Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cyclone Catarina 2004.jpg

Cyclone Catarina

Reason: This is the only South Atlantic tropical cyclone to be officially accepted. This shows Catarina nearing the Brazilian coast. Look at the symmetry of the storm.
Articles this image appears in: Cyclone Catarina, Effects of Global Warming, List of South America tropical cyclones, Portal:Tropical cyclones/Featured article/List of South America tropical cyclones
Creator: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

Support as nominator --Elena85 | Talk to Me | 1800 edits!!!' 23:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Comment --I decided that this picture is special, I know that there is another hurricane FPC going on, but please see this.

--Elena85 | Talk to Me | 1800 edits!!!' 23:56, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Elena85, it is a beautiful image, but please do not once again start flooding FPC with hurricane images as you did this past spring. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know, but I didn't nominate the other one and I knew I would forget if I waited.

--Elena85 | Talk to Me | 1800 edits!!!' 01:16, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- Well then the picture can't be as special to you as you claimed. :) –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 01:20, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support There is no such thing as a south atlantic hurricane season. Great picture of a one of a kind event. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 01:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I don't think that the nominator made it clear that this is the only known cyclone/hurricane in the South Atlantic. Plasticup ^T/C 01:39, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Fixed that.--Elena85 | Talk to Me | 1800 edits!!!' 01:46, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support meets all the criteria, plus historical rarity is a plus. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:49, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per encyclopedic value and the presence of 'wow'. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 01:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Durova^Charge! 03:48, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Impressive image; it also has encyclopedic value, representing a unique storm. Hello32020 (talk) 04:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - This is far from the most best quality, most captivating image of a hurricane that is available. The first thing that caught my eye was that the image is especially blurry when enlarged. This picture of Katrina, for example, seems to be significantly sharper [1]. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 05:13, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Very unsharp on left side - wonder why, since it's sharp at right... --Janke | Talk 08:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the sharpness problem: The raw feed shows the storm is at the edge of the covered area - where spatial resolution degrades rapidly. One pixel represents 250m in the centre, but more much more at the edge. The projection performed by NASA gives a "top down" view, but cannot add detail in those margins.--Nilf anion (talk) 10:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as above Muhammad(talk) 09:07, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The poor resolution is just too much in the important parts of this image, especially the eye. There are hundreds of cyclone images from this sensor, those where the eye is near the centre of the swathe produce images with a much higher technical quality, and are more impressive visually than this one. Incidentally the caption is wrong - the image is from March 27.--Nilf anion (talk) 10:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I don't think it is that great of a picture. We know the storm is impressive and notable, but that isn't shown by the image at all. There already is a very striking image of this same storm. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:42, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too bad if it's out of coverage range, it just isn't sharp enough. It's pretty good about the highlights though, a major problem with Hurricanehink's image immediately above.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:32, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Personally I think that the EV of a high resolution image showing the entire storm along the Brazilian coast out weighs some technical issues. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 00:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I agree with Uncle Bungle. Intothewoods29 (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Another satellite picture of a storm has recently been featured. This starts to get boring for non-storm-geeks. This picture has really nice EV value, despite the flaws in quality, but I don't think it should be a FP. Luca (talk) 04:16, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This hurricane FP (Hurricane Isabel) shows a hurricane in far greater detail (in addition to well illustrating the size of the hurricane), being everything the current candidate is and more. M.Nelson (talk) 01:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]