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One of the last paragraphs about Beta states "Earlier that month, the Category 1 Hurricane Stan devastated Central America, causing floods and mudslides that killed thousands of people in Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas." my goodness, I had never heard of hurricane Stan until now, although it killed thousands, I guess because it did not impact on the USA then it never made headline news. Shame on the USA --MarkA 20:47, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Great, so we're copying info from the main hurricane page and putting it into its own article AGAIN. Do people not learn? Oy. Mike H (Talking is hot) 04:37, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
No deaths or damage have been reported. Perhaps we should be more optimistic. 200.124.33.78 21:52, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
What about Alpha?
an earlier version said it made landfall in "La Barra". The intro says it made landfall on the Mosquito Coast in the north of the Nicaraguan Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur. And one of the news articles I read said it made landfall at Karawala, 100 kilometers south of Puerto Cabezas. --Revolución (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article be named Hurricane Beta (2005), as the name has not yet been retired, and I don't suspect that it will be retired. 132.205.46.167 00:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
One thing you have to do here: give them extensive awards for preparations. I guess even the Nicaragua and Honduras emergency officials learned a lot from Katrina...despite the extensive damage there (although we'll likely never get an exact dollar amount; if that was in an American region, it would likely be in the billions of dollars), NO ONE lost their lives.
My view on retirement: had it been a normally-named storm, it would be retired, but I think the WMO will be very hesitant to retire a Greek letter. CrazyC83 17:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
What's the point of really having this article? All the information that's here can be found in the main article. This storm is not that notable. So there's some isolated heavy damage. That's gonna happen when a storm hits Central America, that's a part of life for them. This storm did not cause unusually high deaths or damage and I'm considering a merge proposal. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 02:59, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
The main article does not contain all of this information. To do that would make it even bigger then it already is (which is quite big). That page has basic info on this storm, and this article elabroates greatly. There is no reason to merge. Rangeley 23:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Anyone have a better image of Beta? --24.83.117.65 00:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I shortened the intro greatly. There were certain things that are not notable or were wrong, and a compact introduction is better than a 3-paragraph one that rambles. Information removed includes:
Jdorje 05:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Nothing really new to report on, except for the unbelievable confirmation of no fatalities. Zero people in Nicuragua were killed when Category 2 Hurricane Beta made landfall. That's an amazing success story.
is this still in development? --71.62.4.205 (talk) 01:36, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
The options you have are expanding that section, or combining it with another section. Otherwise, this article should fly though GA. I reworded some of the lead and body, so I shouldn't officially review it. Thegreatdr (talk) 20:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
What if this retired? What will happen? Hurricane Typhoon Cyclone 07:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Not to reopen an old discussion, but isn't it convention to only give a non-disambiguated name to a retired hurricane? Since "Beta" can't be retired (being a Greek-letter name), and thus can be used again (as for the argument that it hasn't been used again since, see Hurricane Igor (2010)), I propose that we add the year back to article name. Just my opinion. -Happy5214 (talk) 13:31, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
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There's about to be a new Tropical Storm, possibly Hurricane Beta, and so this should be moved back. In fact, since the Greek letters will never be retired, it seems better to preemptively disambiguate all such storms by year. —Torchiest talkedits 18:34, 18 September 2020 (UTC)