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Reviewer: Yellow Evan (talk · contribs) 19:04, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]


  • "which caused a total of over $50.205 billion (2018 USD) in damages" - I feel like this would be more impressive if you just said "which caused over $50 billion in damages". That's stronger, and just as accurate.
  • Oddly enough, I thought you'd say something about that if you were the reviewer. Yet I didn't fix it until now :P --12george1 (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Leslie has four sentences in the lead, and Michael has three. That seems wrong, and not in a good way
  • Is it acceptable if they both have three?--12george1 (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "With the formation of Oscar on October 26, the season is the first season on record in which seven storms were subtropical at some point in their durations. " - this seems trivial after a paragraph about storm impacts
  • Mind splitting "Pre-season outlooks" section into two paragraphs?
  • You mention Alberto and Oscar twice in the "Season summary" section. Could you reorganize the paragraphs so you don't have to mention them twice?
  • You link to 2008 AHS in the image caption, but not in the text - "becoming the first time since 2008 that four named storms were active at the same time"
  • Why would anyone care about the 2008 AHS? :P --12george1 (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "On October 9, Nadine developed in the eastern tropical Atlantic. After 15 days as a tropical cyclone, on October 13, Leslie transitioned into a powerful extratropical cyclone approximately 120 mi (195 km) west of the Iberian Peninsula, before making landfall soon afterward. A two-week period of inactivity ensued as the season began to wind down. " - the Nadine part feels really out of place.
  • Sorry to be a pain, but does the ACE include subtropical cyclones? I forget
  • Three times in Alberto, you mention wind values "up to", as well as the rain in Cuba being "up to 14.41 in". If it recorded 14.41, it wouldn't be "up to", it would just be 14.41 in. You do the same thing elsewhere in the article
  • Link for "St. George Island Bridge"?
  • "However, as the system moved into a more favorable environment" - this is for Debby. Maybe mention the southwest track into the more favorable environment?
  • "until dissipating over the British Isles on August 19.[43] Heavy rains fell in portions of the United Kingdom on August 19" - maybe instead of saying the date twice, just say "that day" the 2nd time?
  • "making Florence easily the rainiest tropical cyclone on record in North Carolina" - why the "easily"?
  • Easily in comparison to the previous recordholder, Floyd. But I think that might be a bit too much detail for this article. So I will just remove "easily"--12george1 (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "At 06:00 UTC on September 3, a tropical depression about 90 mi (140 km) southeast of Key Largo, Florida, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Gordon just three hours later." - there's a missing word
  • Helene impacts in Cabo Verde?
  • I found some from a news source in Portuguese--12george1 (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also w/ Helene - "Another extratropical storm to the southwest absorbed the remnants of Helene on September 22." TCR says 9/18
  • Could you redo Kirk's section so the first paragraph is MH, and the second is the impacts?
  • Leslie's 2nd paragraph could use some love. You mention the drift southwestward, then you say "For the next few days, Leslie continued to drift northeastward without much change in intensity". I think you mean northwestward here? Either way, you should mention the change in direction, and allude why the track was so erratic.
  • Actually, I did mean northeastward (eventually, but I skipped part of it). I clarified the changes in direction, including the meteorological explanations--12george1 (talk) 04:27, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Late on October 13, Leslie became extratropical roughly 120 mi (195 km) west-northwest of Lisbon, " - I'd add "Portugal" here
  • You should add when Michael entered the Gulf of Mexico. Also, add where the storm made landfall
  • Michael's effects in Cuba?
  • "killed at least 15 fatalities occurred across the region"
  • "Oscar continued to strengthen as it accelerated southward" - are you sure about that direction?
  • "A small eye briefly became evident on satellite imagery late on October 28" - was it that brief? You mention it reached peak intensity two days later, so wouldn't the eye have lasted two more days?

All in all, good work all around. Just some minor issues here and there that shouldn't be hard to fix. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:38, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The actual reason I held off this was I was waiting for some of the issues regarding level of detail at Talk:2005 Atlantic hurricane season to get ironed out (this has more detail than that article and is longer than said season in length. YE Pacific Hurricane 05:53, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanking for stepping up and reviewing this, Hurricanehink--12george1 (talk) 04:27, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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