Talk:Hurricane Alex (2004)

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Contents 1 Accuracy dispute 2 Light Flooding? 3 Merge? 4 fixes 5 Redone 6 Promoted to GA

[edit] Accuracy dispute

I ain't no shit about meteorology so please someone correct any errors. I copy/pasted the info from the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season article and wrote the introduction from that same information. I'm not sure if the information that I wrote on the introduction is correct or not. Thanks in advance! —John | Talk 19:33, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

I'm confused. You are disputing your own accuracy? -- Cyrius|✎ 19:41, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Watch your language theres other people using this talk page. 164.106.201.50 17:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Light Flooding?

Flooding was not light! The water rose 5ft in less than half and hour!

Where? What basin? When? -- Cyrius|✎ 11:36, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The eyewall entered Pamlico Sound and there was some moderate soundside surge of 3-6 feet into Hatteras Village and Okracoke. (reference) I also recall local news reports calling Alex "the ambush" because many islanders were not expecting to see Category 2 conditions. Damage was much lighter than Isabel's or Ophelia's mainly because of the angle of landfall and the size and speed of the storm.

[edit] Merge?

Storm not that notable. The article is pretty shallow. Unless more info can be found, I vote merge. -- Hurricane Eric archive -- my dropsonde 03:29, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Discounting the storm history section and the trivia (which is too trivial even to qualify as trivia), I agree the impact section is too short to justify an article. Only a little, though. Jdorje 03:33, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Keep. This article seems like more than a stub, and it did cause damage and ended up being highly unusual in the end. CrazyC83 21:38, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Well then what do you think about Hurricane Earl (1998)? — jdorje (talk) 20:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Earl doesn't have the problem of being in a season with too long of a seasonal article. This could stay, provided more is added. Hurricanehink 16:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] fixes

This article is linked from Hurricane Dennis which will be featured on the front page tomorrow. So we should try to fix this article up a little bit today. — jdorje (talk) 19:49, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redone

OK, I rewrote the article. Any comments or suggestions? Hurricanehink (talk) 20:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Nothing major I can see, but several small tweaks. I think "Trivia" is should be renamed, Landfall is currently a disambiguation, pipe to Landfall (meteorology) instead, MODIS imagery is available, some missing metric conversions, if there's a photo of any damage in Carolina it would be nice too and so on... All minor things, its B-class in my view (however you know I might be biased there....)--Nilfanion (talk) 21:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, got metric. I emailed someone about the NC photo, so I'm waiting on that (no PD ones). I renamed Trivia to records. I changed landfall's link, but I'm not so sure we should be linking there. The landfall page is pretty bad now. So is it B class? And don't worry about the bias... :) Hurricanehink (talk) 21:39, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I like the way things are shaping up. By the time I escape 2005, the 2004 storm articles will be B-class, like this one.--Nilfanion (talk) 21:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

That's what I'm hoping for. Hurricanehink (talk) 21:58, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Promoted to GA

I would also work on the prose of the Preparations and Impact sections since it doesn't flow too much when you read it. Lincher 14:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)