Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Connie/archive1
Apologies, I'm not going to have time to write this blurb ... any takers? Keep it between 925 and 1025 characters, please. - Dank (push to talk) 19:37, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Hurricane Connie was the first of three hurricanes to strike North Carolina in 1955. It formed on August 3 in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and killed three people in the United States Virgin Islands while passing nearby. Connie reached maximum sustained winds of 120 knots (140 mph, 220 km/h), making it a Category 4 hurricane, before it weakened and moved ashore on August 12. It moved through the Chesapeake Bay region, and was later absorbed by a cold front over Lake Huron on August 15. The hurricane caused around $86 million in damage, and at least 295,000 people nationwide lost power during the storm. Most of that occurred in North Carolina, where the storm killed 27 people. In the Chesapeake Bay, Connie capsized a boat, killing 14 people. There were also four deaths in Washington, D.C., six deaths each in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 14 in New York, and 3 in Ontario. Connie was followed days later by Hurricane Diane, which caused $700 million in flood damage. (Full article...)
Is this too long? Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 19:17, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Hink. It's 1234; needs to be 925 to 1025. - Dank (push to talk) 19:26, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Better now Dank (talk · contribs)? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Perfect ... except that 140 mph is 230 kmh. (Any chance this was a typo?) I get that we need to report the figures they give, but when they're wrong, it makes us look bad if we just report the wrong numbers without comment. Suggestions? - Dank (push to talk) 13:38, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- That is the unusual result of the NHC listing in knots, and then converting to both mph and km/h. I added knots, because that way the rounding is correct. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:51, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry, I meant "looks wrong" rather than "is wrong". I'm more comfortable with the way you have it now, listing knots ... I hope that works for you guys. - Dank (push to talk) 14:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- That works fine. Better to look accurate than looking wrong. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry, I meant "looks wrong" rather than "is wrong". I'm more comfortable with the way you have it now, listing knots ... I hope that works for you guys. - Dank (push to talk) 14:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- That is the unusual result of the NHC listing in knots, and then converting to both mph and km/h. I added knots, because that way the rounding is correct. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:51, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Perfect ... except that 140 mph is 230 kmh. (Any chance this was a typo?) I get that we need to report the figures they give, but when they're wrong, it makes us look bad if we just report the wrong numbers without comment. Suggestions? - Dank (push to talk) 13:38, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Better now Dank (talk · contribs)? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC)