Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season/archive1

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Timeline of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season

Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season/archive1

Nominator(s): 12george1 (talk) 04:34, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season was the third most active season in recorded history. With a large number of tropical cyclones, impact was widespread and there were some interesting systems. Felix threatened the East Coast of the United States once and Bermuda twice. Luis was a strong hurricane that brought destruction to the Lesser Antilles that rivaled Hurricane Hugo. Marilyn dealt similar amounts of damage to the Lesser Antilles as Luis. Opal brought severe impact to the Gulf Coast of the United States. Finally, Roxanne's bizarre path in the Gulf of Mexico allowed the storm to produce extensive flooding in Mexico. Personally, I believe this timeline satisfies the requirements of a featured list. Enjoy!--12george1 (talk) 04:34, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from Golbez (talk):
- "Although Hurricane Allison formed on June 2, 1995,[3] the season officially began on June 1" This is an odd construction, is it common in the featured hurricane timeline articles? It seems better to just say "The season officially began on June 1, with the first named storm forming just the next day" or something. --Golbez (talk) 19:22, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - I did something similar to your suggestion.--12george1 (talk) 22:04, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from TropicalAnalystwx13:
- Hurricane season begins and ends at 4z, not 0z.

I think I will just say "The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins", which is what you did in the more recent timelines.--12george1 (talk) 02:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- "Tropical Storm Allison intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane. Simultaneously, Allison additionally attains peak intensity with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 987 mbar (29.1 inHg)." - you could combine these two sentences (and other instances throughout the timeline) for better flow.

Better?--12george1 (talk) 02:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- "Tropical Storm Allison makes another landfall near Saint Marks, Florida with winds of 65 mph (105 km/h)." - could we use numbers for clarity? This is the second landfall.

I don't understand.--12george1 (talk) 02:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- Nothing important, but try to be consistent with wording. If you use "area of low pressure", use that for all of them. Also, no need to say it formed from a tropical wave. It formed from a low that developed along the wave axis.

Let me fix that "tropical wave" thing. Only mentioned it like 14 times :P --12george1 (talk) 02:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- We need a lot more reference points. You can take the latitude and longitude values as provided by the preliminary reports, plug them into Google Earth, and get distances relative to specific cities to add to the timeline.

TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 01:54, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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