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Nominator: FrizzB (talk · contribs) 16:06, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 21:31, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

• The important information is verified and cited in the article Y
• ” Then, as it turned northwestward” – since there was no previous mention of movement, I suggest getting rid of “then” and saying “It moved northwestward”. It’s simpler I replaced it with “As it moved northwestward” so it connects with the next part of the sentence.🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Link Saffir-Simpson scale somewhere in the lead, maybe in a note with “major hurricane”, or just write it out somewhere
• “The complete collapse of convection on June 20 caused it to dissipate over the interior regions” – the “it” is a bit clear, I suggest using “Erick” here. Pretty minor if that’s one of the only things I can nitpick about the lead. Done🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Met history

• “On June 14, a slow-moving tropical wave emerged off the coast of Central America.” – specify “west” coast  Done🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• You mention “basin” in both the lead and the MH, I suggest adding a link to basin  Done 🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• “broad area of low pressure” – link low pressure area  Done 🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• “The system soon acquired a well-defined circulation, developing into Tropical Depression Five‑E[4] by 00:00 UTC on June 17.[2]” – I’m not a fan of having a reference mid-sentence (even though I’m guilty of it sometimes). Could you put them both at the end?
• “Amid an environment conducive to strengthening, the system strengthened into a tropical storm 12 hours later, and was named Erick, while moving west-northwestward along the southwestern periphery of a weakening mid-level ridge situated over Mexico” – since it’s a new paragraph, the “12 hours later” forces the reader to go back to the previous paragraph. I suggest something like “12 hours after it became a tropical depression”, or something like that. Also, it’s a lot for one sentence, so I suggest splitting.
• “Later, deep convection expanded, and cloud tops cooled to about −120 °F (−85 °C) near the developing inner-core structure.[5] Later that day, Erick began to rapidly intensify. ” – the two “Later” doesn’t help starting consecutive sentences.
• “Rapid intensification continued, and based on data collected by an Air Force Reserve Unit Hurricane Hunter,[7] the NHC upgraded Erick to Category 2 strength a few hours later,” – same problem as earlier, that the “few hours later” requires going back to the previous paragraph to know when this is.
• “Late that same day, Erick developed a concentric eyewall structure, indicative of an eyewall replacement cycle.[2] Satellite imagery showed deep convection wrapping around the eye.[9] After the cycle was complete” – I suggest moving the part about the “convection wrapping around the eye”, so the focus is on the eyewall replacement cycle.
• “After the cycle was complete, the system intensified further, reaching its peak intensity at 06:00 UTC that day, with Category 4 maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h), an increase of 65 mph (100 km/h) in a 24-hour period, and a minimum central pressure of 944 mb (27.88 inHg). ” – what was the basis for the peak intensity? You mentioned Recon earlier, so I’m assuming that. I also suggest adding where the storm was at this time. The fact it rapidly intensified right near the coast is interesting and scary.

Will continue later. It looks good so far. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:31, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricanehink I will finish later. 🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing

• I feel like there’s one too many pics. The image of it intensifying south of Oaxaca seems unnecessary, since we have the peak intensity pic. I only noticed it because some of the text was getting sandwiched.

Preps

• “Across the region, 2,000 shelters” – technically the source says “more than 2,000”, not exactly 2,000
• “In Guerrero, 582 shelters were opened on the same day.” – there’s no mention of a day. Also, is this needed since know the total shelter number is over 2,000?
• “Thirty-five municipalities of Oaxaca were ordered to open shelters” – we know the total number of shelters, so I’m not sure what this adds.
• “Classes were closed in forty-three municipalities.” – could you also mention this when you mention the other schools closed?
• “Flights were cancelled to Bahías de Huatulco International Airport.” – could this be combined with Acapulco canceling their flights?

Impact

• I suggest starting out the Impact with some kind of summary/lead-in, like “When Hurricane Erick struck southern Mexico, it produced a variety of impacts.” Right now it starts abruptly with the waves. Having a nationwide damage/death total would be helpful here. I also suggest adding meteorology observations, such as the highest rainfall recorded in the storm, highest wind gust, that kind of stuff. Otherwise the impact structure works fine, how you go from state to state.
• “In Oaxaca, Erick dropped heavy rainfall that produced mudslides that damaged several homes and schools, closed highways, and injured one person.” – could you split this up? It’s a lot for one sentence, and it’s unclear if it’s the rainfall or mudslides causing all of those impacts.
• “Street flooding stalled vehicles in Salina Cruz,[29][30] and at least 30,000 people in Puerto Escondido were left without electricity or cellphone coverage when Erick made landfall.” – these don’t seem related, so I suggest splitting into two sentences.
• Since Acapulco is in Guerrero, I suggest combining the Acapulco stuff with the rest of Guerrero.
• “In Oaxaca and Guerrero, Erick damaged or destroyed 42,552 homes, 468 schools, 1,665 km of federal highways, 1,243 km of state roads, 8 bridges, and 1 tunnel. In total, 276,885 customers lost power.” – this sort of stuff would be good if you had an intro paragraph for the impact section. Maybe split it up into a few sentences. Remember to convert km to miles.
• “A man drowned after falling into the Tampaón River while another man was killed after being swept into a storm drain while riding a horse” – since these are two of the deaths in Mexico from the hurricane, I think it’s worth adding where these happened.
• “As Erick approached Guatemala, it exacerbated heavy rainfall in the country, which resulted in 18 deaths, one missing and 27 injuries, with 5,053 people affected and 1,017 others displaced” – a few things. First, the article never mentioned Erick approaching the country, so maybe find a different way of wording this? Second, did Erick result in the 18 deaths, or did it exacerbate, or add, to the floods that had previously caused all of these deaths? Part 1: Done Part2:”The remnants of that phenomenon caused floods, landslides, mudslides and fallen trees,” and “He recommended not crossing swollen rivers or flooded streets, because –he warned– those 18 deaths are a consequence of actions that did not take this into account.” leads me to think that Erick caused the effects.🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 20:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• “In El Salvador, as much as 70% of crops were damaged in El Paisnal due to the storm.” – the “as much as 70%” doesn’t mean much as an upper limit, especially being the only instance of impact in the country. Maybe just note that there was crop damage here?  Done🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 20:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aftermath

• “Profits from the Guelaguetza festival, including the National Mezcal Fair, were devoted to the reconstruction of regions destroyed by Hurricane Erick.” – it would be nice to have how much profits were raised, but not mandatory for a GA  Done I found 2 sources saying expected profits were Mex$40 million and Mex$31 million respectively🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 20:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• “400,000 pavilions, 16,000 liters of water and 2,500 tarpaulins have also been distributed.” – what do you mean that 400,000 pavilions were distributed? Also, don’t forget to convert liters to gallons. Lastly, the “have also been” is complex, when you could just say “were distributed.”Part 1:When I translated it again, it says “tents”. Parts 2 and 3. {{done}
• “cleaning and removal of landslides were carried out on at least 313 kilometers of roads” – convert to miles Done
• Why is the last aftermath paragraph on its own? It wasn’t.🥏FrizzBTalk🥏 20:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In general the article is in good shape. Just a few small nitpicks. Hopefully it’s easy to address. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:16, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]