How should the featured picture be rotated? Should it be weekly, like the featured article? Or daily, or monthly? Should we just change it ad-hoc? Is it time to be rotated now? Jdorje03:33, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
How about we do it at the beginning of every month? I nominate the picture to the right, without the bottom part. It shows a rare spectacle of a hurricane, having small features inside an eyewall. In addition, Isabel is a fairly well known. If that picture is stupid or something, I would like to nominate the picture to the left. Wilma is simply amazing with its 2 mile wide, and that is simply one of the most awesome hurricane pictures I have ever seen. Hurricanehink04:02, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
That picture of Isabel is fantastic. But how about a Western Pacific picture for once. Try this one on for size: [1] Two super typhoons for the price of 1! Look at Paka: [2]. Nida: [3]. Mitch was an exceptionally photogenic storm:
[4], [5], this place has a bunch of great Mitch pics: [6]. I know we just had a Floyd picture but look at this: [7]. That is very impressive. That picture of Hurricane Emily:
, looks really good. So there are a lot of options. Personally, I think many of these including the Isabel pic are better than that one of Wilma. Wilma sadly wasn't as photogenic as her predecessor Gilbert. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive23:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The wilma pic is extremely impressive. However it's important to realize all of wilma's time as a super-intense hurricane happened at night. The picture we have now was taken just after dawn, so the clouds are still pretty dark. And remember that at the time the picture was taken hurricane-force winds extended outwards only about 15 miles from the eye center. Jdorje23:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It should be noted that any images taken by NASA using MODIS should be uploaded in their highest resolution format. At lower resolutions the borders are bolder and showing right through the clouds. I've noticed a number of images like this, and I would fix them myself if it would let me. For example, I would consider this [8] one a bad choice to use because there are larger ones available. Also, as we've discovered, images shouldn't be much larger than 4000x4000 pixels because wikipedia has trouble displaying them. Good kitty07:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
But those two are contradictory! We should be uploading them at maximum resolution, but because of the obnoxious technical limitations we can't always do so. Jdorje07:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's a good picture, but we already had it (and we had it up when the Catarina article was selected, too). Although it was before we had the "rotating" pics, so we could bring it back sometime. For the moment I went ahead and put up an Emily pic (suggested above...and maybe it's appropriate since the TCR should come out this month). I just now read EBrown's suggestion that the month should correspond to the picture...Catarina was in March so maybe it could be next month. Jdorje00:16, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Emily sounds good, and I'm glad you're doing the by-monthly thing (BTW, it was my idea, but no biggie). Nothing much has happened in the month of February, so hopefully the Emily report will come out for your sake ;-) Catarina sounds good for March, so why don't we discuss April a bit while we're right here. Ana comes to mind, but there's no good pictures of it. There's always the 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone, but the images we have aren't the best of quality. There were some powerful Southern Hemisphere cyclones during the month of April, but we have time to discuss it. Hurricanehink00:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The hurricane in the small photo (Gafilo) is a March cyclone. It hit Madagascar with Category 5 strength, although I don't think the storm in the picture is that strong yet. Good kitty02:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I went ahead and made Catarina for March, though for a few hours there was nothing. We should talk now what April's should be. I think we should have the featured picture represent a storm from the month it is featured in, so for April it should either be Ana, the 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone, or some southern hemisphere storm. Please discuss. Hurricanehink17:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The Adolph one was taken at an angle instead of directly above. I replaced the low resolution version (which should never be used) on this one. It's sitting right on top of the Philippines. Good kitty13:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good find and good work on that one. I'll add it for the May one. So we don't wait too long, what should June's be? I'm thinking Allison (2001) or Carlotta. Allison could work well, seeing as there hasn't been a tropical storm yet. Hurricanehink20:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yay. And speaking of radar images, I found some of Hurricane Emily (1993) that look like they would go well on Wikipedia, but I don't know if we can use them. You can find them on google if you do an image search titled "hurricane emily (1993) radar". Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk)16:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fine with me. I also realized that Claudette had been the TCportal FA. So it would've been on there twice (Or we could have Elida in August and have a North Indian cyclone in July, since there have been no North Indian Cyclones in August). Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk)17:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I hope you don't mind, but I put in Elida, seeing as we're doing the monthly thing. For August, we have a lot of choices. Seeing as we haven't had a WPAC for a few months, what about a pic of Chaba and Aere? It's impressive of Chaba, and Aere's not too bad either. While I'm thinking of it, September could be a pic of the Four Simultaneous hurricanes in 1998. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ohh.. I'm really getting carried away, but what about Keith at peak intensity. I think it looks really cool. That would be September or maybe October, but most likely September. íslenskahurikein #12(samtal)18:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ehh, Alberto never looked that good, and isn't good enough for FP, IMO. Keith could work, but let's wait until August before we talk about September's, come to think of it. Hurricanehink (talk) 02:14, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely agree to the Eye picture, there's more to tropical cyclones than satellite pictures. Why should we restrict ourselves to pictures of the storms all the time anyway? We invariably have a satellite pic on the portal from the selected article anyway, and the storm picture in the introduction... All we have to do is be selective. I suggest we try and use a satellite/radar pic for the Picture iff the selected article is not a storm. I suggest we use Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded.jpg at some point (perhaps time it so its up at the end of August?).--Nilfanion (talk) 23:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Don't like the NRL markings, should've been cropped out. Also, the image source link doesn't work, so that needs fixing. – Chacor01:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to set up at least the next three months of pictures. I'm trying to think of what hasn't been done yet - maybe a radar image? I think the pictures have to be ones that we have access to at full resolution.
Strong oppose to all of these except the 4 simultaneous TC's and H Alice (at least its not a satellite picture). Use something else please (damage?). The portal is devalued by always having satellite pics of TCs and nothing else, as the article is invariably going to be a storm article; select something different for the pic! TS Allison's HPC rainfall graphic is an example of this.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thats reasonable ;) Guys we don't need either the picture or the article to relate to the month it is shown in the Portal on. By doing so we have to drag the bottom of the barrel at the start of the year and lose out on many good choices, simply because there are TONS in Aug/Sep.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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