Talk:2008 Atlantic hurricane season/GA1

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Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 15:54, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "Cuba also received extensive impacts from Gustav, Ike, and Paloma, all three of which made landfall in the country as major hurricanes" - bit of a nitpick, but Paloma weakened to C2 by the time it hit Cuba, although its outer eyewall did strike the country as a C3. Your call how to word

• I'm gonna state that Gustav and Ike were major hurricanes, while Paloma was Cat 2--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "and but 10 percent odds of a below-average season" - wording could be better

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Arthur's article mentions 4 more indirect deaths
• "Steered on a west-northwest or northwest course, Bertha reached hurricane strength around 06:00 UTC on July 7 before undergoing a period of rapid intensification that brought it to its peak as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) later that day." - could you split, or reword to improve the sentence structure?

• Split after July 7.--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• I feel like you could go into a smidge more detail for Bertha's MH, considering how long-lasting it was
• I'd suggest mentioning where Dolly formed in its MH part

• Done--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Make sure you mention Dolly's damage total

• Done--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "In its early stages, mudslides generated by heavy rainfall from the storm caused 17 deaths in Guatemala, while another person drowned while attempting to cross a swollen river" - some problems here. The ref is broken, and the title suggests just 17 deaths. Could you get a new link, and maybe double check this?

• I think I confused it as another death if the title does say 17 deaths. Anyway, I found an NCDC source that says 21 and I think it would be better to use that--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Edouard damage total?

• About $800,000--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• I think you should mention Gustav's record wind gust, which is the strongest associated with a TC in the northern and western hemisphere

• It is mentioned, but its importance is not. So I will do that now. I opted for second highest ever in a TC worldwide (behind only Cyclone Olivia)--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "A tropical wave entered the Atlantic on August 19, leading to the formation of a tropical depression around 00:00 UTC on August 28." - where did it form?

• Where do you think? The Weddle Sea? :P --12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "In the Turks and Caicos Islands, about 95 percent of all houses on Grand Turk Island were damaged, 20 percent of which severely so. An equal number of homes were damaged in South Caicos, including over one-third that were significantly damaged or destroyed. " - you say "an equal number", but the first sentence refers to percentage, so I'd say "an equal proportion of homes" or something

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "Throughout both archipelagos, damage climbed to between $50–200 million." - that's a big range. Is there any set damage total?

• I'm having trouble finding a more specific total--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• " It was absorbed by a larger extratropical low a little over a day later." - considering the event in question did happen a day later, I think you can cut "a little over"

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Kyle rainfall total?

• Done--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• "In the Northeastern United States, people were killed by large waves in Rhode Island." - how many?

• 549,765 :P--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Could you add in Omar's MH section a bit about its track through the Lesser Antilles? Specifically, what islands it passed near

• Omar actually wasn't that close to any islands, except maybe St. Croix. It passed cleanly through the Anegada Passage.--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• In the season summary, you said "Hurricane Paloma, which became the third-strongest November hurricane in recorded history and caused about $900 million in damage to the Cayman Islands and Cuba", but the damage total doesn't add up to this in Paloma's section.

• It was actually $454.4 million--12george1 (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

All in all the article is in pretty good shape. None of my issues should be too difficult to address. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:54, 6 March 2020 (UTC)