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video2commons appears to be down, otherwise i'd migrate these PD videos myself! Victor Grigas ( talk) 23:12, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Victor Grigas ( talk) 14:48, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I got some reliable source form CBS and others that Laura is a Category 4 Hurricane but why isn't it changed in the infobox yet even though the contributors mentioned it in the body. Is there a reason? Should we change it? Call me Karthik 😉🤞 ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
As of 17:41 UTC someone has 'downgraded' Laura to a Tropical Storm in the article. The BBC are still reporting it as Category 2 and NOAA are listing it as a hurricane. It seems that someone has been foolish, given that accurate information on the status of Laura is important to people in northern Louisiana. Stub Mandrel ( talk) 17:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
@ ChessEric: Please stop changing the lead sentence to something so sensational, even if that wording is used by the NHC. This is absolutely not the WP:TONE we should be presenting in articles.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 05:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I can't figure out why the article says this at the top but this is the edit that introduced it: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Hurricane_Laura&diff=next&oldid=974613339 . Someone who knows how should remove this. Baldersmash ( talk) 19:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Section Impact - United States - Louisiana begins with a srange word: umerous (sic). Please, fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.6.89.97 ( talk) 15:34, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Should we remove the link to Hurricane Marco#Preparations? Though at a point, both Laura and Marco were to hit as hurricanes, but Marco eventually degenerated into a weak tropical storm when it made landfall. It literally did nothing, and the preparations for Marco were less than impressive. Unlike Laura, the National Guard, state troopers, and evacuation crews were not initiated. Evacuation was only mandatory in a few counties in Mississippi, compared to most of southern Louisiana, southwestern Texas, and western Mississippi was evacuated due to Laura. What do you guys think? Oppose? Support? Comment? ~ Destroyeraa 🌀 00:41, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Good work. Just wondering about why Katrina isn't on the US list of strongest landfall tropical cyclones for Louisiana. Thanks. Pasdecomplot ( talk) 12:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
The article currently doesn't mention climate change. I've noticed this in more articles about tropical cyclones, whose meteorological history is consistent with trends expected by climate change, and who are directly linked by climate scientist to climate change. In the case of Laura, quite a few scientists have chimed in here. [1] [2] [3] Laura's Rapid intensification and the location of making landfall are consistent with climate change, according to these climatologists: driven by high sea surface temperatures. Before I start crafting a few sentences, I was wondering if there is some consensus to omit the potential underlying cause of tropical cyclone intensification before an official attribution and detection study has been performed? Femke Nijsse ( talk) 09:18, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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The article about planes that fly into hurricanes is called Hurricane hunters, not Hurricane Hunters. The capital letters make them sound like an organization, but apparently "hurricane hunters" is just a description. Please replace "Hurricane Hunters" with "hurricane hunters" or "Hurricane hunters" as appropriate. Thank you. 64.203.187.108 ( talk) 15:37, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey there. I just created a draft - Draft:Meteorological history of Hurricane Laura, since some users had an incentive to create such an article. It's gonna take some time to finish it, and by the time it's finished, Laura would've dissipated. Therefore, it's written not in the present tense (Laura is a currently active tropical depression that is affecting...) but in the past tense (Laura was the a deadly tropical cyclone that is tied for the record of the strongest landfalling hurricane in Louisiana...) - something like that. Anyone good at writing met history articles? ~ Destroyeraa 🌀 16:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi:
Just found this link to a first estimation of the insured damages in the US, excluding Puerto Rio, at 8 to 12 billions $US: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/business/hurricane-laura-economic-impact/index.html
Pierre cb ( talk) 03:16, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok also can i add the Wettest known hurricane to striem Haiti because laura was 7th wettest Dannisom ( talk) 16:27, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
The Fort Polk radar was not destroyed, please update the article. See source: https://www.facebook.com/NEXRADROC/posts/3786620181370863 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.4.104.114 ( talk) 08:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
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> Most of the watches were upgraded to warnings the next day and a flash flood watch was also issued for the western half of the state as over 10 inches (25 cm) of rain was expected
Please change to mm. Centimeters are not used for rainfall 93.136.196.224 ( talk) 01:47, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
In the Impacts section under Louisiana the article states The NWS radar at Fort Polk was also destroyed This is very incorrect, as the radar in Polk still exists and is downed by a communication outage, as stated by the source, could somebody fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.196.99.188 ( talk) 01:14, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Done Jurisdicta ( talk) 02:19, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
I had to re fix everything that got sabotaged by people that thought it reached Cat 5. Rmagnan ( talk) 07:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm no expert on TC stylisation and formatting on WP, though regularly view the pages. I found the lead "The twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season..." to be somewhat jarring, as "Fourth Hurricane" doesn't sit very well with me. Of course Hurricane Laura was the fourth storm to reach hurricane strength, as Marco became a hurricane first. I don't necessarily think a rewording is justified or required, but is the time of strengthening to a certain status (ie hurricane) common in declaring an ordinal (first, second, third...) position for a hurricane, or is it's naming order taken as priority making the lead incorrect? It's not necessarily wrong, or bad, and again may not warrant change - in fact I'm probably the problem - but I found it ambiguous to the point I'd wish to raise it nonetheless. 14.201.169.111 ( talk) 15:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
"Multiple homes also were uninhabitable due to air conditioning units being destroyed."
Not mentioned in the source and sounds a little weird. What is mentioned is that a hospital won't be able to reopen because they can't keep their equipment sterile without air conditioning. 93.136.94.63 ( talk) 04:23, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi:
May I have the reference for this "A total of 32 fatalities occurred throughout the state with four of them coming from falling trees."? As far as I can have official references, there is only 27 death in Louisiana according to the Departement of HealT ( https://ldh.la.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/5761).
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video2commons appears to be down, otherwise i'd migrate these PD videos myself! Victor Grigas ( talk) 23:12, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Victor Grigas ( talk) 14:48, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I got some reliable source form CBS and others that Laura is a Category 4 Hurricane but why isn't it changed in the infobox yet even though the contributors mentioned it in the body. Is there a reason? Should we change it? Call me Karthik 😉🤞 ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
As of 17:41 UTC someone has 'downgraded' Laura to a Tropical Storm in the article. The BBC are still reporting it as Category 2 and NOAA are listing it as a hurricane. It seems that someone has been foolish, given that accurate information on the status of Laura is important to people in northern Louisiana. Stub Mandrel ( talk) 17:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
@ ChessEric: Please stop changing the lead sentence to something so sensational, even if that wording is used by the NHC. This is absolutely not the WP:TONE we should be presenting in articles.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 05:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I can't figure out why the article says this at the top but this is the edit that introduced it: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Hurricane_Laura&diff=next&oldid=974613339 . Someone who knows how should remove this. Baldersmash ( talk) 19:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Section Impact - United States - Louisiana begins with a srange word: umerous (sic). Please, fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.6.89.97 ( talk) 15:34, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Should we remove the link to Hurricane Marco#Preparations? Though at a point, both Laura and Marco were to hit as hurricanes, but Marco eventually degenerated into a weak tropical storm when it made landfall. It literally did nothing, and the preparations for Marco were less than impressive. Unlike Laura, the National Guard, state troopers, and evacuation crews were not initiated. Evacuation was only mandatory in a few counties in Mississippi, compared to most of southern Louisiana, southwestern Texas, and western Mississippi was evacuated due to Laura. What do you guys think? Oppose? Support? Comment? ~ Destroyeraa 🌀 00:41, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Good work. Just wondering about why Katrina isn't on the US list of strongest landfall tropical cyclones for Louisiana. Thanks. Pasdecomplot ( talk) 12:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
The article currently doesn't mention climate change. I've noticed this in more articles about tropical cyclones, whose meteorological history is consistent with trends expected by climate change, and who are directly linked by climate scientist to climate change. In the case of Laura, quite a few scientists have chimed in here. [1] [2] [3] Laura's Rapid intensification and the location of making landfall are consistent with climate change, according to these climatologists: driven by high sea surface temperatures. Before I start crafting a few sentences, I was wondering if there is some consensus to omit the potential underlying cause of tropical cyclone intensification before an official attribution and detection study has been performed? Femke Nijsse ( talk) 09:18, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
References
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cite news}}
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and |date=
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help)CS1 maint: url-status (
link)
{{
cite web}}
: |first=
has generic name (
help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
![]() | This
edit request to
Hurricane Laura has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The article about planes that fly into hurricanes is called Hurricane hunters, not Hurricane Hunters. The capital letters make them sound like an organization, but apparently "hurricane hunters" is just a description. Please replace "Hurricane Hunters" with "hurricane hunters" or "Hurricane hunters" as appropriate. Thank you. 64.203.187.108 ( talk) 15:37, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey there. I just created a draft - Draft:Meteorological history of Hurricane Laura, since some users had an incentive to create such an article. It's gonna take some time to finish it, and by the time it's finished, Laura would've dissipated. Therefore, it's written not in the present tense (Laura is a currently active tropical depression that is affecting...) but in the past tense (Laura was the a deadly tropical cyclone that is tied for the record of the strongest landfalling hurricane in Louisiana...) - something like that. Anyone good at writing met history articles? ~ Destroyeraa 🌀 16:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi:
Just found this link to a first estimation of the insured damages in the US, excluding Puerto Rio, at 8 to 12 billions $US: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/business/hurricane-laura-economic-impact/index.html
Pierre cb ( talk) 03:16, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok also can i add the Wettest known hurricane to striem Haiti because laura was 7th wettest Dannisom ( talk) 16:27, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
The Fort Polk radar was not destroyed, please update the article. See source: https://www.facebook.com/NEXRADROC/posts/3786620181370863 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.4.104.114 ( talk) 08:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
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> Most of the watches were upgraded to warnings the next day and a flash flood watch was also issued for the western half of the state as over 10 inches (25 cm) of rain was expected
Please change to mm. Centimeters are not used for rainfall 93.136.196.224 ( talk) 01:47, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
In the Impacts section under Louisiana the article states The NWS radar at Fort Polk was also destroyed This is very incorrect, as the radar in Polk still exists and is downed by a communication outage, as stated by the source, could somebody fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.196.99.188 ( talk) 01:14, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Done Jurisdicta ( talk) 02:19, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
I had to re fix everything that got sabotaged by people that thought it reached Cat 5. Rmagnan ( talk) 07:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm no expert on TC stylisation and formatting on WP, though regularly view the pages. I found the lead "The twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season..." to be somewhat jarring, as "Fourth Hurricane" doesn't sit very well with me. Of course Hurricane Laura was the fourth storm to reach hurricane strength, as Marco became a hurricane first. I don't necessarily think a rewording is justified or required, but is the time of strengthening to a certain status (ie hurricane) common in declaring an ordinal (first, second, third...) position for a hurricane, or is it's naming order taken as priority making the lead incorrect? It's not necessarily wrong, or bad, and again may not warrant change - in fact I'm probably the problem - but I found it ambiguous to the point I'd wish to raise it nonetheless. 14.201.169.111 ( talk) 15:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
"Multiple homes also were uninhabitable due to air conditioning units being destroyed."
Not mentioned in the source and sounds a little weird. What is mentioned is that a hospital won't be able to reopen because they can't keep their equipment sterile without air conditioning. 93.136.94.63 ( talk) 04:23, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi:
May I have the reference for this "A total of 32 fatalities occurred throughout the state with four of them coming from falling trees."? As far as I can have official references, there is only 27 death in Louisiana according to the Departement of HealT ( https://ldh.la.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/5761).