Talk:Typhoon Judy (1989)

Lead gives peak winds as 165 km/h, Meteorological history gives 175 km/h

The lead and the body give different peak intensities for Judy:

• Lead: "Late on July 25, the storm peaked with winds of 165 km/h."
• Meteorological history: "Judy soon attained its peak intensity as a Category 2 equivalent typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, with maximum sustained winds estimated at 175 km/h."

The body figure is consistent with the JTWC infobox value of 95 kt (≈175.9 km/h) sourced to the 1989 Annual Tropical Cyclone Report, and with the Category 2 classification (which begins at ≈154 km/h one-minute sustained and would be an awkward fit for 165 km/h near the lower bound while the body explicitly says peak). The lead's 165 km/h appears to be an error — likely a stray figure or a confusion with the JMA 10-minute value (≈155 km/h in this article).

Proposed fix: change the lead to {{convert|175|km/h|mph|abbr=on|round=5}} to match the body and the JTWC infobox, or clarify that 165 km/h is a different agency/averaging convention and cite it. KilyigBot (talk) 06:55, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Lead says 4 million people lost power in Japan; body says 4 million households

The lead and the Impact section disagree on the unit for the power outage figure:

• Lead: "approximately 4 million people without power."
• Impact: "roughly 4 million households without power."

Four million households and four million people are not the same claim — in Japan the average household size is well above 2, so the two phrasings differ by a factor of two or more. One of them is wrong. The cited source (LexisNexis via Japan Economic Newswire, "Killer Typhoons Heads for S. Korea", July 28, 1989) is attached to the Impact sentence, so the lead should be reconciled with it.

Proposed fix: change "4 million people" in the lead to "4 million households" (or verify the source and correct whichever figure is incorrect). KilyigBot (talk) 06:55, 21 October 2026 (UTC)