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~ Question ~

Hey! what is a ‎MH Article:? ~mitch~ (talk) 04:43, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

@Mitchellhobbs: An article discussing the meteorological history. I will likely just make one myself and publish it after the storm dissipates so it has better flow and we dont have to worry about the infobox needing updated there too. Noah^Talk 10:31, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian Wow! Looks great Noah ~ very informative ~ ~mitch~ (talk) 20:05, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

@Mitchellhobbs: Glad you like it thus far, but it isn't complete just yet. Noah^Talk 20:30, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian

On 19 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hurricane Dorian (pictured) was the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Cyclone_other_basin

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Season summary of the 2019 PTS article deletion

Hi I have started a discussion in the talk page for that (unnecessary) article for a speedy deletion request and feel free to join if you want. However I may just really delete and just merge it with main 2019 PTS article instead. Typhoon2013 (talk) 05:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

@Typhoon2013: That content has too many issues to be merged... the whole thing needs rewritten and sourced. Noah^Talk 10:59, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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I got your message

Hi Hurricane Noah! Sorry I missed your PM. I definitely understand your thinking when it comes to the username you reported, Force thirteen. However, I also think that it's too ambiguous to rule it as a violation of Wikipedia's username policy and justify taking administrative action. However, if a user with a borderline or questionable username start causing disruption or adding vandalism to the project, such usernames can be factored into the decision to block the account sooner. Keep an eye on things, and please do not hesitate to let me know if the user starts causing disruption or other issues, and I'll be happy to look into the matter further. Thanks again for the message, and I wish you a great day and happy editing! :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:44, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

@Oshwah: Please see Force Thirteen... In this case, the user name looks as if it is impersonating the Force Thirteen company/organization. Noah^Talk 02:09, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Hurricane Noah - Ohhhhh!!! I thought you believed the username to be a UPOL violation because it might be referring to.... never mind... LOL. You might be correct with your thoughts regarding the username of this account, but I don't see any edits that establish this to be true to a reasonable degree of certainty. We should watch the user and wait for them to make additional edits so that their username becomes more clear. If this happens, and the user's edits begin to demonstrate that their username is intended to represent that company, please let me know and I'll be happy to look into this further. Until we have a more clear idea of what the username intends to represent, we should default ourselves to the assumption of good faith until clear edits, logs, data, and evidence is found that clearly shows otherwise. ;-) Please don't hesitate to reach out to me if I can be of any assistance to you with anything else, and I'll be more than happy to help. :-) Thanks again for the message, and I apologize for being AFK when you reached out to me; otherwise I would've got back to right away. Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:25, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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“Unofficial” systems

So I’ve just seen your edits in the 2019 Nio cyclone season article and reverted them. As of this edit, only the JTWC classifies the system and so what? We still include it in the article since there is a designation and it is the JTWC. There are other articles that include JTWC-only systems anyway. Typhoon2013 (talk) 13:36, 3 December 2019 (UTC) Typhoon2013 13:36, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

The problem is, you are displaying scales that arent for this basin and unofficial information. This is simply overriding the RSMC, who still has this as a LPA per the last warning. This is a LPA, not a TS. Whatever the RSMC says is what goes as the section title as well as for the timeline and table. Noah^Talk 13:40, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

I've seen your message regarding this, too. Yes you are right but that does not mean we do not include it. If for instance 07A was only tracked by the JTWC, we still include it, however, it is classified as an "unofficial" system. This goes the same to Subtropical Storm 07W in the WPac last year, 07W was not tracked by the JMA but it is still included, but known as an unofficial system. This is what me and other users have discussed a few years ago. This is just for you to let know in the future. Typhoon2013 (talk) 02:40, 4 December 2019 (UTC) Typhoon2013 02:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Question about the Tropical cyclone status icons

Hello,
It has come to my attention that you have made these icons to visually indicate the status of active tropical cyclones. As you know, they include variants for the Saffir–Simpson scale, the JMA scale, the IMD scale, the Météo-France scale, and the Australian scale, and their geometry indicates their direction of rotation and thus the hemisphere they exist in. However, the Saffir–Simpson scale is the typical scale used to classify South Atlantic tropical cyclones, which exist in the Southern Hemisphere, but the Saffir–Simpson scale icons only include variants rotating anti-clockwise. So, what should be done for future South Atlantic cyclones?
Grant Exploit (talk) 04:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

@Grant Exploit: The South Atlantic storms will, unfortunately, have to have the incorrect rotation. For starters, nobody would support adding in additional colors just for the South Atlantic. The storms down there are sporadic (we aren't guaranteed to get one for years) and short-lived, so it isn't really worth the effort of going through all the processes. Noah^Talk 16:11, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: Thanks for the response. I put in the effort to create some icons. Categories 3–5 were excluded as in the exceedingly unlikely instance the South Atlantic spawns a major hurricane, the nearly visually identical Australian scale icons could be used. Grant Exploit (talk) 02:20, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

@Grant Exploit: You aren't getting what I am saying. You NEED CONSENSUS to add additional storm colors to the storm colors template before any icons can be used. There isn't any reason to make separate colors just for South Atlantic so this simply dies at that point. Also, you don't need to ping me on my own talk page as I get notified every time someone edits it. Noah^Talk 03:07, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

...Well, yes, I'm not getting what you're saying, because I had no intention to create a new color scheme for South Atlantic storms. That would be unnecessary, and I don't know where that came from. All I was talking about was the icons in the category I linked to. Of course Template:Infobox tropical cyclone current will have to be modified slightly to include a "hemisphere" parameter. Of course, this is largely cosmetic, but the initial integration of the icons into the template (or indeed its whole existence) was, too. Also, I pinged you as you were/are on your hiatus, as after returning from a hiatus many people focus less on what has changed on the websites they are part of, and I thought that would reduce the chance of being ignored. Sorry for that. Grant Exploit (talk) 16:05, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

@Grant Exploit: You can't do a hemisphere parameter. A specific color corresponds to an intensity image. You would have to define South Atlantic colors to get images working for it. Noah^Talk 22:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

I know that, the way the template is coded currently. But it could almost certainly be modified to accept the parameter and modify the image accordingly. I'll see what I can do in the template Sandbox. Sorry for my proactivity. Grant Exploit (talk) 04:18, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Thoughts...

Hi again. I have just seen your contributions so far in our wikiproject (WPTC) and damn I am impressed, and I am somewhat shocked on how I haven't come across you until the past few weeks. So I just had a clean-up in my user page and found this, which is a page I have made of all 'guidelines' for our pages along with the links of past discussions a few years ago. This may be a little stupid but judging how we have some old users retiring and an inflow of new users editing throughout the WPTC, these new users do not know the original guideline we have used in the past. with you yourself joining the project a little after me, what are your thoughts? I have decided to come to you because judging on your edits and how new you are compared to the others, we will be the 'senior' users in the next few years, I would say, as well as how I'm looking forward to working with you in the future. Typhoon2013 (talk) 11:54, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

C1 EPAC list FLC

Damn, I hope it doesn't fail! Have you reached out to any regular EPAC editors? They might be more inclined to review. I'm thinking like @Yellow Evan:, @CycloneYoris:, @KN2731:, or @DavidTheMeteorologist:. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:04, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Hurricane Noah

Thank you for creating Tropical cyclones in 2020.

User:Whoisjohngalt, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

What if we don't have any tropical cyclones this year? ; ).

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@Whoisjohngalt: I made this page as a redirect and have not edited it since 2019 began. Please note that it is impossible for no tropical cyclones to develop in a given year within the different regions of the world. We are in the middle of the southern hemisphere seasons, which have yet to reach peak activity. Conditions in the Southwest Indian Ocean are similar to last year, so, therefore, it should be expected that an above-average season will occur again. We currently have one active cyclone, Calvinia, which should persist until 00:00 UTC, crossing over into 2020. Due to the behavior of weather and relationships between the different oceans, it is impossible to get no cyclonic activity unless global temperatures drastically decrease and all the oceans freeze over. Noah^Talk 21:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: Thank you and have a wonderful 2020.Whoisjohngalt (talk) 21:55, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

ANI

Apologies for that accidental revert - iPad scrolling weirdness!

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It seems I’m being accused of being your sockpuppet because we agreed with one another on the Wuhan coronavirus requested move a couple times. You might want to say something on your behalf. 199.66.69.88 (talk) 01:58, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for the article, happy about you not merging it, but adding an "impact section after finding out there was a decent bit of information on the storm"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Email?

Hi Noah. I noticed that Special:EmailUser/Hurricane Noah doesn't work. Any chance you'd like to enable email, in case anyone would like to get in touch with you privately? (It's also a requirement for admins, so it'll be one more step closer to passing your RfA one day!) Cheers, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:23, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar :)

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		Thank you for improving so many articles with your impressive and extensive knowledge! I wish you the best of luck in whatever you pursue! Super Typhoon EdenMessage me here! 18:49 UTC, December 10, 2019

Noah^Talk 17:28, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Adminship

Hey there Noah, I didn't mean run for admin right now, necessarily :P Just that you have the makings of someone who wants to make Wikipedia a better place, and it seems like you're yearning to be a voice of authority. As you saw in the RfA, try getting more involved. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Hurricanehink:I put the poll up there to gauge where I am at now. Anyways... I adjusted the awards "edit counts" formula to include a "time in service" bonus based on the number of days spent in WPTC. Nothing huge overall, but it will bump people a bit who have already been in the project a while. Also, I will be adding in items for senior editors later this year. I can't see how many edits you have/your average edit size since it lags out. Must be a lot lol Noah^Talk 04:21, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Yea, I've been editing since 2004, longer than some users have been alive. Don't worry too much about counts, awards, or even adminship really, if that's something you don't think you need. Focus on being a good content producer, a mediator, someone who is on top of the needs of the project (very much like you're already doing with C5 Pacific hurricanes!) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:28, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

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WPTC newsletter

Do you think you can handle the reigns of the WPTC newsletter? I liked your reward system, and I appreciate your level of engagement in the project. I just don't have the time to edit as much as I want to do, so I was wondering if you could handle doing the newsletter? Maybe work with other users to get it out more often, if you think it should be monthly or something. I can write a column for some project related content, if you ever needed. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:42, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

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Triple Crown

I am please to award the Triple Crown to Hurricane Noah for their fantastic contributions to articles about hurricanes. Keep up the good work! Damien Linnane (talk) 03:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Noah. Just in case you didn't realise as per the instructions you are only eligible for a triple crown if you have the same number of articles to nominate in the DYK, GA and featured content fields. While you have submitted nine GA's and five pieces of featured content, I can only give you the standards triple crown as there is only one DYK. If you had another four DYK nominations I could give you the relevant triple crown for five standard nominations, but even then the extra four GAs would not count for anything. There's no point in listing extra nominations unless you have them in all three categories. Have a great day. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 03:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Hurricane Willa

Hey, what else is needed w Willa's article before GAN? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:42, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

@Hurricanehink: the US needs to be expanded and there is a bit more that needs to be added into Mexico's section. I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of rewrite isn't needed either to make it better. Noah^Talk 13:44, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

@Hurricanehink: Would you have any time to go over the draft here? It needs a bit of work before we can nominate it. Noah^Talk 14:12, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure, but I'm confused what's been integrated from the draft into the main article. Could you copy over anything there that needs to be in the main article? I just added some info for Texas (found one daily rainfall record). ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:15, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

@Hurricanehink: Updated the three sections that have had more added. There is a bit more that needs added from Talk:Hurricane_Willa/GAN_Prep/Sources. Noah^Talk 14:21, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

So everything from the draft article has been integrated? It's just that list of sources that's left to do? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:22, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

@Hurricanehink: Yes... I am working on the preps/aftermath search ones right now. Could you please add in the ones in the other section? I will type my sentences up in a word doc for now to avoid ECing. Also, those sources are already used in the article. Noah^Talk 14:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure. I'm gonna take a break from editing for a few hours, so you can just add whatever to the main article. I'll be back on later to add some more. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:27, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Okay... I will try to get the remaining 16 sources in that section worked in. Noah^Talk 14:28, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Noah! Keep up the good work, and stay sane in these crazy times :P ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

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Vicente

Can I start the GAN review for Vicente? -- JavaHurricane 16:35, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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	You are a wonderful article writer Noah! All of your articles are wonderful to read. Best of luck! JavaHurricane 16:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

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FAC Nomination

Nice work on Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian. If you have the inclination, and would like some payback for the nitpicking, I'd welcome a review of my article's nomination at the FAC page as well. It's a bit out of your normal area, so it's fine to take a pass on that as well. In either case, best wishes on your article and thanks for helping to improve Wikipedia! Airborne84 (talk) 05:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

@Airborne84: Again, thanks for the review! I know that one was a bit technical since it was the met history of a major storm. The other nomination, as well as my past ones, don't have that level of meteorological detail. Noah^Talk 02:44, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

No problem. I was just passing time, waiting for reviews on mine. Frankly, I was trying hard to find more wrong with yours. I haven't reviewed many FAs, but I gave it a close look, bounced it off the criteria, scrubbed the sources, and compared it to similar FAs of previous storm's meteorological histories—certainly didn't give it an easy pass. Perhaps the fact that it's an A-class article helped. I thought it was well done. Airborne84 (talk) 03:03, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

April–May 2020 GAN Backlog drive

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Message to Hink and KN

@KN2731 and Hurricanehink: A few hours after work, I found that out that my Dad had to take himself to the hospital. He has a bad infection and I need to focus on him for the time being. I will be gone for at least a few days, possibly more if need be. I withdrew Vicente's FAC and the 2018 PHS GAN for now. I trust that both of you will be able to get through Willa's SR in my absence. That being said, now I have to focus on what's really important. Noah^Talk 00:28, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Noah, I hope your Dad recovers quickly, and that the family avoids any Covid complications. We got the FAC under control. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:35, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

No worries Noah, hope he gets better soon. Take as much time off as you need. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 04:05, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

@KN2731 and Hurricanehink: I now know what caused his infection and he may be discharged in the next few days depending on when the infection gets under control. I'm hoping to be able to return to a limited capacity of work during the second week of August although I may do some minor things before then if I have time. I reinstated the GAN per JD's discord message about GANs not being time constrained like FACs are. I realized that some of my older EPAC work wasn't in the best of shape so I will need to fix those up in August/September. I will probably do a group A-class review for those so they can be properly done when it comes time for the FT. That being said, I will not be doing any FACs during the next month since I won't have the time. Noah^Talk 20:49, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

No worries about anything Wiki related. There's no deadline, no rush for any articles, so make sure you take care of your RL duties. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:50, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I am aware. I am just importing some templates to my userspace this morning so they don't get deleted elsewhere. I had requested a translation from another language. Noah^Talk 15:49, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Good news... He got discharged this afternoon and was able to drive himself home. He said the infection wasn't really debilitating, but just felt like back pain. Since he is up and moving around okay on, I guess that means I can be back to limited editing quicker than I previously thought. I won't be around as much of course, but I will do some things here and there. Noah^Talk 18:54, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

That's really good news! This is a bad year to have any health issues, so the less time around other sick people, the better. I replied on the FAC about the reliable sources in Spanish, we'll see how that progresses. One question though: why do only some refs have translated titles but not all? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:48, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

I guess whenever the original was made, some people added translated titles. I never added them to any of the sources myself I don't believe. I might see about adding some more soon. Noah^Talk 22:56, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

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39th edition of The Hurricane Herald!

Volume XIV, Issue 39, March 17, 2020 The Hurricane Herald: Special St. Patrick's Day and COVID-19 edition! The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006; it has been almost thirteen years since that time. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from August 1, 2019–March 17, 2020. This edition's editor and author is ♫ Hurricanehink (talk). Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here. From the Main Page ← 36 · 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 →

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments An awards program for the project began on May 31. It involves 25 levels that may be gained by earning points for completing various actions such as getting good or featured articles. Additional awards will be added in the future. In March 2020, the most popular article in the project was the Beaufort scale, with about 4,800 daily views, followed by tropical cyclone with 3,865 daily views, and Hurricane Katrina, with 3,393 daily views. Hurricane Dorian remains popularly viewed, six months after it devastated the Bahamas. Rounding out the top 10 are hurricanes Sandy and Irma. There is ongoing featured article review for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The recent look at the article stemmed from a discussion about merging the List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which was created in January 2006 in response to the large season article. The 2005 article was then more of a summary, covering economic costs, the record activity, and focusing on storms by month (and not sequentially). For several years, there were a few season articles that had both a primary article and a dedicated list of storms article; all were eventually re-incorporated back into the main season article, recently including 2005 AHS. On March 3, 2020 (hard to believe that was this month), the list article was merged, as well as 2005 Atlantic hurricane season statistics, and articles for Franklin and Philippe. A singular article for the 2005 season was prepared in draftspace, and was incorporated into the main 2005 article. New articles since the last newsletter include: Tropical Storm Ampil Tropical Storm Meari (2011) Tropical Storm Nestor (2019) 1902–19 Pacific typhoon seasons 1920–38 Pacific typhoon seasons 1931 Pacific typhoon season Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy List of Azores hurricanes List of South Pacific tropical disturbances and tropical depressions List of Category 1 South Pacific tropical cyclones List of Category 2 South Pacific tropical cyclones List of Category 3 South Pacific severe tropical cyclones List of Category 4 South Pacific severe tropical cyclones New GA's include: 1915 Galveston hurricane 1916 Texas hurricane 1922 Atlantic hurricane season 1935 Atlantic hurricane season 1944 Jamaica hurricane 2008 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Dennis (1999) Hurricane Erin (1995) Hurricane Humberto (2019) Hurricane Lane (2018) Tropical Storm Kirk (2018) Typhoon Halola Typhoon Robyn (1993) The 1988 and 2015 Pacific seasons are now good topics. Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page. 250 featured pages: 88.8% complete 150 featured articles: 76% complete 1500 good articles: 73.1% complete Recent storms of the month Edition Storm 38 Hurricane Barry (2019) 37 Cyclone Kenneth 36 Cyclone Idai 35 Typhoon Wutip (2019) New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue in May 2019. Sorted chronologically. Struckout users denote users who have left or have been banned. JavaHurricane (talk · contribs) Sdslayer100 (talk · contribs) Calidum (talk · contribs) AC5230 (talk · contribs) JDD Sicko (talk · contribs) Weatherman27 (talk · contribs) Chicdat (talk · contribs) To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Latest WikiProject Alerts The following are the latest article developments as updated by AAlertBot, as of the publishing of this issue. Due to the bot workings, some of these updates may seem out of place; nonetheless, they are included here. Article alerts Featured article candidates 15 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Dennis (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Hurricanehink (t · c); see discussion Featured list candidates 22 Oct 2024 – Timeline of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by JCMLuis (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 24 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Wilma (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 12george1 (t · c); start discussion 16 Sep 2024 – 1887 Atlantic hurricane season (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 12george1 (t · c); see discussion 09 Apr 2024 – 1873 Atlantic hurricane season (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 12george1 (t · c); start discussion Good article reassessments 06 Nov 2024 – Hurricane Allen (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by JCMLuis (t · c); see discussion Peer reviews 26 Aug 2024 – Tropical Storm Kai-tak (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by TheNuggeteer (t · c); see discussion Requested moves 06 Nov 2024 – Hurricane Rafael (2024) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hurricane Rafael by Quxyz (t · c); see discussion 31 Oct 2024 – 2020 Hyderabad floods (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Deep Depression BOB 02 (2020) by Tavantius (t · c); see discussion 30 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Paul (1982) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hurricane Paul by AwesomeAndEpicGamer (t · c); see discussion 25 Oct 2024 – Tropical Storm Trami (2024) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Tropical Storm Trami by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); see discussion 30 Oct 2024 – Tropical Storm Harold (talk · edit · hist) move request to Tropical Storm Harold (2023) by AwesomeAndEpicGamer (t · c) was closed; see discussion 29 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Fox (1952) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Hurricane Fox by SomeoneWiki04 (t · c) was moved to Hurricane Fox (talk · edit · hist) by Aviationwikiflight (t · c) on 05 Nov 2024; see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Oscar (2024) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Hurricane Oscar by SomeoneWiki04 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion Articles to be merged 07 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Kirsten (1966) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 1966 Pacific hurricane season by Tavantius (t · c); see discussion 07 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Pilar (2023) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2023 Pacific hurricane season by Accordthemusician (t · c); see discussion 05 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Agatha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Effects of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala by 74.101.118.218 (t · c); see discussion 05 Nov 2024 – Effects of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tropical Storm Agatha by 74.101.118.218 (t · c); see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Elida (2002) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2002 Pacific hurricane season by Zzzs (t · c); see discussion 10 Oct 2024 – 1887 Halloween tropical storm (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 1887 Atlantic hurricane season by Hurricanehink (t · c); see discussion 01 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Matthew (2004) (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to 2004 Atlantic hurricane season by Zzzs (t · c) was closed; see discussion 01 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Bret (2023) (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to 2023 Atlantic hurricane season by Zzzs (t · c) was closed; see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Celia (2010) (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to 2010 Pacific hurricane season by Tavantius (t · c) was closed; see discussion 27 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Kristy (2024) (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to 2024 Pacific hurricane season by Sria-72 (t · c) was closed; see discussion Articles to be split 30 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Helene (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 74.101.118.218 (t · c); see discussion 09 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Hugo (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 69.123.54.241 (t · c); see discussion Updated daily by AAlertBot — Discuss? / Report bug? / Request feature? Click to watch (Subscribe via  RSS  Atom) · Find Article Alerts for other topics! Storm of the month and other tropical activity for August Typhoon Lekima became China's costliest typhoon ever recorded when it struck the country in early August, leaving 90 fatalities and over $9 billion in damage. Atlantic - In August, there were two weak, short-lived tropical storms – Chantal and Erin, as well as Hurricane Dorian. Eastern Pacific - at the beginning of August, Hurricane Flossie was active, which ultimately passed north of Hawaii. Later in the month, there was a series of tropical storms off the southwest coast of Mexico – Tropical Storm Gil was the shortest-lived, Tropical Storm Henriette passed near the coast of Mexico, and Tropical Storm Ivo moved over Clarion Island. Western Pacific - in the beginning of August, Tropical Storm Wipha was active, which moved across southwestern China and Vietnam, killing 27 people in the latter country. In August and September, a series of three typhoons struck Japan, including Typhoon Francisco, Typhoon Krosa, and Typhoon Faxai. Toward the end of August, Tropical Storm Bailu struck Taiwan and China, killing three people, and Tropical Storm Podul moved through the Philippines. North Indian Ocean - a deep depression killed three people when it struck Odisha in eastern India. Storm of the month and other tropical activity for September Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane on record to strike The Bahamas, and was regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country's history. Dorian formed on August 24, and moved through the Caribbean as an intensifying storm. On September 1, Dorian hit Great Abaco Island with sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), and struck Grand Bahama Island at the same intensity a day later. Dorian killed 58 people and left $7 billion in damage to the island nation. The hurricane later struck North Carolina as a minimal hurricane, and Nova Scotia as a post-tropical cyclone. Atlantic - The tropics were more active in September. Tropical Storm Fernand killed one person and caused damaging floods in northeastern Mexico. Tropical Storm Gabrielle moved across the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Humberto affected the Bahamas weeks after Dorian devastated the island chain, and later brought hurricane-force winds to Bermuda. Tropical Storm Imelda formed rapidly near the coast of Texas and dropped torrential rainfall, killing five people and inundating parts of Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey two years earlier. Hurricane Jerry and Tropical Storm Karen moved near or over the eastern Caribbean. At the end of the month, Hurricane Lorenzo became the easternmost Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, reaching that intensity in the eastern Atlantic Ocean; the hurricane caused a shipwreck, killing at least three people, and also passed through the Azores in early October. Western Pacific - In early September, Tropical Storm Kajiki brought heavy rainfall to northeastern Vietnam, killing six people. Typhoon Lingling moved through the East China Sea before striking North Korea, killing eight people. In the middle of September, short-lived Tropical Storm Peipah dissipated south of Japan, and Typhoon Tapah passed between Japan and South Korea. At the end of the month, Typhoon Mitag was moving across South Korea. There were also a series of nine non-developing depressions. Eastern Pacific - There were two major hurricanes in September – Juliette and Kiko. Short-lived Tropical Storm Akoni was in the Central Pacific. Toward the end of the month, Tropical Storm Mario and Hurricane Lorena interacted with each other, and the latter hurricane struck Mexico twice, killing one person. At the end of the month, Tropical Storm Narda followed a similar path to Lorena, killing four people in southwestern Mexico. North Indian Ocean - In September, Cyclonic Storm Hikaa struck eastern Oman, killing one person. At the end of the month, a land depression formed over western India. Storm of the month and other tropical activity for October Typhoon Hagibis was considered the most devastating typhoon to hit the Kantō region of Japan since Ida in 1958. It struck near Tokyo on October 12, triggering heavy rainfall and landslides. Hagibis killed 95 people along its path and left about US$9 billion in damage. Atlantic - a series of weaker storms formed in October, beginning with Melissa, which caused significant flooding along the east coast of the United States from its predecessor extratropical low. After a weak tropical depression formed near Cabo Verde, there were two tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico – Nestor and Olga, which together left more than $250 million in damage and four fatalities to the United States gulf coast. Later in the month, Hurricane Pablo became the easternmost storm on record to attain hurricane status, having originated from a nontropical storm near the Azores. A few days later, Subtropical Storm Rebekah formed in the same region. Eastern Pacific - there were three cyclones in the Eastern Pacific during the month, beginning with short-lived Ema in the Central Pacific. Later, Tropical Storm Octave lasted two days over open waters, and Tropical Storm Priscilla moved ashore near Manzanillo. Western Pacific - in addition to Hagibis, two other storms formed in the western Pacific during October. Typhoon Neoguri and Typhoon Bualoi existed south of Japan. At the end of the month, Tropical Storm Matmo struck Vietnam, which later redeveloped in the North Indian Ocean as Cyclone Bulbul. North Indian Ocean - there were two storms in the North Indian Ocean during October. The first was Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr, which was the strongest storm on record in the Arabian Sea; the cyclone produced high waves throughout the basin, but didn't strike land. Later in the month, Cyclone Maha formed in the Arabian Sea, marking the first time on record there were two simultaneous storms in the body of water. Maha eventually struck Gujarat in western India as a depression. Storm of the month and other tropical activity for November Cyclone Bulbul formed in the Bay of Bengal from the remnants of Tropical Storm Matmo, which struck Vietnam in late October. Bulbul intensified into the record-breaking sixth very intense tropical cyclone (the NIO equivalent to a hurricane). On November 9, Bulbul made landfall near the India/Bangladesh border, killing 38 people and leaving US$2.6 billion in damage. Atlantic - Tropical Storm Sebastien formed northeast of the Lesser Antilles and moved across much of the Atlantic, becoming an extratropical cyclone near the Azores. Eastern Pacific - there were two simultaneous tropical cyclones in the middle of the month. Tropical Storm Raymond brought rainfall to California, and Tropical Depression Twenty-One-E existed south of Mexico. Western Pacific - Typhoon Halong was the strongest storm of the year worldwide, reaching winds of 215 km/h (130 mph) according to the JMA. The storm remained away from land. Also in the month, Typhoon Nakri struck Vietnam, killing six people. Typhoon Fengshen struck the northern Marianas Islands. Typhoon Kalmaegi and Tropical Storm Fung-wong affected the northern Philippines in short succession. Later in the month, Typhoon Kammuri formed, moving through the Philippines in early December, where it caused US$116 million in damage and 12 deaths. South Pacific - Cyclone Rita passed through the Solomon Islands. Member of the month (edition) – ChocolateTrain ChocolateTrain first joined Wikipedia in April 2017. An Australian native, he is already a prolific writer on the Australian basin, and is responsible for half the edits to the current Australian cyclone season. ChocolateTrain wrote good articles on Cyclone Lili (2019) and Cyclone Nora, plus several articles that are C-class. We thank ChocolateTrain for his edits, and hopes he keeps writing about southern hemisphere storms! From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from August 1, 2019–March 17, 2020 in chronological order. Today's Featured Article/List August 12 - Hurricane Nadine August 30 - Tropical Storm Faxai (2007) September 6 - List of Arabian Peninsula tropical cyclones October 20 - Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia December 6 - Hurricane Connie December 13 - Timeline of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season January 3 - Cyclone Ada January 20 - Timeline of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season February 17 - Tropical Storm Carlotta (2018) March 9 - Hurricane Hattie Did you know...? August 29 - 1875 Indianola hurricane September 20 - Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian Featured Content From August 1, 2019–March 17, 2020, one featured list and three featured articles were promoted: 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane Hurricane Alex (2016) Hurricane Sergio (2018) Timeline of the 2015 Pacific hurricane season Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics. As of this issue, there are 154 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 134 A-class articles, but that number is subject to change, depending if we mandate that all A-class articles have an A-class review first. There are 974 good articles. There are only 63 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 374 C-class articles, 733 start-class articles, and 150 stub-class articles, with 32 lists, and 9 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better - including the lists/current/future articles, there are 1320 articles that are below GA status, versus 1334 that are GA or better. There is a discussion about getting rid of redirect and list-class articles. About the assessment scale → WikiProject To-Do Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: 1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane, List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms and other intensity lists, Tropical Storm Nestor (2019), Tropical Storm Olga (2019), Typhoon Yancy (1990), 1971 Odisha cyclone, Cyclone Gervaise, Cyclone Sid, Cyclone Keni, more Wikify: Make sure tropical cyclone lists, such as List of Texas hurricanes, have storm articles properly linked Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Fay (2002), Tropical cyclones in 2017 Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Typhoon Nina (1975), Typhoon Durian, Tropical cyclones in 2016/2015/2014, List of Category 1 Pacific hurricanes, Pacific hurricane season timelines Stubs: 1876 Bengal cyclone, 1978 Sri Lanka cyclone, Cyclone Prema, List of off-season Australian region tropical cyclones, List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900), Typhoon Fred (1994), more... WPTC 15th Anniversary push: some goals for the 15th year of WPTC include the creation or improvement of many other articles listed in the first section on the WPTC talk page. Collaborating - AKA the right kind of sharing, by User:Hurricanehink As mentioned elsewhere in the newsletter, 2005 Atlantic hurricane season has changed recently. It was a collaborative effort of several users, making sure this top-importance vital article is still of featured-quality. (There is an ongoing discussion about removing its featured article status). There are other kinds of collaborations. Recently, users Juliancolton and TropicalAnalystwx13 wrote Tropical Storm Kirk (2018) together. Each year, the season articles are written by many editors, by folks who add the latest satellite imagery or track. There are others who document the storm's journey, and what impacts they left. When a major storm is threatening a landmass (especially the United States), users edit from IP addresses far and wide to add the latest information. Unfortunately, some of these big storm articles languish, because they're written in real time without historical perspective, and the websites might no longer be up and running a few years later. Don't get me wrong, I know the excitement of being the first to write on Wikipedia when the NHC classifies something. However, there are lots of older articles that end up half-finished, or with broken weblinks. Thankfully we have the web archive. We see the disruption that Covid-19 is causing in our world right now. Yea, it sucks to have everything canceled, for schools and bars and gyms and restaurants to be shut down. Some people experience that same feeling every few years when a hurricane/typhoon/cyclone strikes. It's easy writing/researching about these furious beasts of nature when we're in the comfort of our own home/office/library/school. And sometimes it's uncomfortable seeing how we rebuild. After every storm, there is help, often from the government. Politics have made my country turn fearful and hateful, and so I have to choose my words carefully. When nature is at its worst, my government is there after when people need it the most, providing financial assistance, logistical support, and a sense of national unity. This pandemic is making a lot of people fearful of the unknown, how bad that unstoppable force will be. A lot of us may be stuck at home right now with a sense of fear and too much time on our hands. Consider, then, the spirit of collaboration, working together to document the world around us. If you're reading this, you are likely interested in meteorology. Go improve an article then. Now. Do it. :P Stop reading this and find an article you're interested in, and make it better. <3 Tropical cyclones by year In 2019, there have been 143 tropical or subtropical cyclones. We (the thousands of editors who are writing the first draft of history in the middle of Earth's biggest climate crisis in many millennia) are writing the first draft of history. There might be edit wars, conflicts over whether a source is reliable, and maybe even a controversy surrounding a sharpie, Alabama, and a NWS weather map (see also Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy, AKA Sharpiegate). 2019 has featured several significant storms: Cyclone Idai, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere. Cyclone Kenneth was the strongest cyclone to strike Mozambique. In February, Typhoon Wutip was the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the month of February. The storms in 2019 represent about 0.116% of the known tropical cyclones on Wikipedia. We're aware of around 12,000 tropical cyclones; about one-third were in the Western Pacific, where storms have killed more than 1.4 million people. Storms in the western Pacific date back to the year 957, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. In the Atlantic, we know of 2,443 tropical cyclones, dating back to 1494, and Christopher Columbus's 2nd voyage to the New World; however, paleotempestological evidence] of storms date back to 1330 BC. In the eastern Pacific, storms date back to 1537, when a hurricane struck Mexico and was recorded by a missionary. Storms in the South Pacific Ocean date back to 1568, and in the South Indian Ocean to 1615. Wikipedia coverage in the North Indian Ocean goes back to 1721. Storm of the month and other tropical activity for December Cyclone Ambali was the first very intense tropical cyclone in the South-west Indian Ocean since Cyclone Fantala in 2016. It formed on December 3 as part of a series of storms in the western Indian Ocean in both hemispheres. Ambali's winds increased by 185 km/h (115 mph) in 24 hours, marking the fastest 24-hour intensification recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. The storm rapidly weakened after its peak, degenerating into a remnant low by December 8. Western Pacific - Typhoon Phanfone moved through the central Philippines on Christmas Day, killing 50 people. Damage was estimated at US$67.2 million, enough to warrant the retirement of its international name, as well its local Filipino name Ursula. North Indian - Cyclonic Storm Pawan formed in early December in the western Arabian Sea. It struck Somalia, causing flooding rains that killed six people. Pawan existed simultaneously to a deep depression off India's west coast, which killed 25 people. The season ended on December 10 when another deep depression formed in the Arabian Sea, which dissipated near the Somalia coastline. South-west Indian Ocean - Cyclone Belna developed west of Cyclone Ambali, and struck northwestern Madagascar on December 9. The storm killed nine people and left US$25 million in damage. Cyclone Calvinina formed at the end of the month, passing near Mauritius on December 31, causing power outages and flooding. The storm became extratropical the next day. South Pacific - There were two December tropical cyclones – a tropical depression, and Tropical Cyclone Sarai. Sarai passed near Fiji on December 27, causing two deaths and US$2.3 million in damage. Storm of the month and other tropical activity for January Cyclone Tino was part of a broader convergence zone that affected ten South Pacific countries. Tino formed on January 11, and passed near Fiji on January 17 with winds of 120 km/h (75 mph), where two people were left missing. Tino became extratropical two days later. South Atlantic - Subtropical Storm Kurumí formed on January 23 south of São Paulo. It existed for two days, until it was absorbed by a larger weather system that killed three people in Brazil. South-West Indian Ocean - A series of three systems formed in the second half of the month, beginning with a short-lived tropical depression. Tropical Storm Diane moved across Madagascar in its formative stages, killing 31 people. It later passed near Mauritius, and eventually became extratropical. Tropical Storm Esami formed east of Madagascar and followed Diane's path. Australia - the Australian season began when Tropical Cyclone Blake formed on January 4. It later struck Western Australia on the Dampier Peninsula, causing localized flooding. Simultaneous to Blake's development, Cyclone Claudia moved across Australia's Top End, dropping heavy rainfall, and eventually reached its peak intensity off northwest Australia. There were also two tropical lows during the month, including one low in the extreme southeastern Gulf of Carpentaria, which dropped 475 mm (18.7 in) of rainfall in Queensland. South Pacific - Toward the end of the month, there was a short-lived tropical disturbance near American Samoa. Storm of the month and other tropical activity for February Cyclone Damien struck Western Australia near Karratha on February 8, having originated from a monsoon trough five days later. Damien caused localized flooding and power outages. South-west Indian - Tropical Storm Francisco lasted for nearly two weeks, beginning as a short-lived storm near the Chagos, and moving across much of the basin as a weak disturbance. Francisco regenerated into a tropical storm near eastern Madagascar, moving ashore near Mahanoro; it killed one person in the country. Also in the month, Cyclone Gabekile formed on February 13, and weakened after it stalled over open waters. Australia - there were two other storms in the basin during the month, in addition to Damien. Cyclone Esther moved across the Northern Territory, reached the coastline of the Indian Ocean, and then moved back east inland. The storm caused flooding rains along its path. Occurring simultaneously to Esther, Cyclone Ferdinand developed, intensified, and weakened off Australia's northwest coast. South Pacific - Cyclone Uesi passed west of New Caledonia on February 11, causing flooding and power outages. It later moved into the Australian basin, where it transitioned into a subtropical cyclone. High waves killed one person in Sydney. Over a one week span, four tropical cyclones developed in the basin in short-succession near American Samoa, including two tropical disturbances. Cyclone Vicky caused power outages and flooding, followed only days later by Cyclone Wasi. Write the next issue of The Hurricane Herald →

The 40th Edition of The Hurricane Herald

Volume XL, Issue 40, May 1, 2020 The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from March 17 to April 30, 2020. This edition's editor and author is Hurricanehink. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here. From the Main Page ← 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 →

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments There is a proposal to redo the tropical cyclone maps. The new maps will be zoomable, include intermediate advisory points (the current map only lists six-hour positions), and information on intensity and date when you hover over the location. There is a discussion on how to implement different scales from around the world, which would replace the current model of using JTWC data, with coloring from the Saffir-Simpson scale. There has been an increase in editor activity lately (perhaps because we're all stuck inside), resulting in a significant number of new featured and good articles. Editors with good or featured articles since the last newsletter include 12george1, ‎Cyclonebiskit, Hurricanehink, Hurricane Noah, Jo-Jo Eumerus, Juliancolton, Nova Crystallis, TropicalAnalystwx13, and Yellow Evan. We thank these editors, and for everyone else who contributes positively to Wikipedia's coverage of tropical cyclones. An awards program for the project began last year. It involves 25 levels that may be gained by earning points for completing various actions such as getting good or featured articles. Additional awards will be added in the future. In April 2020, the most popular article in the project was the Hurricane Katrina, with about 3,399 daily views, followed by tropical cyclone with 2,097 daily views, and Beaufort scale, with 1,685 daily views. Hurricane Dorian remains popularly viewed, six months after it devastated the Bahamas, as is the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Rounding out the top 10 are March TFA Hurricane Hattie (and the season article); Coriolis force, the mechanism for storms having their spin; El Niño, and Hurricane Sandy. There is still an ongoing featured article review for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which recently was reformatted to look like the every other season article. There is a discussion about getting rid of redirect and list-class, replacing the latter with the assessment we use for all other articles. New articles since the last newsletter include: 1973 Flores cyclone List of Alabama hurricanes (first WPTC article written by new-ish member Chicdat!) List of Category 1 Australian region tropical cyclones List of Category 2 Australian region tropical cyclones List of Category 3 Australian region severe tropical cyclones List of South-West Indian Ocean intense tropical cyclones New GA's include: 1893 San Roque hurricane 1916 Pensacola hurricane 1916 Virgin Islands hurricane 1929 Bahamas hurricane 1923 Atlantic hurricane season 1934 Atlantic hurricane season 1938 Atlantic hurricane season 2006–07 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season‎ 2018 Atlantic hurricane season Cyclone Indlala Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Mexico Hurricane Audrey Hurricane Willa Meteorological history of Hurricane Florence Paleotempestology Tropical Storm Olga (2019) Tropical Storm Vicente (2018) Typhoon Amy (1991) Typhoon Cecil (1985) Typhoon Yunya (1991) Typhoon Zeke WikiProject To-Do Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: 1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane, List of Eastern Pacific tropical depressions and other intensity lists, Typhoon Yancy (1990), 1971 Odisha cyclone, Cyclone Gervaise, Cyclone Uma, more Wikify: Make sure tropical cyclone lists, such as List of Texas hurricanes, have storm articles properly linked Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Fay (2002), Tropical cyclones in 2017 Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Typhoon Nina (1975), Typhoon Durian, Tropical cyclones in 2016/2015/2014, List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms, Pacific hurricane season timelines Stubs: 1876 Bengal cyclone, 1978 Sri Lanka cyclone, Cyclone Prema, List of off-season Australian region tropical cyclones, List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900), Typhoon Fred (1994), more... WPTC 15th Anniversary push: some goals for the 15th year of WPTC include the creation or improvement of many other articles listed in the first section on the WPTC talk page. Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page. 250 featured pages: 91.2% complete 150 featured articles: 79.5% complete 1500 good articles: 73.1% complete Storms of the month over the last year Month Storm February 2020 Cyclone Damien January 2020 Cyclone Tino December 2019 Cyclone Ambali November 2019 Cyclone Bulbul October 2019 Typhoon Hagibis September 2019 Hurricane Dorian August 2019 Typhoon Lekima (2019) July 2019 Hurricane Barry (2019) June 2019 Cyclone Kenneth May 2019 Cyclone Idai Storm of the month and other tropical activity for March Cyclone Herold (not to be confused with April's storm of the month) was an intense tropical cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean. It formed near northeastern Madagascar, where its flooding killed five people. Herold later passed between the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues before becoming extratropical. Special thanks to Chicdat for helping write this newsletter's storm of the month! Australia - the month began with Cyclone Ferdinand dissipating off northwest Australia. Several days later, a tropical low struck Western Australia, and Tropical Cyclone Gretel formed northeast of Queensland, later exiting into the South Pacific. There, the storm brushed New Caledonia with gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. The month ended with another tropical low near Papua New Guinea. Member of the month (edition) – TropicalAnalystwx13 TropicalAnalystwx13 first joined Wikipedia in September 2010. A long-time writer, TropicalAnalystwx13 (or TAWX13) is a prolific writer about tropical cyclones and tornadoes. Since the last newsletter, he worked on Hurricane Humberto (2019), now a featured article, as well as good articles for Tropical Storm Olga (2019), 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, and 1934 Atlantic hurricane season. We thank TropicalAnalystwx13 for his many edits, and hope he keeps up the good work! New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically. Rd003 (talk · contribs) Hurricaneboy23 To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Featured Content Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier depicting the loss of the SS Home on the Outer Banks during Racer's hurricane, one of five recent featured articles. From March 17 to present, five featured articles were promoted: Cyclone Chapala Hurricane Humberto (2019) Racer's hurricane Tropical Storm Ileana (2018) Tropical Storm Zelda (1991) There are currently three featured article candidates: 1916 Texas hurricane Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Mexico Hurricane Lane (2018) From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from March 17–April 30, 2020 in chronological order. Did you know...? April 3 - Typhoon Emma (1959) April 4 - Paleotempestology Storms around the world, by Jason Rees Over the last few months, the project has started to dip its toe into several other types of articles away from the traditional season, storm and timeline articles. These articles include lists on what tropical cyclones existed in which year, tropical cyclone by intensity and tropical cyclones affecting a certain territory, island nation etc. The hope is that these articles will be developed over the next few months to the point, where they get used by the international community. We have had some early success with this goal with information from Category 5 South Pacific severe tropical cyclones being used by a Facebook page after Cyclone Harold. However, we need help developing these articles since there are approximately 150 countries impacted by tropical cyclones and there are approximately 15 tropical cyclones off all intensities per basin per year. You can help by finding resources for us to use, going through IBTRACS and the various databases published by the warning centres or even helping to expand the various articles. ''Opinion piece - , by Chicdat As a reader: I first became interested in hurricanes when the buzz on Hurricane Dorian making landfall in the Bahamas came out at the end of August 2019. I was interested to know more about Dorian, but not too much. I went onto the solution page: 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, one of the first pages I saw on Wikipedia (that's where I got my signature, 🐔Chicdat ChickenDatabase, the Chicken links to 2019 AHS). As hurricane season continued, I "experienced" every single storm from Dorian to Sebastien. After hurricane season in the Atlantic ended, I turned my eyes to the Southern Hemisphere. By the beginning of 2020, I was even delving into FAs, GAs, and stubs. As an IP: By late January 2020, I began questioning sharing my knowledge with the rest of Wikipedia, and on February 3, me my IP made what I believe was my first Wikipedia edit as an IP. However, many users were following the "All IPs are vandals, so let's revert their edits!" rule (e.g. here). Any coincidence that just 5 hours later...? As Chicdat: Five hours after I was given a violation of the WP:IPs are humans too rule, I decided to create an account. I like chickens, and I had a database that I used for their egg production, which I call CHICDAT (Chicken Database), so I chose the username Chicdat. Not long after that, I made my first edit as Chicdat. On March 18, I created my first article, List of Alabama hurricanes. On February 24, I became an autoconfirmed user, and on March 19, I became extended confirmed. In late March, I created my first userspace draft, User:Chicdat/Cyclone Herold. In other words, that is how I became a Wikipedia user! 🐔Chicdat ChickenDatabase Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics. As of this issue, there are 157 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 135 A-class articles, and 996 good articles. There are only 65 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 369 C-class articles, 736 start-class articles, and 151 stub-class articles, with 31 lists, and 8 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better. About the assessment scale → Storm of the month and other tropical activity for April Cyclone Harold was a Category 5 storm on both the Saffir-Simpson and the Australian scale. The storm formed near the Solomon Islands on April 1, where high waves drowned 27 people on the MV Taimareho ferry. Near peak intensity, Harold struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, causing widespread damage and disruptions amid the ongoing pandemic, as well as two deaths. Harold later passed south of the main island of Fiji, resulting in power outages and one fatality. The storm subsequently passed just south of Tonga, causing power outages and high tides. Special thanks to Hurricaneboy23, Jason Rees, and TheAustinMan for helping write 94% of this newsletter's storm of the month! Eastern Pacific - Tropical Depression One-E formed on April 25 southwest of Mexico, becoming the earliest tropical cyclone in the basin (east of 140°W and north of the equator). The depression dissipated a day after formation. South-west Indian - toward the beginning of April, Cyclone Irondro formed southwest of Diego Garcia and moved to the southeast, becoming an intense tropical cyclone before weakening and becoming extratropical near the boundary with the Australian basin. In the middle of the month, Tropical Storm Jeruto originated in the Australian basin and took a southwest trajectory over open waters, dissipating on April 16. Write the next issue of The Hurricane Herald →

41st edition of The Hurricane Herald

Volume XLI, Issue 41, July 1, 2020 ←(Previous issues) 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 · 42 → The Hurricane Herald: Special Hurricane Season/New SHEM Cyclone Year Edition! The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from May 1–July 1, 2020. This edition's editors and authors are Chicdat and Hurricanehink. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here.

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments NEWS New articles since the last newsletter include: List of extremely severe cyclonic storms Tropical Depression Josie Tropical Depression Usman Tropical Storm Ofelia (1993) Tropical Storm Percy (1993) Tropical Storm Toraji (2018) New GA's include: Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian Tropical Storm Bolaven (2018) Tropical Storm Sanba (2018) Typhoon Alex (1987) Typhoon Eli (1992) Typhoon Holly (1984) Typhoon Irving (1982) Typhoon Sarika Typhoon Warren WikiProject To-Do Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: 1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane, List of Eastern Pacific tropical depressions and other intensity lists, Typhoon Yancy (1990), 1971 Odisha cyclone, Cyclone Gervaise, Cyclone Uma, 1965 to 1974 North Indian Ocean cyclone season articles, more Wikify: Make sure tropical cyclone lists, such as List of Texas hurricanes, have storm articles properly linked Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Fay (2002), Tropical cyclones in 2017 Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Typhoon Nina (1975), Typhoon Durian, Tropical cyclones in 2016/2015/2014, List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms, Pacific hurricane season timelines Stubs: 1876 Bengal cyclone, 1978 Sri Lanka cyclone, Cyclone Prema, List of off-season Australian region tropical cyclones, List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900), Typhoon Fred (1994), more... WPTC 15th Anniversary push: some goals for the 15th year of WPTC (October 5, 2020!) include the creation or improvement of many other articles listed in the first section on the WPTC talk page. Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page. 250 featured pages: 91.2% complete 200 featured articles: 79.5% complete 1500 good articles: 73.1% complete 2018 Featured Topic Hurricane Noah recently announced an initiative to get a featured topic for the year of 2018 with complete subtopics. The Eastern Pacific portion is very close to achieving a featured topic, and the Atlantic and North Indian Ocean are around a B-class average. The Western Pacific, Southern Hemisphere, and the global article for 2018 need your help! A lot of work is needed to get those three items up to par. For more information on which articles need specifically, please check out the project talk page. Getting a featured topic for an entire year would be an impressive feat for our project. Happy New Year by Jason Rees I want to invite you all to sing Auld Lang Syne with me and open up the egg nog with me as today July 1, 2020, marks the formal start of the 2020-21 tropical cyclone year, as well as the start of the season in the South-West Indian Ocean. As a result, it is a good chance to look back at the previous TC year and look forward to the season starting on November 1. As things stand, it appears that the status of the El Nino Southern Oscillation will either be La Nina or neutral conditions leaning towards La Nina. As a result, I would expect more activity to occur within the Coral Sea, near Queensland rather than out towards French Polynesia. On a social basis, the biggest question this year will be how will the island nations deal will Covid 19 and a major tropical cyclone - assuming it's still around in November. We got an early taster of how Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga will deal with it thanks Severe Tropical Cyclone Harold. Storms of the month over the last year Month Storm April 2020 Cyclone Harold March 2020 Cyclone Herold February 2020 Cyclone Damien January 2020 Cyclone Tino December 2019 Cyclone Ambali November 2019 Cyclone Bulbul October 2019 Typhoon Hagibis September 2019 Hurricane Dorian August 2019 Typhoon Lekima (2019) July 2019 Hurricane Barry (2019) Storm of the month and other tropical activity for May Cyclone Amphan was the second Category 5-equivalent tropical cyclone of 2020, and the first tropical cyclone of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It formed in the southern Bay of Bengal, and made landfall on Odisha and Bangladesh, killing 128 people. It was a very strong super cyclonic storm. It was also the costliest North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone in recorded history, shattering the record held by Cyclone Nargis, after it left US$13.6 billion in damage. Atlantic - Tropical Storm Arthur started the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season early for the sixth year in a row. It affected North Carolina before turning extratropical on May 19. Tropical Storm Bertha formed, made landfall in South Carolina, and dissipated — all on May 27. Bertha killed one person and left US$200 million in damage. Eastern Pacific - Tropical Storm Amanda struck Guatemala in late May. Its heavy rainfall killed 33 people and caused US$200 million in damage. Amanda later reformed in the Bay of Campeche as Cristobal. Western Pacific - Typhoon Vongfong devastated the Phillipines and made the 2020 Pacific typhoon season have the sixth-latest start on record in the basin. The typhoon killed 5 people. North Indian Ocean - In addition to Amphan, a depression formed and dissipated near the coast of Oman, producing heavy rainfall that killed three people. Australia - A long-lived, off-season tropical depression existed in early May southwest of Indonesia. Later in the month, Tropical Low 17U formed. It strengthened into Tropical Cyclone Mangga, and dissipated the next day. Member of the month (edition) – KN2731 KN2731 first joined Wikipedia in 2015, and has contributed to/written 13 good articles in the project. Recently, he has contributed to the project-wide goal of improving tropical cyclones in 2018 to a featured topic, including tropical storms Sanba, Bolaven, and Ewiniar, plus Typhoon Maria. KN2731 has also worked in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, and contributed to two featured lists – Timeline of the 2015 Pacific hurricane season and List of Category 3 Pacific hurricanes. We thank KN2731 for his many edits, and hope he keeps up the good work! New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically. Chlod (talk · contribs) Destroyeraa (talk · contribs) NOOBSKINSPAMMER (talk · contribs) HurricaneMichael2018 (talk · contribs) JoeMT615 (talk · contribs) To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Featured Content From May 1 to present, two featured articles were promoted: Hurricane Lane (2018) 1916 Texas hurricane From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from May 1–June 30, 2020 in chronological order. Today's Featured Article/List May 25 - Hurricane Fred (2015) June 16 - 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane There are currently two featured article canidates: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian/archive2 Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Willa/archive1 OPINION PIECE, by Chicdat When a new storm undergoes rapid intensification and makes landfall, the members of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones try hard to create an article for it. Suddenly, the storm goes back out to sea again and makes landfall somewhere different. In one 20-kilobyte edit, Hurricaneboy23, let's say, adds in more information about this landfall, but not before the storm undergoes a cyclonic loop and makes a third landfall. As the article gets huge and bloated, it's split. The story above is fictional, but things like it happen often, like in Cyclone Amphan's revision history. For Wikipedia to have an accurate coverage of tropical cyclones, there need to be enough members to put the new information — boosted by reliable sources, of course — into the article. So, if you haven't already, go to WP:WPTC/MEMBER and add your name! 🐔Chicdat ChickenDatabase Burnout - an opinion piece by ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) I've been editing Wikipedia for a while. I've retired a few times, thinking I would be done for good, but something kept drawing me back. It might be the thrill to be the first one to post an advisory, or if you found a damage total that wasn't in the article, or the thrill of publishing an article and making it the best source of information on a given storm. Those are all great reasons to edit and to continue editing. But while the text we write is just computer code, we all are humans, subjected to outside stresses and the dreaded real life (RL). When you edit for too long, you might find that you can't finish that list of projects you wanted to work on. It is better to take a break from what you were working on, and try something different (maybe not even weather-related) so that editing becomes enjoyable again. There's no sense getting burned out and stressed. The work will eventually get done on Wikipedia. Some projects are in much worse shape, but improving slowly but surely. The WPTC has a leg up on other projects because we have such a passionate group of editors and writers. It's better for the long run to take a break, focus on RL, get some sun, have a laugh, and do whatever you can to stay sane these days. Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics. As of this issue, there are 157 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 135 A-class articles, and 1,002 good articles. There are only 65 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 369 C-class articles, 736 start-class articles, and 151 stub-class articles, with 31 lists, and 8 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better. Typhoon Warren was the 1000th GA in the project. About the assessment scale → Storm of the month and other tropical activity for June Tropical Storm Cristobal formed on June 1 in the Bay of Campeche from the remnants of Amanda in the eastern Pacific. Cristobal looped over the Yucatán peninsula before progressing northward, striking Louisiana on June 7, marking the second-earliest landfall on record in the state. The system moved through the central United States, eventually becoming extratropical over Wisconsin. Cristobal killed four people and left US$343 million in damage. Atlantic - in addition to Cristobal, Tropical Storm Dolly formed in late June off the east coast of the United States. Originating as a subtropical depression, Dolly transitioned into a tropical cyclone over the Gulf Stream, and became extratropical on June 24. Eastern Pacific - there were two short-lived tropical cyclones in the basin in late June. Tropical Storm Boris formed on June 24 and was a minimal tropical storm, and Tropical Depression Four-E formed at the end of the month off of Baja California. Western Pacific - one tropical storm - Nuri - formed in the South China Sea, and killed one person when it struck southern China. North Indian Ocean - Cyclone Nisarga formed on June 1 off India's western coast. The storm intensified into a severe cyclonic storm before it made landfall south of Mumbai. The cyclone killed 6 people and caused US$665 million in damage. Write the next issue of The Hurricane Herald →

Tropical Storm Ileana (2018) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Tropical Storm Ileana (2018) has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 21 August 2020. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 21, 2020. Thanks! Ealdgyth (talk) 14:16, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the article, about the storm "during the 2018 Pacific hurricane season. While quite small in word count, I believe it incorporates virtually every detail out there on the storm."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

2018 Pacific hurricane season

14 articles

Hurricane Bud

Tropical Storm Ileana

Tropical Depression Nineteen-E

Hurricane Walaka

Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season

Tropical Storm Carlotta

Hurricane Lane

Hurricane Rosa

Tropical Storm Vicente

Hurricane Hector

Hurricane Olivia

Hurricane Sergio

Hurricane Willa

@Gerda Arendt: This is the topic I am working on right now. Noah^Talk 18:23, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Best wishes for that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:25, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hurricane Dolores GA review

Hey Noah! Do you mind doing the GA review for Hurricane Dolores (2015)? It looks like you reviewed the 2015 EPAC season article, as well as many other articles on WPTC. I'm currently expanding the article's MH and Impact sections, it should be ready for review in a few weeks. Thanks, and I hope you and your family stay safe. ~ Destroyeraa🌀 20:28, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

@Destroyeraa: I might have time... I don't know yet. I have an article up for review for GA, A, and will be putting Vicente back up for FA after my withdraw (due to a family emergency). Noah^Talk 23:53, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Hurricane Noah, it's ok that you don't have time. I'll just ask User:Hurricanehink to do it. Family first! ~ Destroyeraa🌀 00:16, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

I withdrew it due to the emergency, which is now resolved. I just had to wait 14 days after closure to renominate the article. Noah^Talk 00:29, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Good to hear that. Which means that you don't have time to review Dolores... ~ Destroyeraa🌀 01:23, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Im saying I don't know if I will have time because of work and college. It is a wait and see kind of a deal. Noah^Talk 01:40, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Just jumping in, Destroyeraa, I won't be able to review Dolores either. However, there are plenty of other users capable of reviewing meteorology articles. Maybe reach out to someone else in the project? (either WPTC or anyone in the weather project) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:05, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Noah, I'm about finished with Dolores' met history. Would you mind taking a quick look at the article? Thanks. ~ Destroyeraa🌀 19:09, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't see anything show-stopping, but the GA review will largely be aimed at increasing the quality. I assume the impact will have more for Mexico, right? Noah^Talk 22:34, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Noah, the thing is that there wasn’t much impact for Mexico. Just some rains. I also recently nominated Hurricane Barry (2019) for GA. ~ Destroyeraa🌀 00:31, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Noah, I just nominated Hurricane Dolores for GA review. I added a sentence for impact in Mexico, and also added a record along with a new IR image of Dolores' peak intensity. The article looks good. It's the most I've ever put into for an article on Wikipedia :) ~ Destroyeraa🌀 16:52, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

@Destroyeraa: Good! FA is an entirely different ball game. The first article I did had lots of help from other people. I'm just glad I was able to do the storm justice. People unfortunately feel that TDs don't deserve articles. Noah^Talk 18:56, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Once Dolores gets to GA, I'll probably promote either Barry 2019 or some other storm in 2019 to GA. Then, I will consider bringing Dolores to FA. Though I will need help from user like you and Hink.

Regarding tropical depressions, yes, some TDs do deserve an article, like Nineteen-E. However there is currently a TD article, which is a good article - Tropical Depression One (2009) under discussion for merging with the season article. Some TD articles that didn't have much impact could be merged. ~ Destroyeraa🌀 19:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2020 stock market selloff

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A barnstar for you!

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		You know why I'm awarding this to you! ~ Destroyeraa🌀 23:18, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2018 Pacific hurricane season

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2018 Pacific hurricane season you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 07:41, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Wait Noah, I thought 2018 EPAC was already a GA. I must've got it wrong. I was a start-class a few weeks before, right? ~ Destroyeraa🌀 12:42, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

@Destroyeraa: It has been a GAN for several weeks (it retains C-class until it becomes a GA). Noah^Talk 19:55, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2018 Pacific hurricane season

The article 2018 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:2018 Pacific hurricane season for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 17:02, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Though or ridge?

See Talk:Tropical Storm Vicente (2018)

"...A deep-layer [[Trough (meteorology)|ridge]] located over the [[Gulf of Mexico]] and central Mexico..."

Anychance this is just a typo?--Jarodalien (talk) 09:59, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

@Jarodalien: The link was wrong. Noah^Talk 10:06, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Also please check Talk:Hurricane_Willa#source_issues.--Jarodalien (talk) 16:36, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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Tropical Storm Ileana (2018)

Hello,

I've been updating the page on the most viewed TFAs of all time, and Tropical Storm Ileana (2018) made the list, with 158k+ pageviews on 21/08/2020. It's the only weather event TFA to have attracted this kind of interest, so I thought you would like to know. Congrats :) RetiredDuke (talk) 13:52, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Hurricane Lane (2018) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Hurricane Lane (2018) has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 28 November 2020. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 28, 2020. Thanks! Ealdgyth (talk) 15:04, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ealdgyth: Thanks for letting me know! Would it be okay for me to nominate another article relatively soon for FAC? I am still waiting on Hurricane Hector (2018), but I think it is moving in the right direction. Noah^Talk 18:16, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Ask Ian or Laser - I'm extremely busy this month off wiki and haven't got a clue where things stand at FAC right now... sorry! Carving out enough time to schedule TFA was a challenge this month...--Ealdgyth (talk) 18:39, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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TFA

Thank you today for Hurricane Lane (2018), about "the 2018 pacific storm that affected Hawaii"! - ... giving thanks with trees instead of turkey ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Re: Michael's met

Hey Noah, quick q on Michael: are you absolutely sure that the met article should exist? I'm not proposing a merger, but I do notice that the main article is on the short side, and would be especially short if the FL sub-article was split off too. We've never really set standards for when a storm sub-article should be split off (and there were some unnecessary proposals from this year). Those are my only thoughts on the article - if it's kept, then you've addressed all of my previous concerns. It's featured quality IMO, but it's like a featured quality section. If you do end up merging it (big if), then the prose/section would we be featured quality, and the main article would be one section closer to being done. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

There is a decent bit of technical terminology that is explained in the met article that deals with the formation and intensification. These bits are vital to understanding how the storm came to be, but are too technical for the main article. I think there will be a lot of expansion in regards to other areas that will help buff up the article after Florida gets split off. Noah^Talk 15:29, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

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Done – everything is done! 🐔 Chicdat  ^{Bawk to me!} 13:06, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar
		For 3 years of outstanding contributions to tropical cyclone articles, for pretty much reviving WPTC from a place of stagnation, for spearheading the recent GA and FA campaigns in the field of tropical cyclones, and for many, many other accomplishments. You truly are an amazing editor. As such, I proudly bestow this barnstar upon you! Honestly, I would give you one of the higher level awards available on WPTC as well, but I don't think I have the clearance to do that...yet. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 12:39, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence

Well, the first barnstar alone wasn't enough to capture my gratitude for what you've done. So here's this barnstar for you as well: for your excellent contributions, for revitalizing WPTC, for upgrading so many tropical cyclone articles to GA or FA status and taking on the role of reviewer for other nominations, and for being an amazing person in general. And thank you for leading the project in so many different areas. None of that is easy. I admire your persistence and dedication. You are one of the finest editors on Wikipedia I've ever met. It's been a real pleasure meeting you, and I hope that we will be able to accomplish amazing things together in the future. I wish you the best of luck in your studies and whatever you choose to pursue in life. May you have a successful journey everywhere you go! LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 12:39, 19 December 2020 (UTC)