Talk:1938 Atlantic hurricane season

Storm naming
This has come up before, but HURDAT does not assign a name for systems prior to 1950. The numbers are simple designations, never meant to be names, hence its name within HURDAT as NOT NAMED. It seems to make sense that if there is a common name for a system that it would trump a name like Hurricane Six, especially if reanalysis changes the numerical sequence every so often. Thegreatdr (talk) 07:00, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think we should list both for the storms that have unofficial names here. If reanalysis changes the number, then we can too. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 21:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good compromise. Thegreatdr (talk) 23:14, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Split
Seeing as we already have articles on the 1952 Groundhog Day tropical storm and the 1978 January subtropical storm, we should have an article on 1938 January hurricane, seeing as the established precedent indicates that forming this far outside the normal boundaries of the hurricane season makes a storm notable—if anything, it's more notable than the 1978 January subtropical storm, as, while neither affected land, the 1978 storm was only a subtropical storm, while the 1938 storm was not only fully tropical but also a hurricane, and still formed in January. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty 01:50, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * This article would not meet WP:Notability. To be honest, the 1978 subtropical storm needs to be merged. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 16:24, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * There is not enough content for such article to exist. 1978 SS is borderline IMO due to lack of content, but I won't go as far as saying it "needs to be merged". YE Pacific  Hurricane 17:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Remember, other articles existing isn't a reason to make a new one. The ones you mentioned are more recent and have been part of the hurricane database for decades. In the case of the 1978 one, I created it because, at the time, it was a rare January storm. Although this too is a rare January storm, it has only known to have existed for a few months, and the discussion mentioning this hurricane also indicated a tropical storm in January 1951, which should be added relatively soon. Given that January storms are no longer as rare as they once were (and especially since we have a great article in List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes), I don't think this one should get an article. There is currently a merge discussion for the 1978 storm, but it has received little input. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 17:26, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion
1938 January hurricane was published by User:Whoop whoop pull up, but it's rather on the short side. I proposed it be merged with the season article. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 22:24, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ...It doesn't even have a banner. YE Pacific Hurricane 22:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * That means not a whole lot of people knew it existed. It shouldn't be a controversial merge, but I want to respect the editing time User:Whoop whoop pull up put into creating the article. I think the content can be saved and put in the season article. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 16:47, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

I redirected the article once I realized that it was a copy and paste of the section in the season article. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 19:57, 14 November 2018 (UTC)