Talk:1976 Atlantic hurricane season

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Indirect?

If Emmy caused a plane to crash, shouldn't those be direct deaths? Or did the plane crash because it was evacuating, but not directly because of the storm's winds? — jdorje (talk) 00:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, the plane crashed during an attempt to emergency land in the Azores. I think that's indirect. Hurricanehink 13:32, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Referring to talk page

Im going to remove the expand request banner if no one discusses about adding more info in the seasonal article. Storm05 17:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? It doesn't need discussion. It needs to be expanded. — jdorje (talk) 20:10, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Season button bar

Can I add a season button bar to this page and the Belle article? It's located here. Icelandic Hurricane #12 22:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I definetely wouldnt mind. Tutmosis 22:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TDs

I found out there were quite a few depressions this season, but I can't find out how many and when they formed? Thw WMR is so confusing. Icelandic Hurricane #12 21:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That might be misleading. 25 TD's seems like a lot for such an inactive year. Hurricanehink 00:49, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly think that the depression should not have their own sections, given that the only info available is formation, dissipation, and location. I propose they have their own section, perhaps being listed in a table format listing formation, dissipation, winds, and locations affected (if any). Hurricanehink (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well they are gone for now. Would it matter if i kept the storm histories in a other storms section?Mitch azenia 20:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that there are no storm histories. That's why I proposed the table. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The high number of TDs is probably because they had just started identifying them, and many of them were really either tropical storms or (more likely) waves or non-tropical systems that they couldn't really tell apart. CrazyC83 00:04, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the non-developing TDs from 1976 from the TC reanalysis spreadsheet

June 06-10, Western Atlantic
June 10-13, Western Atlantic, 1008 mb low
July 05-09, Central Atlantic
July 19-23, Western Atlantic, 1018 mb low
July 22-25, Ern Trop Atlantic
Sept 03-06, Western Atlantic
Sept 05-08, Gulf of Mexico
Sept 19-30, Tropical Atlantic
Sept 21-25, Gulf of Mexico
Sept 25-29, Central Trop Atl
Oct. 02-13, Wrn Trop Atl/Caribbean, large 1003 mb low
Oct. 11-16, Central Trop Atl
Oct. 30-Nov. 4, West Central Atlantic

Thegreatdr (talk) 23:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should the table be updated with this information? Could you add a refernce (it doesn't have to be online). There are lots of citation templates to choose from. I'm going to take them out of the button bar, which is missing the July 5 one anyway.Potapych (talk) 02:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For citations, use the MWR article on Atlantic tropical systems that year. That will likely add to the list above, but the list above is from a file that even NHC mentions should be used with caution. Thegreatdr (talk) 09:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Six years on - these have been moved to the Seasonal effects chart since they are now in HURDAT. When HURDAT is updated i suspect we will be waving goodbye to several of these systems but thats at least two years away imo.Jason Rees (talk) 02:44, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Captions

The images posted with the tracks for Emmy and Frances aren't satellite images as their captions claim, although there is a satellite image of them between. --Patteroast 13:19, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I personally don't like the cloud images. I vote we get rid of them. They don't really add that much. Hurricanehink 13:31, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hink-you said you couldn't find a picture for most storms <1980. I found mostly the best that i could.Google also has a Bob (1979) sattilite but its a .bmp file,(I never got a reply for the other 2 and they were removed from Google oddly).HurricaneCraze32 20:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They aren't satellite iamges, they are clouds. If anyone wants to, they can split up the pic of Emmy and Frances for the storm pics. Do you have a link to the Bob file? Also, you never gave a parent link for those files. With only the picture, nothing is known about them. Do you have the website that they are from? Hurricanehink 20:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NVM Bob-now that i look its one of the 1991 hurricane...The 2 old ones: www.marciawoodgallery.com -HurricaneCraze32 20:31, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hink, these are false color visible satellite pictures from a geostationary satellite. Thegreatdr 20:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you be a little more specific? If they are paintings, then they can't be used. Hurricanehink 20:35, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One is a photo,one is a painting-the flooding is photo.HurricaneCraze32 20:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, where on the site do I go for the picture? Which artist is it under? Chances are, it's not fair use. Hurricanehink 20:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually-i couldn't find them on there-you try your luck.HurricaneCraze32 20:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned references in 1976 Atlantic hurricane season

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of 1976 Atlantic hurricane season's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "TCR2":

From 1975 Atlantic hurricane season: Preliminary Report: Tropical Storm Hallie: October 24–28, 1975 (Report). National Hurricane Center. p. 2. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
From Tropical Storm Dottie: "Tropical Storm Dottie Preliminary Report Page 2". National Hurricane Center. Retrieved 2009-07-05.

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 19:38, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I will do this later. Noah^Talk 19:38, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was reviewing this Noah and had an edit conflict. Consider the review finished ;) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I've ever see 2 people try to review the same GAN at the same time in my 11 years editing. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 17:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Which is why my edit conflict was so unexpected XD ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:56, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the reviewer to @Hurricanehink:, but left the timestamp as 19:38 as that was when the page was officially created. Noah^Talk 20:06, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first system, a subtropical storm, developed in the Gulf of Mexico on May 21, several days before the official start of the season. - this should be mentioned earlier when you mention the dates of the season.

Done--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A total of 21 tropical cyclone formed - first, grammar (cyclones), and second, is it 21 tropical, or 21 tropical/subtropical?

21 including the subtropical cyclones. I changed it to simply "cyclones". Let me know if you object--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just "cyclones" would include non-tropical cyclones. Just say subtropical or tropical cyclones. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:55, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I did that instead--12george1 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When you mention the seasonal activity compared to normal, your usage of "near" and "slightly above" is odd. 10 is "near normal" compared to 9.6, but 6 is "slightly above" 5.9, while 3 is "near" 2.3. Technically it's correct, but it's something odd that I noticed.

Better?--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

with the final cyclone became extratropical on October 28 - grammar

Done--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just one fully tropical storm developed in the Gulf of Mexico and none in the Caribbean Sea. - why not mention Dottie here?

Done--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

'The storm spawned nine tornadoes in Florida,[17] one of which destroyed 6 mobile homes and damaged 40 others; demolished 6 large chicken houses; and severely damaged a paint plant in Hillsborough County - you should mention the location of the damaging tornado sooner

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mention SS1's peak rainfall in prose. Also, any impacts outside of Florida? (not that you'd be able to check NCDC due to the #trumpshutdown

There was some rainfall (the peak total was in South Carolina), but not really anything in Newspapers.com. I do have ftp versions of Storm Data (1959-1992), but the May 1976 edition doesn't mention impacts in other states--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- Wait, NCDC is down due to the shutdown? Crap, that means I can't do US impact (outside of LexisNexis) for Percy 90. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 17:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly yes >:( ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:56, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

After merging the low merged with a polar trough on July 28 - let's merge!!

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

At 02:00 UTC, the ship M.S. Pointe Allegre observed a barometric pressure of 999 mbar (29.5 inHg) and wind gusts as high as 69 mph (111 km/h).[22] The cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) at 12:00 UTC on July 30. Curving east-northeastward, the system also acquired tropical characteristics, with a transition to Tropical Storm Anna becoming complete about six hours later - did the ship observation lead to the storm being reclassified as tropical? If so, please re-write this section. It all happened on the same day, so the prose could be streamlined.

It was actually why the subtropical depression was upgraded to a subtropical storm--12george1 (talk) 01:03, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

the depression strengthened into a tropical storm on August 7 - mention Belle here, so the name is established when you say it later

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You mentioned $1 million in Canadian damage from Belle in the lead, but not in the section, so make sure you add it here (as well as other Canadian impacts)

Thanks for bringing that up. Don't wanna to be a Canadian Idiot :P --12george1 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

By 06:00 UTC on August 20, the cyclone intensified into a hurricane. - ordinarily I wouldn't ask, but considering the high latitude, could you add how far the storm was from Nova Scotia here? Or perhaps mention the latitude? Candice was one of only a few storms to attain hurricane status north of 40N. Your call

I mentioned the latitude--12george1 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What caused Emmy to turn to the northwest and then back to the east? It's an unusual track

A frontal low pressure system--12george1 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

While moving west-northwestward at about 12 mph (19 km/h), an upper-tropospheric cold low pressure began approaching the wave, causing cloud features associated with the system to become better organized by September 23. - what? It's a little jargony
A depression then developed near the middle of the Gulf of Mexico on September 22. Tracking northward, the depression made landfall in southeastern Louisiana with winds of 30 mph (45 km/h) late on September 24, before quickly dissipating over Mississippi. - any impacts with this depression?

I couldn't find anything in the Storm Data report from NCDC or Newspapers.com. There isn't even a rainfall map for that TD--12george1 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Could you add the relevant refs to the season effects table?

I'm not sure how to. Although that column appears visible on the table template, there doesn't appear to be a parameter for references in the templates for the individual storms--12george1 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All in all a decent article, and just a bit more work needs to be done for me to pass it as a GA. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]