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Timeline of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season

Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season/archive1

Nominator(s): TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 00:24, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season was more eventful than the years that preceded it, to say the least. It was the costliest since 2012 and the deadliest since 2008, and featured more tropical storm landfalls on the United States than any season since 2008. It was perhaps most known for Hurricane Matthew, which caused hundreds of deaths and billions in damage along its path in October. After some work, I believe this timeline is now ready to be reviewed against the featured list criteria. :) TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 00:24, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Dudley

"was also the deadliest since that year." Presumably deadliest in number of deaths but you should say so.
- Reworded this sentence. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The season began on 1 June and the first of the season was on 12 January? This sounds like a contradiction.
- No contradiction. Alex formed January 12. The season officially began on June 1. In other words, Alex was quite a bit ahead of schedule. :) TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think "The first cyclone, Alex, developed on January 12, before the official start of the season" would be clearer. Dudley Miles (talk) 14:42, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"In June, tropical storms Colin and Danielle became the earliest third and fourth named storms, respectively, on record." I do not understand this.
- Colin, the third tropical storm of the year, formed earlier than any past seasons' third tropical storm. Same for Danielle. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your wording here is clearer than in the article. Dudley Miles (talk) 14:42, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Hermine moved ashore the coastline of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on September 2, ending the record hurricane drought that began in the state after 2005's Hurricane Wilma." Does this mean that no hurricane hit Florida for 11 years?
- Correcto. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hurricane Matthew caused $15 billion and 603 deaths. No change needed, but is this only notable in the cost but not the number of deaths?
- Well, it's notable so I mentioned it accordingly. In terms of assigning a ranking like damage, no, Matthew was nowhere near the deadliest (over 27,500 deaths occurred in a hurricane in 1780). TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot find anything to query in the timeline or notes. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:40, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the comments! TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support and a couple of suggestions. Dudley Miles (talk) 14:42, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by 12george1

You linked Tropical Storm Danielle, even though it doesn't have an article. If you did that with all of them, I'd be fine with it, but there's no link for storms like Fiona. Just delink Danielle. The other issue is that for Reference 2, the publisher indicates that it was the National Weather Service. However, it is not the American National Weather Service. It appears there is no article for the National Weather Service of the Cayman Islands. So I think you should either insert "|location=George Town, Cayman Islands", or added "Cayman Islands" in parenthesis after National Weather Service. I have no issues otherwise and will switch to support after these are taken care of--12george1 (talk) 15:44, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed the links and added Cayman Island to the ref. Thanks for the review! TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 03:55, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I see that you decided to link all storms--12george1 (talk) 00:44, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 19:51, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments minor quibbles.

No need to link major geographical entities such as United States.
Otto is piped to Hurricane Otto (2016) which then redirects back to Hurricane Otto, suggest the middle man is cut out.
Danielle suffers a similar piped redirect fate, as does "landfalls" which could simply be landfalls.
" since 1938 and " easter egg links, would be better to say "since the 1938 season..." and link that. A few of these...
" Hurricane Alex weakens" and next sentence " Tropical Storm Alex", shouldn't we say that this at some point Alex was upgraded to a TS?

Otherwise a very nice piece of work. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delinked USA, fixed all the piped redirects, and changed the easter egg links. Alex transitioned from a subtropical storm to a hurricane (all hurricanes are tropical by nature), so I just noted that it gained fully tropical characteristics upon becoming a hurricane. Thanks for the review. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 00:11, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support my concerns addressed, good to go. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:51, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting. --Pres N 01:13, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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