Talk:Hurricane Gordon (2006)/GA1

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Reviewer: 12george1 (talk) 03:47, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Hurricane Gordon was the first hurricane to directly impact the Azores since 1992." - Re-word to "the first tropical cyclone", because neither Bonnie or Charley were at hurricane intensity when they impacted the Azores. Meaning that the next most recent hurricane to directly impact the Azores was likely Hurricane Emmy in 1976.
- Got it. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"The eighth tropical storm, third hurricane and first major hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season," - Add a comma after "third hurricane"
- Whoops. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"reaching its peak intensity of 120 mph (190 km/h)" - Watch the conversion, the infobox says (195 km/h).
- Lousy convert template... --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Further north, the storm brought warm air to Ireland and the United Kingdom, contributing to record warm temperatures in the latter country." - So all Gordon did in Ireland and the UK was bring warmer air into those countries?
- No, but the impact was rather similar to Spain, and I thought record warm temperatures was a neat thing to mention in the lede. Also, you neglect to mention how the subsequent sentence mentions the 120,000 power outages in Northern Ireland. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"On September 12, the storm slowed down, the storm turned toward the north through a weakness in the subtropical ridge created by Florence." - This sentence doesn't read very well, mostly because "the storm" "the storm". BTW, it seems kinda redundant to use "the storm" more than once in a sentence; you could easily replaced "the storm" with "Gordon".
- Brainfart on my part. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"during which eye decreased in size and the eyewall convection weakened." - Missing the word 'the' between "which" and "eye". Yesterday, I accidentally said to put the word 'the' between "eye" and "decreased".
~~I cannot finished the review now; I will complete it sometime tomorrow.--12george1 (talk) 03:47, 22 May 2011 (UTC)~~ I have finished the review. BTW, I messed up when I wrote one of my issues (the one directly above).[reply]
- OK. I've addressed what you've said so far. Thanks for reviewing this! --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Part 2

Kind of a stupid question, but why is the section header "Storm history" and not "Meteorological history" like all of the other tropical cyclone articles?
- Hah, random indeed! --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"it is estimated Gordon intensified into a hurricane early on September 13." - Add the word 'that' between "estimated" and "Gordon".
- Yea, I can handle that. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Gordon's resiliency presented a rare threat – the first since Hurricane Charley in 1992 – to the Azores," - It would actually be Hurricane Bonnie, not Charley. The former affected the Azores a few days after Charley did.
- The source does say Charley, which refers to the threat of a hurricane hitting the island chain (which Charley threatened to do, but not Bonnie). --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Its motion became just south of due east, causing the strongest winds to remain south of the center." - This doesn't make any sense; because Gordon moved south of due east, its strongest were south of the center? I didn't think that the direction in which a tropical cyclone moves may cause it to become asymmetrical.
- Err, "center" should be "islands". I fixed it. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"The two westernmost islands were placed under a red alert," - What are the two westernmost islands of the Azores?
- M'k. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"The club's media center was briefly evacuated," - What Club? I didn't think that the Ryder Cup was a club. Did you mean the cup's media center?
- Got it. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On the NHC discussion references, with more than one author, it only shows the last names. Reference #4 says "Mainelli/Beven", but #15 says "Alex Morales and Margot Habiby".
- I changed the news one. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There is a minor typo on the accessdates for references 4 and 5. The accessdates read "201-05-03"; while it is just simply a 1 missing, that is a difference of over 1,800 years. Imagine that, a Roman Emperor read those two pages.
- Actually, I used my time machine. It wasn't Septimius Severus. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On reference #12, the author is "Daniel Pasch"; either you meant to put Richard Pasch or Daniel Brown.
- Oops ;) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, this seems good enough to pass. BTW, the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season is very close to being eligible for Featured Topic. The only thing in your way would be the List of storms in the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Congratulations, --12george1 (talk) 21:58, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]