Talk:Hurricane Gordon (1994)

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Contents 1 Retirement in 2006 2 Removal of "Haiti's tragic hurricane history" from article 3 Beware of possible changes during the hurricane re-analysis with this storm 4 Todo 5 Better pic 6 Todo again 7 Pic

[edit] Retirement in 2006

I know this puts bad news on someone, but I do hope the name Gordon is retired in 2006...let's get it out of their misery, even if it does far less devastation than in 1994! CrazyC83 23:10, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Retire it commemoratively. The WMO need to take some legitimate heat for their idiocy. They need to redeem themselves.

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 18:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of "Haiti's tragic hurricane history" from article

While Hurricane Gordon could certainly be included in the subject of Haiti's tragic hurricane history, I dont believe that it should be included in the Hurricane Gordon article as it does not directly relate to information on Hurricane Gordon. Perhaps this would be better noted on Haiti's Wikipedia page. I have updated the topic to more accurately reflect the devastation in Haiti that was caused by Hurricane Gordon, and removed the specific references to the other storms. (10/10/2005) Fumetsu

Agreed

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 22:38, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Beware of possible changes during the hurricane re-analysis with this storm

A number of meteorologists believe that the system that ejected out of the Caribbean into the southwest Atlantic and the subtropical cyclone that formed in the Florida Straits were two different systems; both are currently considered one system named Gordon. There was a brief time period where one could follow the two different low centers. Just an FYI, in case it is ever decided to split the track of Gordon into two separate tracks in the next decade during the hurricane re-analysis. Thegreatdr 17:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Very interesting. Yea, looking at satellite images, it looks like Gordon 1 dissipated near Cuba while Gordon 2 was developing. Time will tell, and that would be cool if that happened. I'm always for getting more storms in a season after the fact. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Based on my observations using the GIBBS imagry, it appears that Gordon was one storm. At one point north of Cuba, it does appear as though the system has two LLCCs. However, looking farther back, there doesn't seem to be any other systems active in the southwestern Atlantic until Gordon gets there. Once Gordon gets there, it seems to interact with a trough moving off the east coast of the United States. That trough shows up quite clearly in this reverse infrared image as that smaller black mass off the Carolinas north of Gordon's outer bands. Gordon had a broad circulation as it was and when it hit Cuba, weakened, and interated with that trough [1], the circulation became elongated from the northeast to the southwest [2]. This caused the storm to appear as though it had two centers. When the trough became less of an influence [3], Gordon's circulation consolidated [4]. That is my hypothesis, based on my analysis of the satellite imagry. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 22:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Todo

Good article. More info should be merged into the haiti section from the impact section. Also, references are needed. Jdorje 21:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I dropped it to start class. I don't think it's quite organized enough yet. Hurricanehink 18:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

That's because our standards are going up! This was B-class when I first assessed it. But I don't disagree with Start-class. — jdorje (talk) 05:18, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

True, and it's always good when standards go up. Hurricanehink 00:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Better pic

I added a GIBBS image to replace the other, really close up one. I know, GIBBS isn't exactly the best, but at least you can see the whole storm and get an idea on where it's at. If you have a problem with it, just revert it. ;)→Cyclone1→ 19:01, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Todo again

More everything!. Storm05 18:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pic

Where did that close-up, NASA pic go? That was the best one we had. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 00:56, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Uhh... I posted above saying where I took it off. It was waaaaaay too close, so I posted a new GIBBS image. Now, my pic has been replaced with a color image (which personally can't compare to either of the previous pics.) So, that's where it went. Feel free to put it back in the article. →Cyclone1→ 22:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)