Talk:Great Havana Hurricane of 1846

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[edit] Inaccuracies

Sigh...where do I begin? For starters, why don't we try finding some sources for the "facts" section. Jdorje 18:53, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

How about sources in general that are online? I am getting to hate that encyclopedia of hurricanes. Not all of us have that, and it hard to verify that information we (at least I) don't have. Hurricanehink 19:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Anyone still opposed? Hurricanehink 21:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Opposed to a merge? Yes, I don't think this one should be merged. By all accounts (I did a quick google print search) this was a monolithic storm, and satisfies both notability and quantity-of-info criteria. My complaint is just about the sloppy writing and research. Jdorje 22:14, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, that was meant for another article. As you can probably see based on your watchlist, I'm going through the articles and adding List of notable Atlantic hurricanes, and that was meant for another storm. You are completely right, this is an important storm based on what's written. I still, however, want some online souces... Hurricanehink 22:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Strongly opposed to any merge. Sure, the information isn't great but it isn't a very well-known storm anyway and information will be scarce for historic hurricanes. It is far and away article-worthy. CrazyC83 04:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 917 mbar

What's the source for the 917 mbar pressure? Is it from the book reference? The online reference given does not seem useful since it links to a directory of PDF files; what am I supposed to do here? I find the 917 mbar hard to reconcile with the 1900 Galveston Hurricane where a measruement of 930? mbar was considered "obviously in error" - how can these two "facts" be explained? — jdorje (talk) 02:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

The directory of PDF files gives the information from the article. When I added that information, I just linked that at the bottom so I wouldn't have to link every last page for every little detail. Just to let you know, the pressure link is located here. Hurricanehink 02:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)