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Hurricane Felix (1995) has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 6, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
September 9, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
May 22, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
June 15, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted
December 18, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 15, 2006. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the East Coast of the United States?
Current status: Good article

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Some will question this article's existence. I don't really have a strong opinion. It does sound like it's more notable than Hurricane Gaston (2004), however. — jdorje (talk) 00:56, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, B class on the first try. Cool! The reason for the aticle is the extensive preparation for an area that rarely sees hurricanes, as well as the effects a hurricane can have without making landfall. Hurricanehink 01:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is an excellent article for an underrated storm. Those are the kind of storms that really need to get people's attention - because who knows, maybe next time it will come in? Also 8 deaths with little damage is quite unusual; it was quite deadly in the open water. CrazyC83 02:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agreed. I thought it would be an interesting article to write, especially given the level of preparation. I added damage totals. Hurricanehink 11:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Found a lotta damage in Maine. Much better now, I think. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 18:40, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review?

I can't think of any way to really improve this article even thought it's supposed to be the GA collaboration of the week, should we just put this up for peer review? Homestarmy 13:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed and done. Tarret 16:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps Review: Pass

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" articles. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have made several minor corrections throughout the article. Altogether the article is well-written and is still in great shape after its passing in 2006. Continue to improve the article making sure all new information is properly sourced and neutral. It would also be beneficial to go through the article and add access dates for the inline citations and fix any dead links. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article history to reflect this review. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 20:38, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Accuweather forecasts of this system

We had a system at one of my former workplaces which displayed AccuWeather forecasts of Felix in real-time, and AccuWeather kept forecasting the storm to move westward through North Carolina into Tennessee. It could be worth seeing if there is a reference to this online, outside of a blog. Thegreatdr (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Hurricane Felix (1995)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 21:22, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hurricanehink, I am gonna be reviewing this article today.--12george1 (talk) 21:22, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The seventh tropical cyclone, sixth named storm" - Wikilink tropical cyclone naming?
- Sure. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Although it was initially a tropical depression, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Felix later that day." - Why are you using "it" twice in the same sentence? Also, what is "it"? The Atlantic Ocean? :P
- I didn't write the lede :P --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Felix passed only 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Bermuda." - Round that to 120 km
- K. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"It accelerated east-northeastward, and passed a short distance offshore of Newfoundland, where it transitioned into an extratropical storm on August 22." - Again, don't use "it" twice in the same sentence.
- Changed. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Near-hurricane force winds in Bermuda, downed trees and power lines" - What's with the comma?
- Again, didn't write it :/ --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Damage from rough seas in the United States totaled to $132,000 (1995 USD)." - Are you gonna leave a note that all damage tolls are in 1995 USD? If not, I could make an exception and let you leave the damage tolls the way they are, since there aren't very many of them in the article.
- I'll leave them, yea. I don't have a note field for anything else. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"the hurricane passed about 75 mi (121 km) south of Bermuda," - Round that to 120 km
- Fixed. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"60 to 80 mi (97 to 130 km) in diameter," - Round 97 km to 100 km
- K. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"The warnings were discontinued after the hurricane bypassed the island." - State the date when this occurred
- I tweaked it. I mentioned downgrading to TS warning, but since both happened to two different days, I didn't include it deliberately. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"A tropical storm watch was later issued for Bermuda late in Felix's duration when it was drifting offshore the eastern United States." - Ditto
- Added. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Little River, South Carolina to Chincoteague, Virginia, the Pamlico and Albemarle sounds, and southern portions of the Chesapeake Bay." - This would probably read better if you added "including" or "which included" following the comma after Virginia.
- Agreed. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
" to near Manasquan, New Jersey including the Chesapeake" - Comma after New Jersey.
- L. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"200,000 people left the island chain,[12] including 125,000 in Dare County." - Which state is Dare County in? Hopefully not a state of Confusion :P
- Clarified where Outer Banks were :P --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Some people in Virginia Beach, Virginia also evacuated voluntarily." - Maybe add a comma after Virginia (state)?
- Eh, don't think it's needed. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"The loss of tourism revenue was estimated at $1.2 million in Currituck County alone,[14] Evacuation orders were dropped and shelters were closed as the storm moved away.[15]" - Something isn't right here. End of discussion! Period. :P
- Reordered o.O --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"reaching as far south as Georgia and as far north as Maine." - Wikilink Maine
- Fine. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"although extensive beach erosion after a week of strong waves;" - Missing a word?
- I it. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You don't really have to do this, but are there any storms similar to Felix that you could add to the See also section?
- Added Edouard :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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