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"and precipitation totals wre as high as23.3 in (590 mm)." - Three things: (1. "wre" is a typo (2. add a space between as and 23.3 (3. There were higher rainfall totals observed from Aletta.
Here it says Aletta dropped 57.36 inches of rain. However, I cannot can only find mirror sites as the source. I would suggest that you look for a source for that, but if you cannot find it, but leave the maximum rainfall as 23.3 inches.
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It always seemed suspicious to me that a small tropical storm hundreds of miles away could have caused the disastrous floods in Central America. I checked in with Philippe Papin, the expert on Central American Gyres, and he confirmed my suspicions:
accompanying tweet. The floods were caused by a prolonged rain event from a Central American Gyre, not Aletta. Although news reports explicity state Aletta, it was not the cause. This is backed up by the
Monthly Weather Review making no mention of the floods whatsoever in relation to Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones. ~
Cyclonebiskit (
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21:25, 10 August 2020 (UTC)reply
In order to see if @
Cyclonebiskit: is correct here, I looked at the newspapers cited and noticed that they are all American based. This makes me wonder if someone put noticed that Aletta was operating in the Pacific and certain newspapers just attributed the floods to that. As a result, I would suggest merging the MH with 1982 Pacific hurricane season and moving the rest of the content to either 1982 Central American floods or even better starting a list of floods in Nicaragua and or Honduras.
Jason Rees (
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21:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)reply
I didn't see this until now, but @
Cyclonebiskit:, thanks for looking into this. I have no issues merging the 10 year old article of mine. My hunch is 2E formed from the gyre but I have no sources to confirm this so.
YEPacificHurricane20:35, 29 October 2021 (UTC)reply