Talk:Hurricane Gloria

message: The article's almost there, just needs a little more info and a better introduction (no need to mention exact dates, but we should know where it struck!) Jdorje 21:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Todo: Fill in each of the sections. This is the next one to get a full revision, a la Floyd or Georges. Hurricanehink 22:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Still working on it. Here's some links for me to use so I don't lose it. This and this. Hurricanehink 02:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK this one's done. Just to let you know, I couldn't find any pictures of damage from this storm online that are not copyrighted. Hurricanehink 16:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Forget about that. Should there be any other pictures, and if yes, of what? I know this is B class, but how much more until A class? Hurricanehink 16:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's needed for A class? Hurricanehink 01:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question.  Maybe an aftermath section should be split off?  And, the article says one person died in New York state but the deaths table lists nothing for NY. — jdorje (talk) 02:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, the deaths are a problem. Some sources say 11, some say 8 (more say 8). This site says there was one in New York and one in New Hampshire. The aftermath should be easy. This site shows disaster area information (so I don't lose it). Hurricanehink 02:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo

message: Can we have a deaths-by-state table? — jdorje (talk) 06:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope ;) Too many sites I have found gave conflicting sources, including the total number of deaths (11 in TCR vs. 8 elsewhere). The TCR gave a by-state death toll, but because it was lowered for other things (including MWR and other sites I've found), it's a little hard to find death totals per-state. Hurricanehink 12:41, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deaths 

message: right|thumb|Gloria near peak intensity
Someone on the FAC subpage that there should be a picture of the storm at peak intensity. That is a little hard to do, but there are a few options.
*- Visible Full-Earth image 9 hours after peak
*- IR of storm at peak
*- 1985 MWR (PDF)- go down to Gloria section- Visible close up of storm 10 hours after peak
I personally vote for the third one. If anyone has anything better, post it here. Hurricanehink 20:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That...might...be better than what's there now. — jdorje (talk) 23:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually like the photo up there now as a better one, but not in the infobox. By all means keep the landfall one in the article, but I believe that the image shown directly under the highlighted text declaring a hurricanes strength should, well, show it at that strength, or at least as close to it as possible. If someone extracts that image from the PDF, or alternately the IR, and uses it in the infobox, I'll gladly support, you guys do have quite an article here. -Mask  17:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone have a way to make the PDF image brighter? It's pretty dark, and if it was brightened, you would be able to tell that Florida is located to its west and Cuba to its south. Hurricanehink 19:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, we could fiddle with the gamma level.  We'd have to extract it from the PDF first though.  And since when is the MWR public domain? — jdorje (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a .gov site. Extracting is easy. If you want, I'll upload the image, and we'll decide if it works or not. Hurricanehink 20:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just because NHC is a .gov site does not make everything on it public domain.  The MWR is not published by the NHC, they just have an extract on their site.  You can see more info and links at Monthly Weather Review.  It seems quite clear that this is not public domain, and that it cannot be uploaded to wikipedia commons. — jdorje (talk) 20:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But it's written by Robert Case, a government employee, and is also followed directly by National Hurricane Center, NWS, NOAA. I understand it is not published by the NHC, but given that it's at a government website and with National Hurricane Center in plain words at the top, I don't see how it's not public domain. Hurricanehink 20:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. — jdorje (talk) 21:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, well, I just ran across http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/landsea_bio.html which includes excerpts from the MWR, and the disclaimer at the top says these copyrights are owned by the AMS, not by the author, and would therefore not necessarily be in the public domain. — jdorje (talk) 05:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you serious? Great... Well, should we ask an admin or something? Hurricanehink 12:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, we should ask someone.  We should also try to find the original source of the picture - the MWR probably got it from NASA or something, and if we find the original it'll probably be higher-resolution and certainly free. — jdorje (talk) 22:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

text: So should that pic be added in there somewhere? Hurricanehink 21:33, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I put it in the infobox, and moved the picture that was there to the Preparations section. I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to move the old infobox pic to the New England Impact section, and move the precipitation map to the Aftermath. Thoughts? Titoxd(?!? - help us) 21:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pic 

message: Congratulations, everyone, we have another one. —Cuiviénen,  Monday, 3 April 2006 @ 12:05 (UTC)
:Sweet. I guess my work paid off. Good work everyone! Hurricanehink 15:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  FA 

message: I've removed this addition from the article, as it seems mostly irrelevant:
:During his  1988 Presidential campaign (and in his autobiography Shout it from the Housetops, Republican candidate Pat Robertson told a story about how, thanks to the power of his prayers, he had recently convinced God to reroute an unnamed hurricane away from the  CBN studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The change in the hurricane's course allowed Robertson to continue preaching the Gospel on CBN without interruption. The hurricane in question happened to be Gloria. After Gloria veered away from Virginia, it hit New England hard. One of the states which suffered damage and fatalities was New Hampshire, where the nation's first Presidential Primary takes place. Robertson did not do well in this primary. ."Pat Robertson's contradictory theology: God won't stop a tsunami -- but might respond to Gay Days with an earthquake"
What does everyone else think? Titoxd(?!?) 02:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Get rid of it. No need for it. Hurricanehink (talk) 11:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article 

message: Don't know where to add it, but interesting indeed:
"Trapped birds are sometimes seen circling in the eye, and ships trapped in a hurricane report hundreds of exhausted birds resting on their decks. The landfall of hurricane Gloria (1985) on southern New England was accompanied by thousands of birds in the eye."  
Titoxd(?!?) 22:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birds 

message: When gauging the impact of $900 million in damage in 1985 to what it might be today given the inflation of recent times, rounding the value of the damages to the nearest billion overstates it immensely, making it look like $1.6 billion in 2005 is worth $2 billion in 2006!  (The dollar has done terribly in recent days, but there wasn't 25% inflation last year; people would be rioting in the streets!)  I added three decimal digits to the "inflated" figure so that it is in millions like the original number.  OTOH, if the "900 million" only has one digit of accuracy, this number should probably be rounded to "1,700 million", so if someone wants to do that, go ahead and change "inflated" to "1". Heian-794 12:50, 15 March 2007 
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INCORRECT ARTICLE:
The original copy of this article needed correction. All the information about New England impacts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts was incorrect.Where the article states: "Gloria did not pass close enough to Rhode Island and Massachusetts to cause significant damage" is incorrect.The article goes on to correctly tally dmagae in Maine....obviously the storm went through Massachusetts to reach Maine.Gloria's afore-mentioned lop-sided windfield was exaggerated in the eastern sector which is the very sector which tore across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts (especially the area just west and north of Buzzards Bay).Many of the numerous wind reports of hurricane force winds came from the southeastern New England area.Long term power failures in eastern and southeastern Massachusetts kept much information from making a true picture of what had happened a particular problem especially noted after hurricane Bob (1991) in the same vicinity when early reports of moderate damage later gave way to reports and severe damage. Gloria was experienced as a full category one hurricane in all of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
This article SHOULD read:
There was some significant wind damage in Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts to roofs,some of which blew off (South Kingston,Rhode Island and New Bedford,Massachusetts) and many trees were downed. Some coastal towns were without power up to five days (Westport,Massachusetts). Inland areas saw a considerable amount of vegetation damage,especially the Worcester,Massachusetts area.
Winds gusted to 112mph at New London,Connecticut,104mph at Padanaram,Massachusetts,and over 90mph at New Bedford,Massachusetts.Estimated gusts around 100 mph occured in the Worcester,Massachusetts location.
Sarahbishopv 02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Value of damages 

message: The article mentions Blue Hill, Connecticut as a redlink, but I didn't find evidence of such a place on Google. Did you mean Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts? Or is it Blue Hills (Bloomfield, Connecticut)? Art LaPella (talk) 03:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue Hill 

message: Apparently the requirements for FA in 2006 were below the current GA standard.  I added pub years to the references, and fixed a broken ref link.  If this was a problem, there could be additional issues within this article.  Thegreatdr (talk) 16:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication year issue resolved 

message: :File:Sunday Newsday Sept. 29 1985 Gloria Cover.jpg is a non-free image being used in this article. It present lacks a non-free use rationale and it seems questionable to me whether a valid one could be written. In particular, use of the image seems to fail non-free content criterion #8:
"Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding."
The image does not convey any information which cannot be (and is not) conveyed by a sentence of text, and the presence of multiple informative free images in the article makes the use of this file even less essential.
I have tagged the image for deletion under speedy deletion criterion F6 (missing non-free use rationale), and the image may be deleted in seven days if a valid rationale is not provided. If I have overlooked a way in which this image does "significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic", I hope it will be pointed out during the seven-day waiting period. -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:37, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  File:Sunday Newsday Sept. 29 1985 Gloria Cover.jpg 

message: "This is the second lowest pressure ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane that never reached Category 5 status, only second to Hurricane Opal of the 1995 season." - this was in the article, but it was unsourced. The above backs this up, but it cites Wikipedia, so we can't use that. I'll add it back in if I can get a source that states it explicitly that doesn't use us. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  22:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed a typo related to its 919 hPa central pressure.  Allen and Camille had lower central pressures measured by recon, but they weren't in the north Atlantic ocean.  Fixed it.  I'm surprised this issue hadn't been caught before, considering the layers of review it went through and the amount of knowledge existing within the project.  Also, why is the lead so small?  Is it a factor of how long ago it went through featured article review?  Thegreatdr (talk) 01:04, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The bit about lowest pressure was me being a n00b and misunderstanding the MWR. I only added that a day or two ago. As for the lede, I'll expand it later. I'm redoing the article a bit, since I don't think it would pass the current FA standards. Rather than waiting for a featured article review, I figured I'd get a lead on it and work on improving it (similar to my work earlier in the year to improve Hurricane Keith, and my efforts to improve the articles on Hurricane Mitch). --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  03:53, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Let me know if you need any pointers, nooB.  We're here to help.  ;)  Thanks for the improvement.  Thegreatdr (talk) 00:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, thanks. I mostly wanted to improve the article enough that it wouldn't cause an FARC immediately. There is still some work to be done with the article, but it's in much better shape than it was a few days ago. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  03:57, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New todo 

message: As we near the 30 year anniversary, I was looking, and I was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina at this time. The US Navy sortied all capable ships out of Charleston several days beforehand. Unknown if perhaps Norfolk also did so. Also as I recall, most businesses closed down mid-day on Thursday around 10 AM expect much worse. 
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thread_title:  Other Significant Impact 

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message: *Inconsistent formatting on citations
*Hidden section of text in the met? 
:*  Could you please let me know whether or not you intended to include or exclude all of that text? NoahTalk 23:01, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Will review the impact in the morning. NoahTalk 04:44, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  User:Hurricane Noah status?  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  18:07, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

text:  I've just had a go at adding alt text—what do you both think? --Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 05:07, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
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