Talk:1887 Atlantic hurricane season/GA1

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Nominator: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 06:29, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 06:16, 27 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

"It is also worthy of note that the volume of recorded activity was documented largely without the benefit of modern technology." - can this be simplified?
"Later, while the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project did not add or remove any cyclones from the official hurricane database (HURDAT), the group lengthened the tracks of the sixth and fifteen storms and upgraded the latter to a hurricane. " - it should be reworded - "Later, the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project lengthened... although they did not add or remove any cyclones."

" Later, the sixth, seventh, and eighth storms caused two, more than one, and seven fatalities, respectively, nearly all offshore Newfoundland" - "The next three hurricanes all passed offshore Newfoundland over a two-week period, together causing at least ten deaths." You can probably skip the mention of the Bahamas and Carolinas since there weren't that many impacts there, and it focuses the narrative a bit.

"In October, at least $10,000 in damage occurred in Louisiana due to the thirteenth storm, while the sixteenth cyclone inflicted at least $7,000 in damage after sinking a ship and drowned two people after another vessel capsized." - maybe instead focus on there being six storms in the month first, before going into details? It seems a bit rushed for a busy month, and I feel like the lead could go into a bit more detail, considering it was such an active season.

"The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project did not add or remove any storms from the 1996 reanalysis of the season by meteorologists José Fernández-Partagás and Henry F. Diaz, who both added the first and third systems." were Partagas/Dias part of the reanalysis project? The wording is weirdly worded and a bit confusing.
"when the track for the seventeenth system storm begins north of Puerto Rico" - the present tense felt unusual to me

" Rapidly accelerating, the system became extratropical east of Ireland late on September 4." - east of Ireland is England/Wales

There have been a lot of merge discussions of late, and I have to ask, is 1887 Halloween tropical storm worth keeping? There is a lot of duplicate information between the articles, and it doesn't seem like there is much of a notability reason for keeping that tropical storm article. Plus, it might not even have been a tropical storm. The whole 1887 article is under 7,000 words, so it's not like it would make the article too long.