User talk:Cyclone1/Archive2

RE: ALRIGHT

Thanks. I had to do what I had to do to save my favorite page. I wish the page wasn't up for deletion, but the Communist rules of Wikipedia state it must go. Thanks for the support. guitarhero777777 22:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

IRC

Hey, if you're there, could you go on the WPTC's IRC right now? Just go to http://www.ircatwork.com/ and type in a nickname (your username would be good), then type in "#wiki-hurricanes" in the box that says channel next to it. Hope to see you there; I'm really bored. íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 20:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you go on now? íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 01:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

So why are you logged on the IRC? íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 01:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Nvm. íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 01:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

FELLOW AMS MEMBER

A member of AMS who is 14 and lives in Orlando, wow, I might have to bring you on board in a few years to man our computers when we chase storms. I am a Lake Maryian (Seminole Co. rocks)and am 18, I love hurricanes...Andrewm Charley, and Wilma are my favs. Polk isn't that far away so we'd be happy to swing by and get you for a southern storm. And btw the youngest member of our crew is 15, his name is Jake and he likes Linkin Park, but Fort Minor seems to be his newer obssesion. Post on my talk page if you are interested.StormChaser666 19:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Tropical Cyclone Coincidences page of yours

I have noticed a few problems:

1. Ana,Beryl,Nicole and Hermine, all have only been Tropical Storms and not hurricanes.
2. Not gonna mention that Noel, Karl, Georges, Diana, Klaus, Lili, Floyd, Cleo, Ethel all were hurricanes and never tropical storms.
3. Not gonna mention that Marilyn was retired from 1995, replaced by Michelle in 2001 and was retired, being the only time that 2 names have been retired right after the 1st use. Allen-Andrew-Alex were split and Alicia-Allison-Andrea were split.

There is some ideas for you.Mitchazenia 20:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Do you mind if I edit a few things.Mitchazenia 20:51, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

All the things i listed are strange coincidences.Mitchazenia 20:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Good news-lots more information added.Mitchazenia 21:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm working on the Allison thing-i added picture of 1995 Allison and 1983 Alicia, because both are mentioned in the section.Mitchazenia 21:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd re-read that section.Mitchazenia 22:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #4

Number 4, September 3, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject now has its own IRC channel.

"Katrina is important to BS but BS is not important to the story of Katrina."

Storm of the month

Typhoon Saomai nearing its landfall in China

Typhoon Saomai (known as Typhoon Juan to PAGASA) claimed at least 441 lives and caused over $1.5 billion in damage. After forming on August 4 near Chuuk, the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Marianas, the Philippines, Taiwan and southeastern China. It started to intensify, and reached its official peak with winds of 95 knots (175 km/h, 110 mph) on August 9. The JTWC reported that it peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon the same day, a strength Chinese forecasters described as the most powerful to hit China in 50 years. Saomai maintained that strength until landfall on August 10 and dissipated inland the next day.

Other tropical cyclone activity

There were 16 other tropical cyclones during August, in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

• In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Chris moved to the north of Puerto Rico before dissipating on August 5 near Cuba.
• Tropical Storm Debby formed near the Cape Verde islands on August 21 but had no effects on land.
• Hurricane Ernesto formed in the Caribbean on August 24 and affected Haiti and Cuba, before making landfalls in Florida and South Carolina. It killed at least 5 people.
• In the east Pacific, Tropical Storm Fabio dissipated on August 3 well away from land.
• Tropical Storm Gilma formed on August 1 and lasted for two days before dissipating.
• Hurricane Hector reached its peak as a Category 2 hurricane on August 18 well away from land.
• Hurricane Ileana became the second major hurricane of the east Pacific season when it reached Category 3 intensity on August 23.
• Hurricane John formed near to Mexico on August 28 and to the northwest near the coast. It prompted a series of warnings from Michoacán to Baja California Sur, where it made landfall in September.
• Hurricane Kristy was briefly a hurricane on August 31, but its proximity to Hurricane John caused it to weaken soon after.
• Hurricane Ioke became the most intense Central Pacific hurricane on record on August 26 with a minimum pressure of 920 mbar. After crossing the dateline and becoming Typhoon Ioke it passed just to the north of Wake Island at Category 4 strength.
• Typhoon Prapiroon (Henry) reached its peak as a minimal typhoon in the South China Sea. It killed 77 people when it made landfall in China.
• Severe Tropical Storm Maria formed on August 4 and threatened Japanese coast.
• Severe Tropical Storm Bopha (Inday) passed over Taiwan as a tropical storm on August 9.
• Tropical Storm Wukong passed over Kyūshū on August 18.
• Tropical Storm Sonamu (Katring) was a minimal storm that was absorbed by Wukong on August 20.
• Tropical Depression 13W formed near Hainan on August 23 and soon made landfall in Guandong.

Main Page content

• Hurricane Mitch appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on August 16.
• Entries from List of Delaware hurricanes, Fiji Meteorological Service, Tropical Storm Helene (2000), Atlantic hurricane reanalysis and Hurricane Kyle (2002) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during August.
• Hurricane Katrina appeared on the Main Page in the On this Day column on August 29.

New articles and improvements wanted

• Landfall (meteorology) and Rapid deepening should be expanded.
• Direct hit (meteorology) and Cyclogenesis should be created.
• 2006 storm articles should be updated in light of the Tropical Cyclone Reports.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The August member of the month is Nilfanion. The WikiProject awards this to him for his contributions in many diverse sections of the project. Nilfanion joined the Wikiproject in April and provides track maps for the project and has produced a featured picture. He has developed the tropical cyclone Commons Category scheme in the process. In addition he has produced a number of quality articles and is active in assessment.

New and improved articles

• New storm articles include Cyclone Thelma, Typhoon Ewiniar (2006), Tropical Storm Otto (2004), Cyclone Heta (2003), Hurricane John (2006), Hurricane Kyle (2002), Hurricane Ioke and Hurricane Ernesto (2006).
• New non-storm articles include List of Delaware hurricanes, Fiji Meteorological Service and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis.
• New featured articles, lists and pictures: 2003 Pacific hurricane season, List of Delaware hurricanes and Global tropical cyclone tracks.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep
FA	10	13	16	15
A	7	6	6	7
GA	5	18	24	28
B	82	79	77	79
Start	168	180	191	200
Stub	10	8	8	8
Total	282	303	322	337
percentage ≥Less than B	63.1	62.0	61.8	61.7

Tropical cyclone imagery

When uploading an image of a tropical cyclone please

1. Download the highest resolution image possible to your computer, not a thumbnail.
2. If the image is free, upload it to Commons. In general, only upload to en.wikipedia if it is a Fair Use image. Wherever you upload, follow the instructions.
3. Preferably, include a link to the source image, not just the source site.
4. If you upload to Commons, add relevant Categories to the image, see the Commons category scheme. Make sure at least one category you add is the storm's category.

The following is a good image description:

{{Information

|Description=Visible image of Hurricane Ernesto on 2006-08-27 at peak strength just south of Haiti as seen by GOES-12.
|Source=Original image located here.
|Date=2006-08-27
|Author=The Naval Research Laboratory
|Permission={{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}

}}
[[Category:Hurricane Ernesto (2006)]] [[Category:NRL images of tropical cyclones|Ernesto (2006)]]

RE:Chris

Yeah thanks - I definately came close with Chris. I had my hopes up on Ernesto for a while when the NHC began to discuss the possiblity of it strengthening and paralleling FL, but the strengthening didn't occur, and it went a tad to far to the west to parallel the peninsula. I'm hoping to finish the rest of the storm write-ups soon, but now that the tropical color coding has been changed, my track maps don't correspond color-wise to anything else. Weatherman90 21:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Med Storm right now?

Nice find. It looks like a possible med storm, though one should probably wait 12 hours to see if it persists. If so, I might just have to add it in to the list :) Hurricanehink (talk) 20:30, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Heh

Hey neat, you're using my image for your hypothetical hurricane laura page. I was about to correct you on the flooding in Houston part, I'm glad it's put to good use! -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 05:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: TD 11 (1999)

Just some googling and making advantage of some of my favorites. The hardest part will be getting all of the info organized into the article. Hurricanehink (talk) 01:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #5

Number 5, October 1, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject has its own IRC channel.

"TD's should be bolded, as they are the impetus of every storm, weak or strong."

Storm of the month

Hurricane Ioke at peak strength

Hurricane Ioke is the most intense hurricane on record in the Central Pacific. After forming on August 19 to the south of Hawaii, Ioke moved to the northwest and hit Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane. It strengthened further as it moved to the west, reaching Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times, twice in the Central Pacific and once in the Western Pacific. After the storm entered the Western Pacific it directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• 4 hurricanes formed in the Atlantic: Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Gordon, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Isaac. Florence affected Bermuda and Newfoundland, and Gordon had effects in the Azores and Europe. Isaac is currently forecast to affect Newfoundland as an extratropical storm.
• The east Pacific saw three hurricanes and a tropical storm develop. Hurricane John and Hurricane Lane were both major hurricanes which hit Mexico, whilst Hurricane Kristy and Tropical Storm Miriam stayed clear of land. In addition, two tropical depressions formed in the Central Pacific.
• There were 4 typhoons in west Pacific during September. Typhoon Shanshan, Typhoon Yagi and Typhoon Xangsane formed in the west Pacific and Typhoon Ioke entered the basin from the east. Shanshan killed at least 9 people in Japan and Typhoon Xangsane, which is still active, killed at least 72 in the Philippines.
• Two tropical cyclones formed in the North Indian Ocean during September. Severe Cyclonic Storm Mukda formed in the Arabian Sea but did not affect land and Tropical Cyclone 05B formed in the Bay of Bengal before making landfall in India. However, the deadliest tropical system of September was a depression in the Bay of Bengal that killed more than 170 people in Bangladesh.

New and improved articles

• New storm articles include: Harry Cane of 1667, Hurricane Florence (2006), Hurricane Abby (1968) and Hurricane Lane (2006).
• New non-storm articles include: Monsoon trough, List of Pennsylvania hurricanes and Tropical cyclogenesis.
• New Good Articles include: Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane John (2006), Typhoon Saomai (2006) and Tropical Storm Danielle (1992).

Main Page content

• Hurricane Katrina appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on September 29.
• There were no Did you know mentions. Please check for an interesting fact in any new articles and submit it to Template talk:Did you know.

New articles and improvements wanted

• Pacific hurricane, Pacific typhoon, North Indian tropical cyclone...
• There are many many stub and start class articles on many topics, please improve these!
• How about David Roth (meteorologist)?

Storm article statistics

Grade	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
FA	13	16	15	15
A	6	6	7	6
GA	18	24	28	33
B	79	77	79	84
Start	180	191	200	201
Stub	8	8	8	13
Total	303	322	337	352
percentage ≥Less than B	62.0	61.8	61.7	60.8

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The September member of the month is Thegreatdr, David Roth. David Roth is a meteorologist at the wpc, who as part of his work there is producing Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data. Dozens of the maps he has created are used in Wikipedia articles. He has produced a number of valuable articles to the project such as tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season.

Unspecified source for Image:Hurricane Huron.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Hurricane Huron.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. – Chacor 08:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

My sandbox article

Hi. Thanks for putting a comment in my talk page. I realize that in order to create a sandbox article, I needed to convert the units between metric and Imperial. Luckily I know how to convert the numbers, and I will do so soon. This storm that I'm writing this sandbox article on wasn't just in Fort Erie and Buffalo. It affected large portions of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nunavut, the Canadian Maritimes, New York State, Northeastern US, and Northern US. Even large Cities like Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Thunder Bay, Rochester, and Winnepeg got affected. I also commented about this storm on the 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Talk Page. Anyway, I'm trying to improve this article over time, and it should be completed sometime this month. I'm just not exactly sure where to get the citations from. Again, thanks for putting a message im my talk page. AstroHurricane001 17:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Your Hypopethical hurricanes page

I read your hypopethical hurricanes page, and on the Hurricane Laura article there's an apparent spelling mistake that might confuse some people. On one of the sentences, theres a phrase saying formed fromed. I think you may have meant formed from. I left this comment because I wasn't sure if you gave permission for anyone to edit your subpages. Other than that, I think it's a pretty good article, nice job! AstroHurricane001 17:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:You just missed him...

I actually did notice him, Gertzy entered the project on October 7 and left on the same day!!!!! I asked Hurricanehink about Australian users about a month before I first knew about Gertzy. :-) RaNdOm26 05:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Beryl

You could put it up for deletion. If you were to do that, it would go under Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion. If you already redirected it, or want to delete your redirects, put {{rfd}} at the top of the page, and it'll be deleted later. So, now that you're not going to Beryl, what's next on your todo list? :) Talk to you later. Hurricanehink (talk) 15:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, one's own user subpages can be speedily deleted, so MFD is not necessary. Just tag it {{db-owner}}. – Chacor 15:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, you know, Atlantic storms have the most info out there. No where else has as much info, and good info. For Beryl, I'm positive there was more information out there. Well, what about redoing an existing article? At times, it can be as fun as making a new article (sometimes more fun), but it's more useful. We need more good articles, but unfortunately we're mainly making good news articles. The old articles are left in bad shape until someone later on fixes it. Take a look at this page. All of the articles in orange or red need to be redone eventually. All of them. If you're worried about info, what about a retired storm? You did an alright job with Roxanne (1995), but you didn't go far enough. If you prefer a US one for info, what about Hurricane Fran? That has a good base, but just needs more content (preparations, aftermath, more impact). Good luck with whatever you choose. Hurricanehink (talk) 16:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. Good luck. Hurricanehink (talk) 16:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

You should do it right in the article. Whenever you plan to do a lot of editing, put {{inuse}} at the top of the page so no one will edit it while you're editing it. The reason you shouldn't copy and paste it is because copy and paste moves are very bad. It violates the GNU Free Documentation License that allows Wikipedia to use other sources. Yea, just try and do it right in the article. Hurricanehink (talk) 16:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually im doing the Beryl 1994 article (if i ever get to it though). Storm05 16:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Articles you plan on making

I noticed that you and Storm05 were briefly planning working separately on the same storm (Beryl 94). To avoid such problems, please post what articles you intend to publish in the near future here. Only put the ones you are currently working and will finish soon, or ones you will be starting and working on soon (meaning if you haven't worked on it for a while, don't list it). Thanks. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Heh, ok. Hurricanehink (talk) 19:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Seriously? Otis did nothing. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, cool. Based on what he has, I doubt he'll even publish it. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Heh, true about Lee, but I doubt Storm05's the type of person who would go to those lengths just to publish an article. Me, on the other hand... ;) Hurricanehink (talk) 20:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Aww, don't say that. You just have to find a way to find the info. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Heh, true. That's why retired storms are easier :P Hurricanehink (talk) 20:19, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Cool, good luck, again. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that is freaking amazing! Thanks a million! I'm gonna have to make this short so I can enjoy it some more :) Hurricanehink (talk) 21:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Yea! Hurricanehink (talk) 21:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:Confusion

Very confusing indeed, but behold - I have answers. I was in the second grade only in the spring of 1999. I entered third grade in the fall of 1999. I'm assuming that you must have just started the second grade in the fall of 1999 and then started third grade in the fall of 2000. So that puts us a year apart there. Then I skipped a grade at the end of middle school so that's where the two years comes from. Since 'school years' span between two years it can make things very confusing. Weatherman90 22:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

No Problem. :) Weatherman90 22:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:My Chemical Romance

It is from the chorus of Thank You for the Venom, from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 18:22, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Whoa!

I didn't realize you had had an account a whole 10 days before I did! I didn't here of you for a little while longer, and that's when I thought you created your account. Weird. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 12:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage headers

Hi, I left the same note for Icelandic Hurricane...

Sorry to blow your bubble here, guys, but I'm concerned about copyright violation with lyrics on userpages. Please clear it with an admin, just to be safe.

– Chacor 12:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Not really, just clear it with any admin or two. Myself, I would not encourage having it, but if you really want it, I'd definitely advise you to check. – Chacor 02:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I think you might be okay, because you're not posting the full lyrics of the song, which is a big no-no here. Still, it might be a good idea to get a second opinion. --Coredesat 01:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #6

Number 6, November 5, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject has its own IRC channel.

"THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC ADVISORY ISSUED ON THIS USER UNLESS REGENERATION OCCURS"

Storm of the month

Xangsane to the east of the Philippines

Typhoon Xangsane, known as Typhoon Milenyo in the Philippines was a destructive typhoon that affected the Philippines and Indochina. The storm caused severe flooding and landslides in the regions it affected and was responsible for at least 279 deaths and $747 million (USD) in damage, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam. Xangsane formed to the east of the Philippines and rapidly intensified, striking Samar Island as a Category 4 typhoon. It weakened over the Philippines, but again reached Category 4 strength in the South China Sea. After its landfall in Vietnam, the typhoon dissipated, with its remnant crossing Indochina and entering the Bay of Bengal.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Hurricane Isaac, which formed in September, hit Newfoundland with minimal effects on October 2. It was the only Atlantic storm in October.
• One hurricane, Hurricane Paul, formed in the eastern Pacific and hit Mexico. There were also two tropical storms, Norman and Olivia, and two tropical depressions in the basin.
• In addition to Typhoon Xangsane, two further typhoons and two tropical storms developed in the west Pacific. Typhoon Soulik and Tropical Storms Bebinca and Rumbia both stayed clear of land, whilst Typhoon Cimaron hit the Philippines killing at least 19 people there, before it dissipated in the South China Sea.
• The North Indian Ocean saw one storm, Cyclonic Storm Ogni form in the Bay of Bengal.
• The 2006-2007 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season got underway, with Tropical Cyclone Xavier forming to the west of Fiji. There were two further tropical depressions in the South Pacific and a tropical disturbance in the South Indian Ocean.

New articles and improvements wanted

• Articles are wanted for Hurricane Flossy (1956), Tropical Storm Debbie (1965) and Tropical Storm Beryl (1994).
• The articles on the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres, such as those on the NHC, JMA and CPHC, all need work.
• Likewise the articles on meteorologists such as Lixion Avila are poor.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The October Member of the Month is Coredesat. Coredesat joined the WikiProject in March and has contributed to many diverse areas within the project. He has written two featured articles on Atlantic storms and a number of good articles on current typhoons. However, the article he is most proud of is a disambiguation page, a sorely neglected portion of the project.

Main Page content

• Global tropical cyclone tracks appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Picture on October 3.
• Entries from Hurricane Alberto (2000), Typhoon Xangsane (2006), Tropical Storm Bertha (2002) and Hurricane Bob (1985) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during October.

New and improved articles

• New storm articles include: Hurricane Alberto (2000), Tropical Depression Nine (2003), Hurricane Paul (2006) and Tropical Storm Peter (2003).
• A non-storm article was made on Pacific hurricane.
• New featured content: List of Delaware hurricanes, 2004 Atlantic hurricane season and 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
• Significantly improved articles include: Hurricane Erika (2003) (A), Hurricane Linda (1997) (GA), Hurricane Ophelia (2005) (GA), Subtropical Storm Nicole (2004) (GA) and Hurricane Danny (2003).

Storm article statistics

Grade	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
FA	16	15	15	16
A	6	7	6	7
GA	24	28	33	48
B	77	79	84	83
Start	191	200	201	210
Stub	8	8	13	11
Total	322	337	352	375
percentage ≥;Less than B	61.8	61.7	60.8	58.9

Tropical cyclone scales

The various agencies which report on tropical cyclones use a variety of different scales to measure the storms strength. The most familiar of these is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and this is the de facto standard in the project and should be used everywhere. However, as it is only official in the Atlantic and East Pacific, other local scales should be used when discussing storms in other regions and given primacy over the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The Saffir-Simpson scale is based on 1-minute averages, but other scales are generally based upon 10-minute averages, which are approximately 15% lower.

This table provides a useful-at-a-glance comparison of the various scales currently in use. Further complications arise due to the fact different agencies obtain different estimates for the same storm at the same time, so be careful to use the most appropriate source agency.

Hypothetical hurricanes

Hello Cyclone1, its me Alastor Moody. Sorry if I've been unactive for a long time since I was busy in real life but I've now returned. When I saw your old hypothetical hurricane articles, they were good articles with rich info and I was awed by your brilliant mind, but something gave me the chills that when you mentioned about the possiblities of these hurricanes, they had dates like 2008 and 2010 and stuff. But about those dates, those "imaginery" cyclones haven't really appeared yet but what if those cyclones you mentioned somehow and mysteriously became true, causing a curse on whoever and wherever if was and causing massive deaths and damages. So I prefered you'd rather use dates such as year of 1996 or 2002 because we don't want a hurricane producing an F5 tornado overland killing many innoncent cilivians in the future like what happened in Hurricane Katrina last year. Although those storms never existed and is purely fanatasy , it will be much more safer and better for sake of the many people who worry about it. thanx:-) — Alastor Moody _{(T + C + U)} 08:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: No Way!

Wow, that is sweet! I hope they go back to the beginning of 1979, unlike 1983 which started on July 1. I'd like to see 1979's Ana (only June TS east of the Lesser Antilles), though other storms in that time period I'd like to see would be Bob and Claudette in 1979. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Yea, all of them would be good. I'd really like to see the whole track of Ivan 80... seeing where it came from and such. Hurricanehink (talk) 22:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Your sig

Hey, I noticed that your sig takes up a lot of space and uses excessive code, which can annoy some people when they're posting on talk pages. However, I've devised a version that produces identical output, but has much less code, so it won't bother people as much. Here's the code:

<font color="dark blue">→[[User:Cyclone1|'''''Cycl''''']]</font><font color="steelblue">[[User talk:Cyclone1|'''''one1''''']]→</font>

It produces the following output: →Cyclone1→

--Coredesat 23:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I think I fixed it...essentially all I did was remove the <span style=></span> tags, which aren't really needed (especially for Cycl, because you had it set at 100%, which doesn't change the size at all). --Coredesat 23:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, "one1" isn't going to link anywhere if I post it here, because this is your user talk page. Links that go to the page you're already on are deactivated (and turned black unless you turn them a different color). There's a test version on my sandbox page. --Coredesat 23:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh! And the links are always going to change color if they're to pages you've recently visited. "Cycl" will be a different color if you've recently been to your user page. Clear your browser cache and try it again - it should be correct. --Coredesat 23:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm...I'm stumped, actually...never mind the whole thing, unless someone else can figure it out. I might ask for help on getting the sig to work right while saving code. --Coredesat 23:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hypothetical hurricanes

Hey. Just wanted to let you know that a Scratchpad Wikia for fake hurricanes has been started (with an infobox and everything), so you may want to consider moving all your fake stuff there, where you can do as you please without others chasing you around here for violating Wikipedia policy. (If you do choose to do so, remember to tag your stuff here for speedy deletion if you transfer your stuff there). Cheers, – Chacor 09:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Made an uncomplete article on Hurricane Mark (hypothetical). — Alastor Moody _{(T + C + U)} 00:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Made an incomplete article on Hurricane Alessa (hypothetical) platyfish625 02:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Bertha image

Just to let you know, you should link to the exact location of the Bertha Modis image, not to the overall archive. Hurricanehink (talk) 23:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Randy! Hope you had a good one. Hurricanehink (talk) 03:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: 81, 82, and first half of 83

When I saw that in my watchlist, my heart jumped and I knew immediately what it meant. That's awesome! Hopefully by Christmas they have the rest done (last year the site went operational around Christmas or New Years, I think). Too bad it's only WPAC and SHEM near Australia (no really interesting storms). Hurricanehink (talk) 03:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, that is pretty big. Hurricanehink (talk) 03:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW, I can't wait until they get to Tip in 1979. I've never seen a good image presenting it well in the WPAC, so that'll be great. Hurricanehink (talk) 03:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Good news, first half of 83 is done for the Atlantic! Hurricanehink (talk) 20:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: January...

Aw crap, thanks. Hurricanehink (talk) 22:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:: Satellite images

You should go here [1] and download HRPT Reader first. The data is all available at [2]. So far I have only tried it with data from NOAA satellites, which comes under AVHRR. Here's a tutorial on how to use CLASS [3]. Once you load the data, you just fiddle with it in RGB or False-color. It comes up looking warped, but you can save it to correct for the bow-tie effect. Good kitty 18:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey I noticed the Bob pic you did. Good find, but you should probably use RGB mode instead of false-color (most of the time). You can later use a photo-editing program to reduce the saturation of blues and yellows. Good kitty 16:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

YouTube

I think a link to your account page is okay, just don't link anything that violates copyright. – Chacor 01:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Heh, thanks, happy belated to you, too. – Chacor 01:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #7

Number 7, December 22, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. This shortened late issue covers just global tropical cyclone activity in November, to prevent the next newsletter from being too large.

Tropical cyclone activity

• One hurricane, Hurricane Sergio, formed in the eastern Pacific. Sergio was the longest lasting November Pacific hurricane recorded. Two other tropical cyclones, Tropical Storm Rosa and a tropical depression formed in the basin. None of the systems affected land.
• An unusual extratropical cyclone developed in the northern central Pacific, resembling a subtropical cyclone at its peak.
• A total of three typhoons formed in the western Pacific, and all the storms followed a similar track across the Philippines. Typhoon Cimaron formed at the end of October and lasted into November, killing 19 people. Typhoon Chebi existed during the middle of the month and was the weakest of the three causing minor damages. The most devastating storm of the month, Typhoon Durian hit the Philippines on November 30, killing at least 720 people in the island nation.
• Two named cyclones developed in the Southern Hemisphere, Tropical Cyclone Yani in the South Pacific and Moderate Tropical Storm Anita in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Two unnamed depression also formed in the South Pacific. None of these storms affected land.

Editorial

The lateness of this edition is due to me being on an wikibreak and no-one taking up the slack. My wikibreak was the result of a lightning strike damaging my internet connection and frying my router, and the time taken for the replacement to arrive. As this issue is almost 3 weeks later than planned, only the monthly cyclone activity for November has been included. The next letter will be produced for January 7, 2006 and will be larger than normal to cover both month's Wikipedia news and December's tropical activity. There will be no Member or Storm of the month in January, to reduce the length; and the newsletter will return to normal in February.--Nilfanion (talk) 21:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

My Hurricane Gordon rant

This is me memorializing the disaster, urging remembrance and venting my emotions. The vast majority of it is non-explicit but it is somewhat melodramatic (as rants often are). The final paragraph is a bit blue and it's marked with a warning to protect sensitive ears. I thought you might like to see this page because you were one of the users who seemed to share my opinions when we chewed over it late last year on the 1994 AHS talk page. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 02:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

your subpage

What do you mean by "it died"? It looks perfectly fine to me, and no edits were made to the subpage since November. AstroHurricane001 22:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #8

Number 8, January 7, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject has its own IRC channel.

Tropical cyclone activity

• Three tropical cyclones existed in the West Pacific during December. Typhoon Durian (Reming) was the deadliest and strongest of the three, killing over 800 people, in the Philippines and Vietnam and peaking at Category 4 strength. Typhoon Utor lasted formed on December 7 and lasted for 7 days, passing over the Philippines and causing severe floods in Malaysia. The final storm of the year, Tropical Storm Trami, lasted for three days and did not affect land.
• The Southern Hemisphere saw a number of storms develop during December. The most significant was Cyclone Bondo, which hit Madagascar on December 23. Cyclone Anita dissipated early in the month, having formed in November and Cyclone Clovis developed on December 30 before reaching its peak in January. All of these storms were in the Southwest Indian Ocean, the only other cyclone was Cyclone Isobel that formed on December 31 to the north of Western Australia.

The Portal Portal:Tropical cyclones is designed as the entry point to the WikiProject's work and is recognised as a Featured Portal. The structure emulates that of Wikipedia's Main page and needs updating in a similar manner. The following are the key sections that need editorial attention:

• Selected article: This is one of the articles of the project, rotated on a weekly basis. These are selected from the better-quality articles and discussed at Portal talk:Tropical cyclones/Selected article.
• Selected picture: This is chosen from the pictures used in the articles and is rotated monthly. It is selected in a similar manner to the article on Portal talk:Tropical cyclones/Selected picture.
• Did you know: This is rotated as new articles are created and contains an interesting fact from a few of the new articles.
• Active tropical cyclones: The currently active tropical cyclones are listed here, and are linked to appropriately.
• Tropical cyclone news: Recent events in Tropical cyclone activity, such as formation, landfalls and dissipation of storms.
• Anniversaries: This significant anniversaries for each day in the last week. Unlike the others it refreshes automatically, but should be updated if a new significant event occurs.
• Things you can do: Unlike the other sections which are reader orientated, this is aimed at editors to give suggestions of articles to work on.

Please keep all of these sections up-to-date and refresh them as new tropical cyclones develop and articles are created. Also please keep the suggestions to editors current and fresh.

New articles and improvements wanted

These tasks are those listed at Portal:Tropical cyclones/Things you can do:

• Requests: Original-content tropical cyclone articles: Papua New Guinea National Weather Service, Herbert S. Saffir, Hurricane Ginny (1963)
• Copyedit: Rapid deepening
• Wikify:
• Merge: See here
• Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Cyclone Leon-Eline
• Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Carla, Hurricane Gilbert, Typhoon Nina (1975), 1970 Bhola cyclone, Typhoon Tip
• Stubs: Intertropical Convergence Zone, Kamikaze (typhoon), Typhoon Paka, Harry Cane of 1667, Hurricane Edna, Hurricane Janet More...
• Update: Tropical Storm Beryl (2006)

Main Page content

• Entries from 9 project articles, including Tropical cyclone observation, Bill Proenza, Hurricane Tanya (1995) and Hurricane Erin (2001) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during the past two months.
• 1970 Bhola cyclone and Cyclone Tracy appeared on the Main Page in the On this Day column on November 13 and December 24, respectively.

New articles

November

Storm Articles included: Typhoon Muifa (2004), Hurricane Helene (2006), Hurricane Allison (1995) and Cyclone Heta.

Non-storm articles included: Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New Jersey, South Pacific convergence zone and 1969 Pacific hurricane season.

December

Storm Articles included: Hurricane Tanya (1995), Tropical Storm Dean (1995) and Tropical Storm Beryl (2000)

Non-storm articles included: Storm (novel), Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, List of fictional tropical cyclones and Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center.

Improved articles

Featured articles: Hurricane Edith (1971), Hurricane Fabian, Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina, Tropical Storm Bill (2003), 1995 Pacific hurricane season, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, Hurricane Erika (2003), Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004) and Tropical Storm Edouard (2002).

Featured lists: List of Baja California hurricanes and List of retired Pacific hurricane names.

Two articles were promoted to A-Class: Tropical cyclone and Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware.

There were a total of 32 new good articles including: Tropical cyclogenesis, Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, Hurricane Keith, Hurricane Fico, Tropical Storm Dean (2001) and Tropical Storm Arlene (2005).

Storm article statistics

Grade	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
FA	15	16	19	23
A	6	7	6	2
GA	33	48	57	74
B	84	83	78	71
Start	201	210	200	193
Stub	13	11	15	16
Total	352	375	375	379
percentage Less than B	60.8	58.9	57.3	55.1

Image:Hurr_jerryfake.PNG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Hurr_jerryfake.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MECU≈talk 00:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

The silence is deafening

Damn the tropics are quiet. There hasn't been so much as an official invest anywhere on the planet in the past week and a half. I think JTWC had a "poor" listing last week that stood for about 12hrs. That's it; zippo since Isobel dissipated over Western Australia. The tropics are supposed to be very active with the whole global warming thing everyone's talking about. But for the past year plus, they've been descidedly less so. Ever since the Atlantic went to see a therapist, the Earth has kind of chilled out on the hurricane front. Interesting. I'm kind of enjoying this lull; saves money on coffins. I hope the boxer isn't just taking a breather between rounds. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 01:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

;D You been spyin' on my conversations, Cyclone 1? Why do you want rain? I like good weather. If it's good, why question it. I don't try to put reason on weather, I just go with it. Overthinking is hard on the brain. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 04:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Discussion 1

Yea, I needed a bit of a change :) There'll be more advisories in the future, too. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #9

Number 9, February 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list."The NHC is the official basin for the Atlantic."^[4]

Storm of the month

Cyclone Clovis approaching Madagascar

Cyclone Clovis was named late on December 31 near to Tromelin Island. Clovis strengthened as it moved to the southwest reaching its peak the same day with 60 knot winds (according to Météo-France). The JTWC intensified Clovis more slowly, and assessed that it reached its peak with 65 knot winds on January 2, as it was nearing the Madagascar coast. The JTWC maintained this strength until it made landfall on the island on January 3. The resulting floods damaged a number of structures in Mananjary and about 1,500 people had to be evacuated.^[5]

Other tropical cyclone activity
The only activity during January was in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.

• Dora, the second cyclone the Southwest Indian Ocean formed late in January well to the east of Réunion; and reached tropical cyclone strength at the start of February.
• The two storms in the South Pacific, Zita and Arthur followed very similar tracks to the east of the Dateline. The JTWC estimated that Zita reached its peak on January 23 and Arthur briefly had hurricane force winds two days later.
• Cyclone Isobel formed between Indonesia and Australia late in December and headed south, making landfall in Western Australia on January 3 as a minimal Tropical Cyclone.

New articles and improvements wanted

• Articles are wanted for each of the tropical cyclone breakpoints (see this list).
• An article is wanted for Tropical Storm Debbie (1965).
• The Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons articles need splitting into the 3 component basins.
• This sandbox for Typhoon Durian badly needs completion, please help.
• Large chunks of the project's imagery needs proper categorization.
• The number of stubs has markedly increased in the past few months, please improve them.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The January member of the month is Chacor, formerly known as NSLE. Chacor joined the project in November 2005, and has contributed to a wide variety of articles across the project. Recently he has generally focussed on the West Pacific and did most of the work on the first Good article in that basin: Typhoon Ewiniar (2006). He has also started the much needed process of splitting the Southern Hemisphere seasonal articles. Finally, Chacor is probably the user who maintains the quality of the most visible part of the project, the current activity.

Main Page content

• Hurricane Juan appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on January 29.
• Entries from 3 articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Ignacio (2003) and Hurricane Bob (1979) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during June.

New and improved articles

• The WikiProject has its first Featured topic on Retired Pacific hurricanes.
• New Featured articles: Hurricane Ismael, Hurricane Juan and the Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware and Maryland and Washington D.C..
• New Wikipedia:Good articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Iwa, Hurricane Alice, Hurricane Kenna and 1936 Atlantic hurricane season.
• New articles include: Hurricane Ignacio (2003), Hurricane Cindy (1963), Hurricane Isaac (2006) and Chris Landsea.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb
FA	16	19	23	25
A	7	6	2	2
GA	48	57	74	75
B	83	78	71	76
Start	210	200	193	195
Stub	11	15	16	16
Total	375	375	379	389
percentage Less than B	58.9	57.3	55.1	54.2

A quick note: When you create a new article please list it in the appropriate section on the project's page and add a fact from the article to the Portal. Thanks.