Talk:Climate of Houston

GA Failed: Fixes needed

Based on the criteria at WP:WIAGA, I have had to fail this article's nomination as a Good Article. If the following fixes are made, then please renominate and it should pass:

• Criteria 1 (quality of writing): Needs some copyediting. While the article is sufficiently broad (per criteria 3) it seems jumpy and doesn't flow well. Also, there is a huge section on the summer climate in 1950, and then it stops there? This seems at once excessive and lacking. There are also far too many one-sentance paragraphs that could be fleshed out some. Also, the lead section needs to be expanded some. The lead (see WP:LEAD for more info) should fully summarize the article, several sections in the article aren't mentioned in the lead.
• Criteria 2 (accuracy and referencing): A few sections need extra referencing. For example:
  • Under Snow and Ice: El nino information is unreferenced.
  • Under Spring there is one reference, but several claims made after the reference. If that reference has all of the information, then it should be at the end of the paragraph. If not, the additional claims need to be referenced.
  • Likewise, Precipitation seems to have unreferenced claims.
  • Information about Hurricane Rita are unreferenced.
  • Metrorail information is unreferenced.
• Criteria 3 (broadness): Article seems to hit all major topics. I just think it needs to hit them better (see criteria 1 above)
• Criteria 4 (NPOV): Looks good
• Criteria 5 (stable): Looks good
• Criteria 6 (images): Big problem. The lead image has fair use objections onm its image page, and I agree. The tag applied to the image specifically states that it is used to illustrate an object. A scene of Houston is not an object. A comparable image could be taken by any Wikipedian living in Houston to replace this one.

That's about it. If you feel that this review was incorrectly handled, you may ask for remediation at WP:GA/R. If you have any further questions, feel free to drop me a line at my talk page. If the fixes get made, please feel free to renominate. Happy editing! --Jayron32|talk|contribs 02:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

"Winter is the coolest season in Houston"

Does this strike anyone else as an idiotic sentence? "The coolest season" is the definition of winter. Gzoek 21:12, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

You have an excellent point. It has been reworded. Thegreatdr (talk) 20:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Precip data vs. chart

The article claims May is the rainiest month, but the chart indicates otherwise (June). Is there any way to square these items?

Also, I am putting in a minor edit re TS Allison, based upon the reference cited.

Btw, while air pollution may be an important issue for the city of Houston, it has rather little to do with the Houston's -climate- (absent a fairly extensive discussion of any possible effect of particulates on ground temps). Why is it here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yasha1969 (talk • contribs) 04:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Why The Weather Channel?

Why do people have to use The Weather Channel for climate information? And why use what appears to be part Hobby airport information and part IAH? IAH is Houston's big airport and main weather station. Plus, the record temperatures are not even correct. For instance, at Hobby, the record high for:

• September is 108, set in 2000.
• The record high for February is 89, set in 1940.
• May: 100, 1998.
• June: 102, multiple (and it appears, rather than missing a valid record, "104" was just conjured up here, or confused with the 104 recorded at IAH in June 2009).
• July: 105, 1939.
• October: 97, multiple.
• December: 85, 1933.

Record lows:

• April: 32, 1940 (I guess just a typo.)
• July: 64, 1967 ("45" was measured where???).
• August: 60, 1940.
• September: 46, 1942.
• November: 24, 1938.

Twelve wrong out of 24. Not that it matters, because the TWC source don't tell when their records were set. NWS does though. http://www.weather.gov/climate/local_data.php?wfo=hgx Ufwuct (talk) 20:21, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Extreme Weather

As this year testifies, Houston was also subject to exceptional drought in 1900, 1950-57, and 2010-2011. That should be included under the Extreme Weather section. http://www.srh.weather.gov/rtimages/hgx/KIAH2011plot.png shows how far behind normal IAH station has fallen currently. Paulsuckow (talk) 21:29, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Edit by A.V.: True, but we have to consider the rarity as well as locality. The drought seen in 2011 was very rare, as no year over centuries has ever had drought that bad; only 1789, just one year, came close. The 1900 and 1950s droughts occurred, but over much of the South, and the US, in general.

Weather Charts

For some reason, the weather charts have been taken out of the page.

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Climate of Houston/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Currently a GA nominate. — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 15:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 15:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 11:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)