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Timeline of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season

Timeline of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): ''Flux55'' (talk), Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 00:28, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

This timeline was created by Flux55, a promising new user who has already done a lot of good work. 1991 was a quiet year for Atlantic hurricanes, but don't tell that to anyone in New England! Hurricane Bob caused extensive damage and over a dozen fatalities when it scraped up the East Coast and plowed into Rhode Island at Category 2 strength—it's still the most recent New England hurricane landfall. Also of note was the infamous Perfect Storm, which became a large, powerful, and damaging nor'easter after it ate Hurricane Grace for dinner... and then itself became a hurricane before making landfall in Canada as a weakened system! I'm proud of the work Flux and I put into this, and we look forward to the community's feedback. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 00:28, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Comment A spot check found multiple distance and location Statements which are not stated or supported by the referenced source. If a TCR or other reliable secondary source does not mention something the statement needs to be removed. Drdpw (talk) 02:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Drdpw: I understand where you're coming from. I was attempting to follow the standards of the Timeline of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season (which, according to the featured list log, is the most recent season timeline to be promoted to featured status). There, every single event in a system's life—be it formation, change in category, landfall, peak intensity, or dissipation—is given a location compared to a city, island, or other landmark, even if such comparisons were not explicitly drawn in the TCRs for those systems. I have also observed this being the case, from a spot-check of a few timeline details, with the 2020 ATL and 2018 EPAC timelines. If removal of the details in question from the 1991 ATL timeline is required, then I am willing to do so, but I was under the impression that I had been following recent best practice. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 19:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I think I've asked this before and was told it was a matter of WP:CALC to measure the great circle distance between two points, using the NHC's coordinates for storm location. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 22:35, 4 February 2024 (UTC)