The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest Continental U.S. hurricane strike since 1825?
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About 2/3 the way down the
article is a satellite mosaic showing satellite imagery just after local noon during 9 days of Alma's life cycle. I replaced our previous image with the best image of the group.
Thegreatdr16:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Note - I haven't really looked at the article extensively yet, but there seems to be little information on Honduras and Cuba, which is where the storm basically did everything (85 deaths and $200+ million 1993 USD in damage, which is quite a lot). This is especially highlighted by the exhaustive content on US impact, where the storm's impact was comparatively minor. I realize it is much harder to come across reliable sources for those countries and that you don't speak Spanish, but I think more research is needed for this article to be sufficiently comprehensive.
Auree★★18:00, 28 February 2012 (UTC)reply
For Honduras, I doubt there is any more, since all of that was in one little town which was basically destroyed. I'll check for more Cuba stuffo. --♫
Hurricanehink (
talk)
18:49, 28 February 2012 (UTC)reply
MoS is complied with and I like the lead; although the writing in the body is borderline mediocre in some areas, we can tackle the prose together. Some concerns about ambiguity/jargon:
You mention it was the earliest hurricane to strike the US in the lead and MH, but I don't think it's clear enough as is. Earliest in what sense?
"During June 1966,
low pressures stretched across the western
Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico—a pattern that is was conducive for
tropical cyclogenesis."? Another thing: "across the western
Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico" implies that the pressures stretched across the western Caribbean Sea and the western Gulf of Mexico, but I don't think that's what you mean. In addition, it might be favorable to write "low atmospheric pressure" here to make things clearer.
I disagree with the first part, since low pressure is still a generic pattern that is conducive for development. I'll agree with "low atmospheric pressure" though. --♫
Hurricanehink (
talk)
06:32, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
What is a tropical low? Is there a more accessible and applicable term we can use?
I removed that part, since it's more concise now saying "A mid-level
circulation developed along the trough."
"It did not weaken over land and turned to the northwest in the Gulf of Mexico, passing between Key West and the
Dry Tortugas." Should that be "into the Gulf of Mexico"? Idk, it's not clear as is.
Are you opposed to rewording to "Alma did not weaken over land and entered the Gulf of Mexico, where it turned northwestward and passed between Key West and the
Dry Tortugas" or something along those lines?
Auree★★07:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
"Cool water temperatures contributed to weakening, causing Alma to make
landfall near Apalachee Bay with winds of 90 mph (140 km/h)." Implies that the cool water temperatures' contributing to the weakening caused the hurricane to make landfall.
"One week before its hurricane preparations for the season, Alma gave the
Kennedy Space Center a chance to go through the situation under the threat of a real storm." ???
"A mock-up of a
Saturn V rocket was rolled back to the
Vehicle Assembly Building on June 8, within 12 hours in the face of 60 mph (97 km/h) wind gusts, within the anticipated time for such a move." ????
"San Rafael was nearly destroyed," I know sensationalism is no requirement on WP, especially not for GAs, but this could be worded so much better. It implicitly emphasizes the fact that the town wasn't entirely destroyed, while it should be doing the opposite.
"During its transit of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists were measuring the hurricane's impact of the seawater temperatures around Alma at a depth of 4 meters. They discovered that they cooled off in its southeast quadrant due to the storm's wake." Overall poor wording + dangling participle at the start of the first sentence.
Second to last paragraph of Impact: I usually don't pay attention to repetition when GA reviewing, but four consecutive "which"-clause sentences is a bit excessive.
Ref 15 is returning a "Warning: Registration (access issue)" error, so I suggest you look into that promptly. The rest looks good; will perform spotchecks on 5 sources for accuracy soon.
Auree★★00:24, 1 March 2012 (UTC)reply
It's opening right now, but that error indicates that the link will go dead soon. I meant to suggest archiving it.
Auree★★06:51, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Which ref are you talking about, BTW. Is it the ABC Madrid? I ask because I removed the ref when I removed the bit about the temperatures. And I see nothing about a registration error in any of the links. ♫
Hurricanehink (
talk)
16:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
You're right--it was removed during your edits. : )
I randomly picked
one source in the Google News archives, and it had quite a bit of Cuba info that isn't in the article. I think we can definitely flesh out the impact for this storm in Cuba (and maybe Honduras).
Auree★★07:20, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
I found more. Do you want to discuss this later on IRC or do you think you can do some more research yourself? I don't have the links right now.
Auree★★19:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Images are appropriate and licensed, though the caption for the infobox image isn't very useful since the East Coast is practically invisible. Check capitalization for the rainfall image caption. This doesn't affect the GA, but you might also want to resolve the transfer tagging issue for that image, and the infobox image's details and summary could benefit from some cleanup.
Auree★★00:24, 1 March 2012 (UTC)reply
To say you can "clearly" discern the outline with all that black and white noise is definitely an overstatement, but I won't make a big deal about this.
Auree★★06:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
In conclusion: This article has come a long way since its nomination. The information for Cuba, which was where the storm did most of its damage, really shines now, bringing this article much closer to GA status. I actually think it's beyond that now, so a definite pass from me. :)
Auree★★23:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)reply