Talk:1976 Atlantic hurricane season/GA1

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Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 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.

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]

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.

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

'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

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]

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

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

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

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]

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]