Hi all -- just a quick post to note the errata on the
1990 Hugo NDS report.
Hi Margie - Exactly where did this "errata" sheet come from? I personally own the physical printed 1990 DOC survey (which I received in 1991) and that errata was neither printed in, or distributed with the report? Additionally, the date of the errata page says May, 1990 implying it was included at the time of the original document's publishing... if so, why wouldn't the authors just correct the errors, rather than going to print with known issues and adding a separate errata page in to correct them?
It's also quite amazing, that the errata covers the
EXACT points of contention from our debate about the 1990 Survey Report?
Also, curiously, when our debate started a few weeks back, I had checked a readily available PDF version of this report (linked through Wikipedia to the Service Assessment area of the NWS's website) and found the document to be EXACTLY the same as my physical copy (i.e. no errrata page). Curiously enough, when I went to check that same PDF tonight, the errata page has mysteriously appeared in the PDF file linked through Wikipedia. A quick check of the history for the Hurricane Hugo page on Wikipedia revealed that you have been rather busy lately, making several changes to the data...
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...these included changes to the body copy such as the following:
A [[tropical wave]] moved off of [[Cape Verde]], [[Africa]], on [[September 9]], [[1989]]. Moving westward, it developed into Tropical Storm Hugo on [[September 11]], and became a [[tropical cyclone|hurricane]] on the 13th. Hugo rapidly intensified and briefly reached [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] intensity while well out in the [[Atlantic]]. The NHC best track documents that it scraped the [[Caribbean]] as a Category 4 hurricane, when it passed over [[Guadeloupe]], the [[Leeward Islands]], [[St. Croix]], and then weakened to a Category 3 prior to landfalling over [[Vieques]], [[Culebra]], and the eastern tip of mainland [[Puerto Rico]], while undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle (ERC).
...and to the external links...such as the 1990 DOC Survey.
What I find exceptionally curious, is that the physical URL for the PDF file of the 1990 Survey document
DID NOT change between the time I checked this document, at the start of our debate (when it didn't have the errata), and when I checked it again tonight (when it does have the errata)... which can only mean that the PDF file was overwritten on the server where it is stored, sometime after our debate began?!?
Do you have
ANY thoughts on how these discrepancies might have occurred... as a database admin, I'm sure you must be able to offer some possible explanations?
-=Michael=-