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I never get sad when people abandon Wikipedia. It probably means they got a girlfriend.
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This week in weather history...
June 14
2018: Hurricane Bud made landfall as a weak tropical storm in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
June 15
1991: Typhoon Yunya struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines, the same day that Mount Pinatubo erupted catastrophically.
June 16
1977: The GOES 2 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program for providing data for weather forecasting by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, GOES 2 would be followed by the launch of GOES 3 satellite exactly one year later.
June 17
2010: Forty-eight tornadoes touched down in Minnesota, the most ever recorded in a single day in that state.
June 18
2001: A tornado struck the small village of Siren, Wisconsin. Ironically, the community's only tornado siren was out of service, so many residents had no warning of the incoming storm. Three people were killed, and 16 injured.
June 19
1999: The QuikSCAT satellite, which measured winds over the world's oceans for more than 10 years, was launched.
June 20
2011: An outbreak of 37 tornadoes struck the Central United States, including five EF3 tornadoes in Kansas and Nebraska.
No situation needs the drama that humans bring to it.
I'm actually a really nice person. If you disagree with something I have done, I will be willing to discuss and reconsider my actions. I do not tolerate assuming bad faith or being overly harsh to new editors. But I am also slow to block and quick to forgive honest mistakes.
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My academic background
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I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the spring of 2008. I completed my Major Qualifying Project around the same time: a search for sand dune movement on Mars. I hope to turn it into an article at some point (see User:Runningonbrains/Aeolian processes on Mars if you'd like to help).
My main interest, however, is in meteorology, and I do a lot of research on the topic. At Texas A&M University I received my Master of Science in atmospheric science in August of 2011. My research involved baroclinic waves the Martian atmosphere, and my results were published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
I currently work as an Associate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working in the Research Applications Laboratory. I work on a bunch of different projects, including work on the operational NWP models, HRRR and GFS-FV3.
As far as my time on Wikipedia, my contributions will mainly be towards meteorology articles (especially tornadoes and other meso- to microscale phenomena), Mars, computer modeling and related subjects. I am the primary maintainer of Portal:Weather, however, I am currently fairly inactive due to my continuing adult responsibilities and recreations. I may become more active one of these days, but I'm probably kidding myself: there's too many things to do in this world that don't involve sitting behind a computer.
Here's what I've done:
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- My first two major projects
- Tornado: Nursed this article from a sloppy stub-like mess to an FA in about 9 months
- Eye (cyclone): My first FA created from scratch, this one took about 9 months as well, and had major help from User:Thegreatdr and User:Titoxd.
Tornado articles
During and after my project to improve Tornado, I created a long list of tornado-related articles.
- Codell, Kansas
- Enhanced Fujita Scale
- Four-State Tornado Swarm
- List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths
- 1899 New Richmond tornado
- 1989 Northeastern United States tornado outbreak
- Power flash
- Rear flank downdraft
- Severe weather
- Skipping tornado
- 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes
- Tornado intensity and damage
- Tornadoes in Bermuda
- Tornadoes in New England
- Tornadogenesis
- TOtable Tornado Observatory
- 1878 Wallingford tornado
Working on these
- /Aeolian processes on Mars
- /List of North American blizzards
- /1986 New England tornado outbreak
- /Tornado prediction and detection
Tornado lists
Later on, I began a very ambitious effort to make a series of nation-wide lists of tornadoes by state (currently, I've only done two + DC)
- Working on these
- User:Runningonbrains/Tornadoes in Israel
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Maine tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Massachusetts tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of New Hampshire tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Vermont tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Utah tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Idaho tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Wyoming tornadoes
Other articles created
Big surprise, more weather-related articles!
- List of weather records
- Mid-latitudes
- Rapid deepening
- Snow flurry
- Solenoid (meteorology)
- The Great Snow of 1717
- Zonal flow
- Trace (precipitation)
Articles re-written
- Annular hurricane: Before and after
- Tornadoes of 2001: Before and after
- Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado: before and after
- Tornado myths: before and after
WikiProjects
Was highly active in restarting WikiProject Meteorology, and created a new sub-project WikiProject Severe Weather.
Portals
Overhauled the Weather Portal, eventually improving it into a Featured Portal. I am currently actively maintaining this portal.
Milestones
- First edit: Hurricane Katrina talk page
- First mainspace edit: Very silly vandalism Although this was my friend, not really me.
- First constructive mainspace edit: List of Atlantic hurricanes
- First edit under my username: You're not going to believe it, but I started an article in my userspace
- 100th edit: Working on userspace version of my first from-scratch featured article
- First whack-a-vandal: Hurricane Gilbert
- 1,000th edit: Discussion on Hurricane Camille's importance
- First appearance on WP:MOSTEDITS: 5097 edits!
- First Huggle rv: Quonochontaug, Rhode Island
- 10,000th edit: Tagging/categorizing new article "Rough Wood"
- I am most proud of this edit.
- Admins make mistakes too.
Other Contributions
Works in progress
My ongoing Featured Topic projects
Me
So, about me, huh?
As I said, I have a BS in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After graduating, I attended Western Connecticut State University part-time for a year, taking atmospheric/oceanic science courses, before transferring to Texas A&M University's atmospheric science program. I graduated with a MS in atmospheric science in 2011, and in 2012 got a job at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. I've been obsessed with nature, especially meteorology, since I was very young. My first storm experience was in utero, when my mom was in the eye of Hurricane Gloria. At 10 a tornado skipped over my house, downing several trees in my back yard. Among my craziest childhood experiences were sitting outside with a -40ºF wind chill to watch blowing snow, climbing a mountain during a Nor'easter with 60 mph winds at the top, and getting caught in a hailstorm which formed right on top of me. As an adult, I now am lucky enough to live right next to tornado alley, and have been on dozens of storm chases that have yielded so many tornadoes I have lost count.
I also enjoy skiing, hiking, camping, and rock climbing.
Hopefully, someday, I'll get to sit through a good hurricane.
My randonimity*
*No, randonimity is not a word, but it sounds cool