# Talk:Hurricane Olga

It is an alright article, but it needs some work. Some basic aspects needed include more lede and metric conversions. However, there is a much more serious problem. The article should use operational and post-analysis data correctly; the article fails to mention that Olga officially (based on best track) became a tropical storm on the 24th. Additionally, it says the extratropical storm formed on the 22nd, which is false. More information on its origins would be nice. The last sentence of the first paragraph of the storm history should be removed, and instead a comparison between operational and best track data, including the uncertainties of its structure, should be added. There's no need to link to the NHC so many times. Writing is awkward in several places, so please give it a nice copyedit. Is there a meteorological reason it executed the double loop? For exact times, if they are even needed in the first place, they should be UTC, not EDT. Fix link to Quicksat. has re-developed at the center - please re-write. It seems that the storm history has a lot of prose, but it doesn't say terribly much; the third paragraph has some redundancies. Preps and impact isn't bad, given how little the storm did. --Hurricanehink (talk) 17:05, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Hurricane Olga (2001)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: 12george1 (talk) 19:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Lead
"The fifteenth named storm, ninth and final hurricane of the 2001 season, Olga formed as a subtropical cyclone on November 24 and meandered westward where it reached hurricane status on November 26." - This seems like too many clauses in one sentence. Let me explain, you are talking about it is respect to the season, then adding when Olga formed, and then when it became a hurricane, all in one sentence. Also it seems that you are missing some vital information in that sentence; I think that it should be split and worded like this: "The fifteenth named storm, ninth and final hurricane of the 2001 season, Olga formed as a subtropical cyclone 900 mi (1,450 km) east-southeast of Bermuda on November 24. After acquiring tropical characteristics later that day, Olga meandered westward, and eventually reached hurricane status on November 26." Also link mi and km if you choose to the it this way.
"Olga’s winds peaked at 90 mph (150 km/h)..." - Link mph and km/h
"...the storm turned southwestward and weakening back into a tropical storm. Olga then dissipated as a tropical cyclone on December 4 east of the Bahamas." - So Olga did not weaken further to a tropical depression, re-intensify into a tropical storm, weaken back to a tropical depression again, and then dissipate?
"It was a relatively rare storm to exist in December, which is outside of the normal hurricane season." - Added Atlantic between "normal" and "hurricane", because in another basin, such as the Western Pacific, Olga would not have been outside the season.
Meteorological history
Apparently Olga had the second largest gale diameter of an Atlantic hurricane, per Template:Largest Atlantic Hurricanes. I see that it is stated in the second paragraph of the Meteorological history "...and the previously large wind field had contracted.", but it does not, but should, mention at the of the wind field or at least that it was the second largest of an Atlantic hurricane.
I'm a little leery in putting that in, since the only source is some giant document listing wind sizes. I can't find any good sources that say that explicitly, and I'm sure if it were true, it would appear in its TCR. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
You might want to think about rearranging or merging some paragraphs of the MH, especially the last two paragraphs, since most other tropical cyclone articles have three, if not four, paragraphs of Meteorological history.
I changed the middle ones. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
"...and on November 27 Olga attained peak winds of 90 mph (150 km/h)." - The minimum barometric pressure is missing, which is 973 mbar (hPa; 28.73 inHg).
Bah, the pressure is useless, but I'll include it anyway :P --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Preparations and impact
In this section, I see some inconsistency with units of measurement: 12 feet (3.7 meters), 15–22 feet (3.7-6.7 meters), 12 ft (3.7 m); either abbreviate or spell out all three.
Good catch. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Delink Bahamas and Bermuda; also there are earlier occasions in the article where Atlantic and Cuba can be wikilinked.
OK. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
References
Although apparently you don't need the references in last name, first name format, you should at least be consistent. Reference #1 and #9 read "Avila, Lixion" and "Dorst, Neil", which should be "Lixion Avila" and "Neil Dorst", respectively.
Ah, ok, I copied them from an earlier version. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Reference #9 has an incorrect date (2009), the actual date is 2010-01-21. On that same reference, wikilink "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
Fixed, thanks. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Summary
I have finished my review, its a nice, but not yet "good" article. Just fix or address the issues above, and I will pass this article according to the GA criteria. Good luck, --12george1 (talk) 21:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the review! I believe I've addressed everything. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  17:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Well it looks like you have done or address everything that I requested. So in its current state, I will be passing this article as a GA. Well done, --12george1 (talk) 18:45, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

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Since hurricane teddy was one of the largest hurricanes, with gale force winds extending " Just before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone, the diameter of gale-force winds measured up to 850 mi (1,370 km) across from northeast to southwest, making Teddy one of the largest Atlantic hurricanes on record.[23] " -Hurricane Teddy Article. So it should be 2nd place which will knock sandy to 3rd place.
Link to the NHC hurricane teddy advisory for September 22: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2020/al20/al202020.fstadv.042.shtml?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ColinMorgan 56 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 24 September 2020 (UTC) 

The Tropical Cyclone Report shows that Hurricane Sandy was bigger than Hurricane Olga, Showing that the hurricane at one point had gale force winds extending up to 870 nautical miles (1001 miles), which is bigger than that of Hurricane Olga. -Shift674- (talk) 18:09, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

That's true. The NHC's records shows that Sandy had a max gale-force diameter of 1,000 nautical miles, which is equivalent to 1,150 miles or 1,850 kilometers. Even modeling studies done in the aftermath of Sandy reaffirms this size. I'll make the changes. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 22:39, 10 October 2020 (UTC)