Talk:May 1982 Central America floods

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October 21, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 18:38, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"until May 28. shortly thereafter," - Capitalize "shortly"
- Shoot. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 23:50, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"$365 million (1982 USD).[8] with damage" - I would change the period to a comma
- Changed it to a semicolon.Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane
"and precipitation totals wre as high as23.3 in (590 mm)." - Three things: (1. "wre" is a typo (2. add a space between as and 23.3 (3. There were higher rainfall totals observed from Aletta. Here it says Aletta dropped 57.36 inches of rain. However, I cannot can only find mirror sites as the source. I would suggest that you look for a source for that, but if you cannot find it, but leave the maximum rainfall as 23.3 inches.
- I found a source. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane
"A red cross official stated" - "red cross" should be capitalized
- It's not a proper noun. If it was the U.S. Red Cross, it would be capitalized. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane
"[5] (10 of which drowned in floodwaters)[6] Roughly 20,000 people were" - Add a period before reference #6
- Good call. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane
"red cross and United Nations" - again, "red cross" should be capitalized
- See above.Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 23:50, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"a month's worth of flood supply but officials feared" - "flood supply"? You mean "food supply"?
- Heh, yeah. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane
With that said and done, I am now going to pass this article.--12george1 (talk) 02:49, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Central America floods[edit]

It always seemed suspicious to me that a small tropical storm hundreds of miles away could have caused the disastrous floods in Central America. I checked in with Philippe Papin, the expert on Central American Gyres, and he confirmed my suspicions: accompanying tweet. The floods were caused by a prolonged rain event from a Central American Gyre, not Aletta. Although news reports explicity state Aletta, it was not the cause. This is backed up by the Monthly Weather Review making no mention of the floods whatsoever in relation to Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:25, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In order to see if @Cyclonebiskit: is correct here, I looked at the newspapers cited and noticed that they are all American based. This makes me wonder if someone put noticed that Aletta was operating in the Pacific and certain newspapers just attributed the floods to that. As a result, I would suggest merging the MH with 1982 Pacific hurricane season and moving the rest of the content to either 1982 Central American floods or even better starting a list of floods in Nicaragua and or Honduras.Jason Rees (talk) 21:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, move. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 22:45, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't see this until now, but @Cyclonebiskit:, thanks for looking into this. I have no issues merging the 10 year old article of mine. My hunch is 2E formed from the gyre but I have no sources to confirm this so. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 20:35, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]