Hurricane Ian aka Wikipedia Mierda loco

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Hurricane Ian aka Wikipedia Mierda loco

Post by wexter » Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:25 am

Wikipedia cannot get the first sentence correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ian
Hurricane Ian is a Category 2 hurricane that is impacting South and Central Florida after striking the Cayman Islands and western Cuba
The primary source must be wrong!, NOT!

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/M ... 2352.shtml
Even the recently toned down readings state that -"Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 115 mph (185 km/h)with higher gusts. Ian is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale."

Or here; the secondary source must be wrong! NOT!


https://www.flgov.com/2022/09/28/govern ... ane-ian-5/
Ian is currently a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, nearing a category 5. Because of the severity and devastation of this storm, Governor Ron DeSantis is requesting a Major Disaster declaration from President Biden for all 67 counties of the state. As part of this request, Governor DeSantis is also asking that President Biden approve a FEMA federal cost share of 100 percent for 60 days to support recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
The talk page is ripe with people trying to correct the obviously Mierda Loco main page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hurr ... _hurricane?
NOAA's update at 19:10 UTC is 150mph sustained winds, down from 155mph. So probably just squeaking under the Cat 5 threshold, not that the damage on the ground would vary much due to a few less mph. --Natural RX 19:29, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

A high end Category 4 is still very devastating for any tropical cyclone. It is still looking pretty bad on satellite imagery. Williamwang363 (talk) 22:12, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
And of course, Wikipedia is wrong, again!
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Re: Hurricane Ian aka Wikipedia Mierda loco

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:26 pm

ha ha ha

They ended up changing it to "large tropical cyclone". Ha ha.

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