Talk:May 1982 Central America floods

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Central America floods
It always seemed suspicious to me that a small tropical storm hundreds of miles away could have caused the disastrous floods in Central America. I checked in with Philippe Papin, the expert on Central American Gyres, and he confirmed my suspicions: accompanying tweet. The floods were caused by a prolonged rain event from a Central American Gyre, not Aletta. Although news reports explicity state Aletta, it was not the cause. This is backed up by the Monthly Weather Review making no mention of the floods whatsoever in relation to Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:25, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * In order to see if is correct here, I looked at the newspapers cited and noticed that they are all American based. This makes me wonder if someone put noticed that Aletta was operating in the Pacific and certain newspapers just attributed the floods to that. As a result, I would suggest merging the MH with 1982 Pacific hurricane season and moving the rest of the content to either 1982 Central American floods or even better starting a list of floods in Nicaragua and or Honduras.Jason Rees (talk) 21:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed, move. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 22:45, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I didn't see this until now, but, thanks for looking into this. I have no issues merging the 10 year old article of mine. My hunch is 2E formed from the gyre but I have no sources to confirm this so. YE Pacific Hurricane 20:35, 29 October 2021 (UTC)