Talk:1880 Atlantic hurricane season

GA review

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Nominator: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 05:12, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 20:17, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


  • "included four hurricanes striking or producing hurricane-force winds in the United States, tied with 1852 and 1869 for the most in one season before 1886." - I suggest citing US hurricane landfalls, which makes it much easier to verify this, over HURDAT
  • "Of the known 1880 cyclones, the sixth was first documented in 1995 by José Fernández-Partagás and Henry F. Diaz. " - this should be prefaced by some sort of mention of HURDAT, or "Atlantic hurricane reanalysis", so it's not so out of nowhere
  • I suggest the final lead paragraph be second instead of third, since it's more interesting and about the storms
  • and 're-instated' the tenth system in the hurricane database (HURDAT). - why the quotes?
  • "That month, the season's second and third cyclones each caused about 30 deaths, with the former causing about $1 million (1880 USD) in damage in northern Tamaulipas and southern Texas and the latter inflicting $50,000 in damage at Up-Park Camp in Jamaica alone." - could this be split to give a bit more info on the storms, such as where they hit, before going into impacts? Something like "...second and third cyclones hit [X and Y] respectively"
  • "Near the end of August, 68 people drowned after the fourth system wrecked the City of Vera Cruz steamship as the hurricane approached landfall in Florida" - could you reorder to mention the hurricane approaching Florida first?
  • "No other effects were reported in Texas or in neighboring Louisiana." - no need to mention when things don't happen
  • "130 mi (210 km) east of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, at 00:00 UTC on August 4." - why so specific on the city?
  • "Chenoweth mainly proposed a slightly more southerly track for this storm, while also delaying the system's intensification into a hurricane until August 9" - this should be in the first paragraph
  • "The pressure in the storm was determined to be 931 mbar (27.5 inHg) at the time of landfall,[8] based on a reading of 958.9 mbar (28.315 inHg) coincident with hurricane-force winds at Brownsville, an inland site" - same as above
  • "According to Chenoweth's 2014 reanalysis study, the cyclone instead clipped the north coast of Martinique and intensified significantly after crossing Jamaica, briefly reaching major hurricane status on August 19. Later, the system made landfall in North Carolina on August 23 as a tropical storm and dissipated the next day" - should also be with the first paragraph IMO. Ditto:
  • "A preliminary reanalysis in 2014 classified the storm as a Category 3 hurricane in Jamaica,[3] based on an unconfirmed ship report of 962 mbar (28.40 inHg) by the S. S. Tropic"
  • "forty-five vessels" - per MOS:NUM should be "45". A few other times in the article you write out numbers instead of using numbers
  • "with a pressure of at most 955 mbar (28.2 inHg)" - the "at most" is throwing me off since usually pressure is in "minimum" millibars
  • "The hurricane caused 68 deaths when, north of what is now Cape Canaveral, it caused a steamship, the City of Vera Cruz, to be wrecked." - a bit clunky
  • I am annoyed that hurricanes 6 and 7 aren't combined into the same track yet, but we're left with the official record. Nothing you can do here.
  • "St. John's, Newfoundland, recorded decreasing atmospheric pressures" - this seems irrelevant given how many words after the previous mention of Newfoundland
  • "It never made landfall but did cause several ships to sink" - any deaths because of this?

Those are my only notes. Fine job in the article. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:17, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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