Talk:1946 Atlantic hurricane season

Orphaned references in 1946 Atlantic hurricane season
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of 1946 Atlantic hurricane season's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "mwr": From 1950 Atlantic hurricane season:  From 1940 Atlantic hurricane season:  From List of Florida hurricanes (1900–49):  From 1952 Atlantic hurricane season:  From 1948 Atlantic hurricane season:  From 1947 Atlantic hurricane season: 1947 Monthly Weather Review 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:46, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

U.S. Weather Bureau published only 6 systems during the year
The U.S. Weather Bureau published a paper titled North Atlantic Hurricanes and Disturbances of 1946, where they only mention that the Atlantic season had 6 tropical systems. The article currently mentions seven. The article should mention how the U.S. Government did not recognize the September 9 tropical depression. Either that, or it should be removed entirely since it wasn’t recognized. Elijahandskip (talk) 05:38, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Small update: I just checked the singular source cited for that tropical depression and “09/09/“ comes out 26 times in the document, but none of the instances are for 1946. “09/09/1946” does not appear in the document either. If I am somehow missing it, someone is free to correct me, but as it appears now, the tropical depression of September 9, 1946 is an unsourced system and doesn’t seem to have any recognition from the US Government. Unless someone finds a source indicating otherwise, I think removal of it from the article would be best. I won’t remove it yet to give some time for other editors to maybe locate something about it. Elijahandskip (talk) 05:44, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


 * , that annual Atlantic hurricane summary in the Monthly Weather Review has been superseded by HURDAT reanalysis; in fact FN 7 (Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT) states that a reanalysis of the 1946–1950 seasons was completed in March 2014, during which TS Five was "discovered" and added to HURDAT. This is why there are currently seven "named" systems listed in the article instead of the original six listed in the Monthly Weather Review published in December 1946. As for the tropical depression, while it isn't listed in HURDAT as a numbered system, FN 7 does talk about it as "Suspect 4":


 * ...which states the system was a tropical depression on September 9, 1946 (and would explain why searching 09/09 doesn't locate it). ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 15:23, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * There it is! That’s why the search wasn’t showing up. Thanks for checking on that. Elijahandskip (talk) 16:09, 23 April 2023 (UTC)