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Number 4, September 3, 2006
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject now has its own IRC channel.
Storm of the month
Typhoon Saomai (known as Typhoon Juan to PAGASA) claimed at least 441 lives and caused over $1.5 billion in damage. After forming on August 4 near Chuuk, the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Marianas, the Philippines, Taiwan and southeastern China. It started to intensify, and reached its official peak with winds of 95 knots (175 km/h, 110 mph) on August 9. The JTWC reported that it peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon the same day, a strength Chinese forecasters described as the most powerful to hit China in 50 years. Saomai maintained that strength until landfall on August 10 and dissipated inland the next day.
Other tropical cyclone activity
There were 16 other tropical cyclones during August, in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The August member of the month is Nilfanion. The WikiProject awards this to him for his contributions in many diverse sections of the project. Nilfanion joined the Wikiproject in April and provides track maps for the project and has produced a featured picture. He has developed the tropical cyclone Commons Category scheme in the process. In addition he has produced a number of quality articles and is active in assessment.
New and improved articles
Storm article statistics
Tropical cyclone imagery
When uploading an image of a tropical cyclone please
The following is a good image description:
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|Description=Visible image of Hurricane Ernesto on 2006-08-27 at peak strength just south of Haiti as seen by GOES-12.
|Source=Original image located here.
|Date=2006-08-27
|Author=The Naval Research Laboratory
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[[Category:Hurricane Ernesto (2006)]] [[Category:NRL images of tropical cyclones|Ernesto (2006)]]
User:Mitchazenia/Hurricane Eleven (1933). Tell me what you think about it so far.Mitchazenia 19:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
# The lede should be longer and not as repetitive. "It affected Cuba as a Category 2 hurricane and affected Mexico and Texas as a Category 3 hurricane killing 179 people." You shouldn't repeat so much in one sentence (you used affected twice and Category X hurricane twice). Expand it to two paragraphs, at least.
# Are the numerous pressure reports important in the storm history? Typically, the way to measure the hurricane's strength is with its maximum sustained winds. Very few people use pressure, especially when saying useless things like "At the time, Eleven was the strongest storm of the season untill the next storm became the strongest at 948 mbar".
# You can't call the hurricane "Eleven". It had no name. Therefore, you'll have to call it "the hurricane" or something like that.
# What does this mean? "in Hidalgo County, Mercedes" Hidalgo County, Mercedes is not a place. Furthermore, it's not needed. "The hurricane made landfall just to the north of Brownsville" will suffice.
# "The system rapidly weakened as it moved through southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, and dissipated within 24 hours of making landfall over the mainland, over "The Borderline" which is the border of Mexico and Texas. The thirty-fifth and final advisory was released when Eleven was a minimal tropical storm status of 40 mph winds." You're trying waaay too hard to extend the article. The first sentence is useless, inaccurate, and poorly worded after the word "landfall". "The Borderline"? Why would you put it in quotes, and why would you include it? The term is very unofficial, and it's already implied the hurricane dissipated in northeastern Mexico. The next sentence very inaccurate. How do you know it had 35 advisories on it? For your information, the Weather Bureau issued advisories for hurricanes twice a day, and their best tracks were later extrapolated and interpolated based on more research.
# The impact section is poorly made. You should organize the impact by area, not just random collections of sentences. You need a source for "Many weak buildings were destoyed, most of them at Harlingen, Texas." Again, you use Hidalgo County, Mercedes. Typically, one uses a City, X County format. "Many businessmen who expected more severe damage were angry with the meteorologist in charge of the Corpus Christi station, though the National Weather Bureau assured the preparations were needed and saved lives. 90 percent of the citrus crop was destroyed in LRGV." needs a source. What is LRGV? You need to explain acronyms in articles and expect the user to know what they mean. It seems like the "many businessmen" part isn't impact... more like aftermath. Try and find more aftermath to make a section for it.
# The trivia section should be removed. Trivia is not needed for hurricane articles. The first "trivia" fact, "The hurricane became was the fifth and final storm of the 1933 season to hit Texas, a record held on for 73 years." is very vague, incorrect, and sourceless. Taking a quick look at the best track, it was the only hurricane to hit Texas in the year, along with two tropical storms. The other trivia fact, "Hurricane Eleven ranks 10th on the list of most intense hurricanes to enter the Gulf Coast with the minimum pressure of 949 mbar (28.03 inHg). It is behind Betsy (1965), Dennis (2005), Ivan (2004), Frederic (1979), Allen (1980), Celia (1970), Audrey (1957), Opal (1995), Rita (2005), Carla (1961), Katrina (2005), Camille (1969) & several unnamed storms." is incorrect and important as well. Taking a quick look, it is twentieth on the list. Something in twentieth place doesn't deserve a mention.
Mitchazenia 16:32, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Just wondering if you know of any Australian users who contribute to cyclone articles (apart from me, of course)? I feel lonely being the only one! hahaha By the way, you should archive this talk page as it is far too long. RaNdOm26 09:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
It has been moved to User:Robomaeyhem/Infobox hurricane user due to it being deleted. °≈§→ Robomæyhem: T/←§≈° 21:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Look in the Med. Looks like a current storm storm to me! →Cyclone1→ 20:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't have a burning urge to chat anymore than I do on Wikipedia, but I'll keep the link in mind. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 22:04, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Its my new article and its to me really descriptive. I hope you like it.Mitchazenia 20:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if I should be asking you this, but I am questioning Chacor's recent behaviour towards me. He claims that it is OK to treat people unfairly, which I think is very ridiculous. He continues on reverting my responses, and he says he has not once being uncivil. This is being disrespectful and discourteous. I want you to consider this please, because I feel that I am being tricked. RaNdOm26 09:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Hink, I found some info on Hurricane Keith for its second landfall in Mexico; however, I don't know where to find the currency/inflation converter to update the infobox. Any help? Titoxd(?!?) 03:06, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Grr. How about next time, check the talk page for more info? Least you could have done; then you'd have realised I already had something going. – Chacor 03:08, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Don't know what's up. Try using a different nick? – Chacor 15:42, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Or getting real, proper IRC clients? – Chacor 16:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Found the problem... [00:13] -Idoru.- *** Notice -- This gateway is temporarily blocked due to abuse. Apologies for the inconvenience! Using a proper IRC client should work. – Chacor 16:16, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
The Roy Leep has been renominated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roy Leep (Second nomination) Lost Knob 08:24, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Saw your sandbox. Wow, I had no idea there was that much info on TD 11. How on earth can you find all that info on storms? Lol. →Cyclone1→ 23:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Saw that you started this article. I'm working on expanding it, but where'd you get the PAGASA names from? At least one ref I have conflicts your list, apparently TD-04W was named "Deling" by PAGASA but the list in the article says "Diging". – Chacor 15:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of beginning an article on Hurricane Alberto (2000). I did see the agreement of merging the article in the talk page, but that was nearly a year ago. Could you please tell me if it's now okay to create an article now? I know that the storm had little impact, but it does not matter when the storm existed or whatsoever. RaNdOm26 03:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
We have a problem. According to Unisys we had 45 storms not 39 (39 tropical/6 subtropical)
Here,Look:
Is this supposed to be right? Also isnt Super Typhoon Opal's winds a record at 195 mph.1998's Mitchazenia (joking) 16:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I was intrigued by this topic when I saw it on Gordon's talk page. I made a detailed analysis you might want to read:
Based on my observations using the GIBBS imagry, it appears that Gordon was one storm. At one point north of Cuba, it does appear as though the system has two LLCCs. However, looking farther back, there doesn't seem to be any other systems active in the southwestern Atlantic until Gordon gets there. Once Gordon gets there, it seems to interact with a trough moving off the east coast of the United States. That trough shows up quite clearly in this reverse infrared image as that smaller black mass off the Carolinas north of Gordon's outer bands. Gordon had a broad circulation as it was and when it hit Cuba, weakened, and interated with that trough , the circulation became elongated from the northeast to the southwest . This caused the storm to appear as though it had two centers. When the trough became less of an influence , Gordon's circulation consolidated . That is my hypothesis, based on my analysis of the satellite imagry. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 22:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey, in the Impact section of Hurricane Erika (2003), you have a ref (currently numbered 12) named "mns", but that's not connected with any existing reference. What's that reference supposed to be? Thanks! —AySz88\^-^ 22:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject has its own IRC channel.
Storm of the month
Hurricane Ioke is the most intense hurricane on record in the Central Pacific. After forming on August 19 to the south of Hawaii, Ioke moved to the northwest and hit Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane. It strengthened further as it moved to the west, reaching Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times, twice in the Central Pacific and once in the Western Pacific. After the storm entered the Western Pacific it directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light.
Other tropical cyclone activity
New and improved articles
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Storm article statistics
Member of the month
The September member of the month is Thegreatdr, David Roth. David Roth is a meteorologist at the HPC, who as part of his work there is producing Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data. Dozens of the maps he has created are used in Wikipedia articles. He has produced a number of valuable articles to the project such as tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season.
Hope you like this detailed article. :>
HurricaneCraze32 aka Mitchazenia 17:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, I've given it a stronger copyediting now. However, there's a few things to fix, but that I don't really have the time to do. For example, you have to remove all of the abbreviations in the references. While we understand what HPC stands for, most readers don't, so we need to make sure to spell it out within <ref> calls. Then, how can a hurricane cause 5000 deaths and 184 deaths at the same time? That didn't make much sense, so you should double-check that. Check the edit history for other examples. Also, a reading by someone who isn't familiar with the subject could help; I'll ask for it, but you could try too. Finally, reference the ACE table somehow. Nilfanion said you could reference the best track, yet it hasn't been done... Titoxd(?!?) 06:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Ive made the Northeast Airlines Flight 946 article, and i want to know if its good enough. Storm05 15:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Haven't been here for a while. Anyway, I waited two months to see if those guys saying subtropical ACE is not counted by NOAA could prove. They didn't. I recently did an ACE Excel Spreadsheet showing ACE of all Storms of TS or higher, for all times tropical and subtropical. How do I pos5t the spreadsheet on here? --Lionheart Omega 23:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
How?--Lionheart Omega 23:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
It might be worthy for inclusion into the rainfall climatology...though there wasn't much rain with the low. I could look into it. Are you thinking of putting an "other storms" section to that season? Thegreatdr 15:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Since when (and where) did tha proposal took place because i cant find any discussion about it on the merging page (exluding your addtion to it) or on the project talk page. Storm05 21:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
You might be interested in that page... ;) Titoxd(?!?) 05:10, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
I need help, ive created the Typhoon Shanshan article and ready to move onto the mainspace, but a user is opossing it, what do I do? , I already explained to the user of my support of the article moving on to the mainspace but he still opposes it. Storm05 18:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Hurricanehink! Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of 75/0/1! I hope I can live up to the standards of adminship, and I will try my best to make Wikipedia a better place. Feel free to send me a message if you need any assistance. :) |
I'd like you to reanalyze the following five 2004 storms that, for the most part, I wrote and all are currently at Start-class in a self-decision: Danielle, Earl, Hermine (that one you wrote but I published), Karl and Lisa. Since we have different standards, I'd like to get a better look at the situation and find spots for improvement. CrazyC83 19:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks anyway. I might put them up for GAC and see what happens. (Although there is a major backlog in there) CrazyC83 04:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Any chance you can help me finding pictures and finshing a chart that i started?Mitchazenia V3.0 20:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Partly, ever since I had joined-I had gotten more critsism. And I actually posted before I joined. I never said I would stop. Right now-i'm trying to restart and turn myself around.Mitchazenia V3.0 21:27, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I gave up on my Beryl sandbox. But, how do I get rid of the previous edit history? Or is that permanent? →Cyclone1→ 15:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Fabiannp2.JPG. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Nilfanion (talk) 15:44, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Fabiannp1.JPG. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Nilfanion (talk) 15:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know - I blocked him indef for abusive sockpuppetry (he was a sock of another user I blocked for having an inappropriate username). --Coredesat 01:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll do that. I believe this isn't the first time Storm05 and I have had article creation difficulties. Something happened with TD11 a while back, but now it won't happen again thanks to that page. →Cyclone1→ 19:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Yeah. Which the exact reason I think I'm gonna stick to revamping some articles for a while. →Cyclone1→ 20:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Here is an awesome site. In case you haven't seen it, it's a new gallery from the NCDC of tropical cyclone movies, birth to death, since 1983. You can't just click it and see it, because it send's you to a Quicktime page that doesn't work anymore. You need to right click the link > Save link/target as... > chose an area to save it > click open. It sould work. It's worth it. If you don't like my instructions, there's a better discription on the page. Just click "troubleshooting." Just in case you wanted to know. →Cyclone1→ 21:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I am asking about the news archive website that you discovered recently. What things does it cover? How much info is there? RaNdOm26 07:46, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I found some neat damage pictures from Typhoon Wanda and S.Typhoon Amy of 1962, but since in Adobe format, i cant figure out how to upload from it. Its a JTWC report of both. Please help.Mitchazenia V5.0 16:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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