAC at any point, there are some details which need fixing to keep things consistent within this article.
As pointed out in GAN, the tracks for the TD's should be included within the season map. Since we have the tracks in wikipedia already within the TD sections, I doubt this would be difficult for the people who know how to do this. I do not, or I'd have done it myself.
The coloration within the satellite images should be similar. This means that the TD1, TD11, and Edouard images should have the false color added to them that the other images have. Again, I'm not familiar with the color pallete used or I'd do it myself.
If any sources can be found, TD11 was handled twice by NHC operationally (in real-time), and most of its movement appeared to occur during the time of the downgrade. Thegreatdr (talk) 20:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
contradiction: previous season with no US landfall[edit]
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Support merge Falls short of the notability threshold for a stand-alone storm article, and given its small size, the article can easily be merged. Drdpw (talk) 02:06, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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