User:Thegreatdr/DYK
DYK - Fiji Meteorological Service
[edit]Many thanks for the contribution -- Samir धर्म 01:58, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
DYK: Thanksgiving 1984 Nor'easter
[edit]--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 16:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
DYK!: Late November 2006 Nor'easter
[edit]--Aksi_great (talk) 18:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Did You Know? Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950
[edit]. --GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 17:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
DYK: New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm
[edit](on behalf of Sandstein) BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
DYK: 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm
[edit]Thanks very much greatdr! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:12, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you know? Abbott Lawrence Rotch
[edit]--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 15:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you know? Xavier William Proenza & Tropical Cyclone Observation
[edit]--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 17:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you know about the Shamal (wind)?
[edit]-- Well done on another great article! GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 01:03, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
DYK - Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
[edit]Hello The Greatdr and thankyou for creating this interesting article. Titoxd kindly nominated your article for inclusion. Feel free to self-nom in future. Keep stormin'...Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
DYK about Hurricane Flossy (1956)?
[edit]--Yomanganitalk 13:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
DYK about the subtropical ridge?
[edit]-- ALoan (Talk) 15:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Ivan Ray Tannehill, was selected for DYK!
[edit]Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 23:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
DYK: Tropical Cyclone Forecasting
[edit]--Carabinieri 15:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
DYK: Kona Low
[edit]--Aquarius • talk 15:57, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Climate of Florida, was selected for DYK!
[edit]Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 23:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
[edit]--howcheng {MFEM} 18:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
DYK - Robert Case
[edit]Blnguyen (bananabucket) 09:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
An article which you started, or significantly expanded, surface weather observation, was selected for DYK!
[edit]Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 16:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
DYK for Rainbands
[edit]Gatoclass (talk) 09:25, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Quantitative precipitation forecast
[edit]--Dravecky (talk) 21:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Typhoon Wayne (1986)
[edit]Dravecky (talk) 09:25, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK for sprites (lightning)
[edit]Gatoclass (talk) 14:04, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- Congratulations on your sprites (lightning) hook. As shown on the DYK Stats page, the hook drew 18,300 views to the article while it was on DYK. That's the 4th most for the month of February. Top 4 listed below. Keep up the good work! Cbl62 (talk) 04:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Article | Image | DYK views | DYK hook |
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Bacon Explosion | 40,500 | ... that the 5,000-calorie Bacon Explosion (pictured) was created in response to a Twitter challenge to develop "the ultimate bacon recipe"? | |
chicken fried bacon | File:Sodolak's chicken fried bacon.jpg | 26,500 | ... that the recipe for chicken fried bacon (pictured) was developed in the small town of Snook, Texas, at Sodolak's Original Country Inn? |
Cathy Wayne | 20,700 | ... that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War, when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing? | |
sprites (lightning) | File:BigRed(thumb).jpg | 18,300 | ... that sprites (pictured), large but very brief reddish forms of lightning that occur high over thunderstorms, were not photographed until 1989? |
DYK for Westerlies
[edit]Orlady (talk) 00:00, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Wake low
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DYK for Braer Storm of January 1993
[edit]Hello! Your submission of Braer Storm of January 1993 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! cmadler (talk) 17:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist (talk) 12:33, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Weather ship
[edit]On 25 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Weather ship, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:03, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Weather buoy
[edit]On 7 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Weather buoy, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that automated weather buoys (example pictured) have been deployed to record weather information from the Earth's oceans since 1951? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Atmospheric model
[edit]On 21 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Atmospheric model, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that atmospheric models were not able to outperform statistical models in forecasting tropical cyclone tracks until the 1990s? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Thanks for this contribution to Wikipedia Victuallers (talk) 18:04, 21 February 2011 (UTC)