Talk:Hurricane Irma/Archive 3

Semi-protected edit request on 30 August 2023
Change max sustained winds from 180 mph to 185mph

In the table regarding the statistics of Hurricane Irma the row stating the maximum sustained winds appears to be incorrect. The table currently states the max sustained winds were 180mph.

However, the historical archive of advisories issued by NOAA and the NHC show the highest sustained winds to be 185 mph.

I have found this speed to have been listed from advisory number 26A (2:00 PM AST Tue Sep 05 2017) through a positioning update issued after on (01:00 AM AST Wed Sep 07 2017).

Here is a link to the first advisory stating 185 mph https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/al11/al112017.public_a.026.shtml?

Here is a link to the last update referencing the 185mph sustained winds https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/al11/al112017.update.09070456.shtml?

Here is a link of the graphics archive showing the chang in wind speed and position over time https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/IRMA_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_with_line_and_wind

Here is a link to all of the issues advisories for hurricane Irma. The related advisories start at 26A through a 1AM updated issued after advisory 32 https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/IRMA.shtml Just-a-pale-male (talk) 16:04, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ GrishForce (talk) 18:50, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The NHC does a post-season reanalysis and it's not uncommon for them to revise peak winds. Irma was downgraded from 185 mph to 180 mph (155 knots).
 * https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112017_Irma.pdf Pipopipito (talk) 08:46, 3 September 2023 (UTC)