Talk:Hurricane Hanna (2020)

Hurricane vs tropical cyclone
The article title recently changed to Hurricane Hanna (2020); was Tropical Storm Hanna (2020). Fine; assume that's just 'cause it got stronger.

But the article first sentence now says "Hurricane Hanna is a currently active tropical cyclone threatening to strike Southern Texas and northeastern Mexico."

Why is the hurricane a tropical cyclone, and not just a particular instance of a hurricane? Cheers. N2e (talk) 17:48, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello . A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, because tropical cyclones are called hurricanes in North America, coastal Europe, and western Africa. It is important to state in the lead that Hanna is both a hurricane and a tropical cyclone. ~ Destroyeraa (talk|Contribs) 18:40, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Border wall collapsed?
Hi:

This seems another social media boo-boo. This article (https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/hurricane-hanna-border-wall/) point out that the video was taken in a desert setting during daytime with workers witnessing the event while Hanna passed the border during the night, not in a desert area by the Rio Grande, and everybody was certainly any workers were sheltering at home following the Hurricane warnings. I suggest strongly to remove any mention of it in the text or at least to right that is was wrong.

Pierre cb (talk) 21:54, 27 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Found an AP News article clarifying the matter and rewrote that bit. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 13:33, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Question of relevance
The article as of 13 Aug contains this: "Shortly after Hanna, Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales surveyed damage along Padre Island" but has no additional context to anything in the article.

I can see why the TV news source runs with that story--they need video footage to go with their "news of the moment" feed. But it's unclear how this adds to Wikipedia's explication of the events. I'm sure various folks from nation state and other government bureaus often go looking at stuff after a hurricane passes through, and I'm sure we could list many who did after Hanna. But to what purpose? N2e (talk) 22:14, 13 August 2020 (UTC)