Обсуждение пользователя: Желтый Эван

The Hurricane Herald - это произвольно периодический информационный бюллетень WikiProject Tropical Cyclones . Информационный бюллетень направлен на то, чтобы подвести итоги недавней деятельности и разработок WikiProject, в дополнение к глобальнойактивности тропических циклонов . The Hurricane Herald издает с момента своего первого выпуска 4 июня 2006 г .; с тех пор прошло более восьми лет. Если вы хотите получать или прекращать подписку на этот информационный бюллетень, посетите список рассылки . В этом выпуске The Hurricane Herald освещаются все связанные с проектом события за два месяца 2019 года. Редактором и автором этого выпуска является Hurricanehink  ( обсуждение  · вклад).

Посетите эту страницу и добавьте в закладки любые интересующие вас предложения. Это поможет улучшить информационный бюллетень и другие статьи, связанные с циклонами. Предыдущие выпуски можно посмотреть здесь .

Шторм месяца ( Тайфун Вутип ) и другая тропическая активность

Тайфун Вутип был самым сильным февральским тайфуном за всю историю наблюдений , превзойдя тайфун Хигос с 2015 года. 25 февраля Вутип достиг максимальной интенсивности как супертайфун, эквивалентный Категории 5, с максимальной 10-минутной продолжительностью ветра 195 км / ч (120 миль в час). 1-минутный устойчивый ветер со скоростью 260 км / ч (160 миль / ч) и минимальным центральным давлением 915 гПа (мбар).

Среди других штормов сезона тайфунов 2019 года - долгоживущая тропическая депрессия в январе и годичный тропический шторм Пабук , обрушившийся на юг Таиланда и ставший первым штормом, обрушившимся на этот район после Линды в 1997 году . Пабук стал причиной 10 смертей и ущерба в размере 151 миллион долларов. Войдя в северную часть Индийского океана, Пабук отметил самый ранний шторм в этом бассейне за календарный год.

На юго-западе Индийского океана в проливе Мозамбик образовались два тропических шторма - Десмонд и Экетсанг. В результате последнего шторма на Мадагаскаре погибли 10 человек. В феврале возникли два интенсивных тропических циклона - Фунани и Гелена. Последний шторм оставил без электричества 90% Родригеса. На момент публикации этого информационного бюллетеня наблюдается тропическое беспокойство.

В австралийском регионе тропический циклон Пенни возник в конце декабря недалеко от Квинсленда и в начале января трижды поразил Австралию. Вокруг Австралии сформировалась серия тропических минимумов и циклонов, включая циклон Ома, который дважды пересек 160 ° в.д., границу с южной частью Тихого океана. В начале января циклон Мона вызвал наводнение на Фиджи, которое сформировалось ранее в австралийском регионе. Cyclone Pola активен на момент публикации этого информационного бюллетеня.

Новые участники WikiProject с момента последнего информационного бюллетеня в ноябре 2013 г.

• Остинмен
• Соединенные Штаты Америки
• Киев
• Supportstorm
• Анирудх Эмани
• Ураган
• МанхэттенСэнди
• ЭндрюПетерТ
• Нова Кристаллис
• Тайфун2013
• Биралаал
• Свет и тьма 2000
• Крит-тонкла
• Мастер Времени
• Дэмиен4794
• Нино Маракот
• Розалина2427
• KN2731
• Райдер
• Измик
• УраганГонсало
• Jdcomix
• Джаспер Дэн
• Hamham31
• Причард440
• Атомный7732
• Шоколадный поезд
• QuitenBases
• Ураган Ной
• Брендон
• NCFriend
• Ураган, чувак, 2016
• MJake33
• Брендонциклон
• B тире
• Ксиклон
• INeedSupport
• CooperScience
• МариоПротIV
• Мастер0Гарфилд
• Грамматика
• FleurDeOdile
• BWomack
• Brandontracker
• Неописанный
• Derpdadoodle
• Уф-офф
• МысВердеВолна
• УраганКалебN
• INFOWeather1
• X2A3Q
• ЦиклонЙорис
• Hdjensofjfnen
• hueman1
• EBGamingWiki
• SilSinn9821
• Джаяб314
• ТРОПИЧЕСКИЙ ЦИКЛОНАЛЕРТ

Участник месяца (издание) - Ураган Ной

Пользователь: Hurricane Noah редактирует Википедию с 2016 года и присоединился к WPTC в октябре 2017 года. В этом году Hurricane Noah создал список избранных ураганов категории 2 в Тихом океане , а также статью класса A Tropical Depression Nineteen-E (2018 ) . Спасибо Hurricane Noah за ваш вклад - надеюсь, вы продолжите редактирование!

Последние оповещения о WikiProject

Ниже приведены последние разработки статей, обновленные AAlertBot на момент публикации этого выпуска. Из-за работы бота некоторые из этих обновлений могут показаться неуместными; тем не менее, они включены сюда.

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: новости и события

По мере того, как Википедия достигает 18-летнего возраста, мы все стареем, жизнь становится насыщенной, напряженность растет, и мы получаем и теряем редакторов. Это особенно заметно летом, когда проект становится более загруженным. В последние годы проект замедлился, в том числе и я. Я хочу сделать все возможное, чтобы повторно привлечь редакторов, поэтому через шесть лет я перезапускаю этот информационный бюллетень. Я не хочу писать все каждый месяц, поэтому, пожалуйста, свяжитесь со мной, если вы заинтересованы в написании каких-либо текстов или если у вас есть идеи для участия в проекте. Месяц основных новостей заключается в том, что на странице обсуждения проекта размещено множество новых целей проекта , так что проверьте их, если у вас есть время. ♫ Hurricanehink ( разговор ) 17:39, 26 февраля 2019 (UTC)

Текущая оценочная таблица

Оценки действительны на момент публикации. В зависимости от того, когда вы просматриваете этот информационный бюллетень, таблица может быть устаревшей. Смотрите здесь для последней, наиболее современных статистических данных. На данный момент имеется 147 избранных статей и 69 избранных списков . Существует 142 статьи A-класса, но это количество может измениться, в зависимости от того, потребуем ли мы, чтобы все статьи A-класса сначала имели обзор A-класса. Есть 944 хороших статьи, то есть вполне возможно, что к концу года мы дойдем до нашей 1000-й GA. Всего 61 статья B-класса, возможно потому, что большинство статей такого качества уже прошли проверку GA. Есть 353 статьи C-класса, 720 статей для начинающих и 139 статей для заглушек, 49 списков и 8 текущих статей. Это означает, что примерно половина проекта имеет рейтинг GA или выше - включая списки / будущие статьи, 1330 статей имеют статус ниже GA, по сравнению с 1302 статьями GA или выше. Если проект останется продуктивным, то на этом этапе половина проекта получит оценку «хорошо» или выше.

О шкале оценок →

С главной страницы

С главной страницы документы по теме WikiProject, которые появляются на главной странице с 2018 года в хронологическом порядке.

Сегодняшняя избранная статья

• Десятая тропическая депрессия (2005) - 2.10.18
• Ураган Мари (2014) - 16.03.18
• Сезон ураганов в Атлантике 2003 г. - 06.04.18
• Ураган Кармен - 03.05.18
• Сезон ураганов в Атлантике 1988 г. - 30.05.18
• Метеорологическая история урагана Гордон - 07.06.18
• Ураган Даниэль (2006) - 16.07.18
• Ураган Брет - 18.08.18
• Тайфун Наби - 29.08.18
• Последствия урагана Изабель в Северной Каролине - 18.09.18
• Ураган Хейзел - 05.10.18
• Ураган Ирен (2005) - 21.11.18
• Циклон Алтея - 19.12.18
• Тропический шторм Марко (1990) - 01.02.19
• Ураган Хуан (1985) - 20.02.19

Кроме того, их было много. Знаете ли вы? записи на главной странице.

В этом разделе перечислены статьи и списки, которые стали популярными с 2017 года.

Статьи

• Ураган Эндрю  - 12george1  ( разговор  · вклад )
• Ураган Фред (2015)  - Хилиан Аури  ( обсуждение  · вклад )

Списки

• Список тропических циклонов Аравийского полуострова  - Hurricanehink  ( обсуждение  · вклад ) (также хорошая тема)
• Список Бермудских ураганов  - Juliancolton  ( разговор  · вклад )
• Список тихоокеанских ураганов категории 2  - ураган Ной  ( обсуждение  · вклад )
• Список ураганов в Тихом океане категории 3  - KN2731  ( обсуждение  · вклад )
• Хронология сезона ураганов в Атлантике 2001 г.  - TropicalAnalystwx13  ( обсуждение  · вклад )
• Хронология сезона циклонов в северной части Индийского океана 2015 г.  - Иуне  ( обсуждение  · вклад )
• Хронология сезона ураганов в Атлантике 2016 г.  - TropicalAnalystwx13  ( обсуждение  · вклад )

Темы

• Сезон ураганов в Атлантике 1896 года (хорошая тема)

WikiProject To-Do

The Hurricane Herald - это произвольно периодический информационный бюллетень WikiProject Tropical Cyclones . Информационный бюллетень направлен на то, чтобы подвести итоги недавней деятельности и разработок WikiProject, в дополнение к глобальнойактивности тропических циклонов . The Hurricane Herald издает с момента своего первого выпуска 4 июня 2006 г .; с тех пор прошло почти тринадцать лет. Если вы хотите получать или прекращать подписку на этот информационный бюллетень, посетите список рассылки . В этом выпуске The Hurricane Herald освещаются все связанные с проектом события с 14 апреля по 31 мая 2019 г. Редактором и автором этого выпуска является Hurricane Noah  ( обсуждение  · вклад ).

Посетите эту страницу и добавьте в закладки любые интересующие вас предложения. Это поможет улучшить информационный бюллетень и другие статьи, связанные с циклонами. Предыдущие выпуски можно посмотреть здесь .

Статья месяца , Джейсон Рис

История присвоения имен тропическим циклонам . Практика использования названий для обозначения тропических циклонов насчитывает несколько столетий, когда штормы называются в честь мест, святых или вещей, на которые они обрушиваются, до формального начала именования в каждом бассейне. Заслуга за первое использование личных имен для погодных систем принадлежит метеорологу правительства Квинсленда Клементу Ррагге , который дал названия тропическим циклонам и антициклонам в период с 1887 по 1907 год. Эта система именования вышла из употребления в течение нескольких лет после ухода Ррагге на пенсию, пока она не была отменена. возродился в конце Второй мировой войны для бассейна Западной части Тихого океана. В последующие десятилетия различные схемы именования были введены для Мирового океана, в том числе для частей Атлантического, Тихого и Индийского океанов. Большинство этих списков составляется комитетом Всемирной метеорологической организации по тропическим циклонам для региона и включает имена из разных культур, а также языков. На протяжении многих лет возникали разногласия по поводу имен, используемых в разное время, при этом имена были опущены по религиозным и политическим причинам. Например, женские имена использовались исключительно в бассейнах в разное время с 1945 по 2000 год и были предметом нескольких протестов. Названия значительных тропических циклонов в северной части Атлантического океана, Тихого океана и в австралийском регионе исключены из списков имен и заменены другими названиями на заседаниях различных комитетов по тропическим циклонам.

Буря месяца и другая тропическая активность

Циклон Фани был чрезвычайно сильным циклоническим штормом, который обрушился на берег в Одише , Индия 3 мая. Шторм достиг максимальной интенсивности, как циклон, близкий к категории 5, с 3-минутными устойчивыми ветрами со скоростью 215 км / ч (130 миль в час), 1- минутный устойчивый ветер со скоростью 250 км / ч (155 миль / ч) и минимальное центральное давление 937 гПа (мбар). Фани нанес ущерб Индии и Бангладеш на сумму более 1,8 миллиарда долларов (2019 долларов США)и убил по меньшей мере 89 человек.

С момента выхода последнего информационного бюллетеня было сформировано двенадцать систем.

• Юго-запад Индийского океана

  В юго-западной части Индийского океана циклон Кеннет обрушился на берег в Мозамбике примерно через 1 месяц после циклона Идай , вызвав масштабные наводнения и разрушения. В целом Кеннет убил по меньшей мере 52 человека и нанес ущерб на сумму более 100 миллионов долларов. Кроме того, тропический циклон Лорна сформировался над восточной частью бассейна в конце апреля и рассеялся в начале мая, не затронув сушу.

• Австралийский регион

  В австралийском регионе в начале мая сформировались циклоны Лили и Энн, которые затронули сушу. О случаях смерти не сообщалось, хотя Лили нанесла умеренный ущерб островам Малуку и Восточному Тимору .

• южной части Тихого океана

  В южной части Тихого океана тропическая депрессия образовалась в середине мая, но не смогла усилиться и рассеялась несколько дней спустя.

• Южная атлантика

  В Южной Атлантике субтропический штормовой ягуар сформировался в конце мая и продолжался примерно два дня, прежде чем стал внетропическим.

• Западная часть Тихого океана

  В западной части Тихого океана в первой половине мая существовали три слабые тропические депрессии.

• Североатлантический

  В Северной Атлантике субтропический шторм Андреа образовался в тот же день, что и Jaguar, но не усилился и рассеялся на следующий день.

• Сезон ураганов в восточной части Тихого океана начался 15 мая.
• Сезон ураганов в Атлантике начнется 1 июня в 2:00 утра по восточному поясному времени.
• Сезон ураганов в центральной части Тихого океана начнется где-то после 12:00 AM HST 1 июня.

Новые участники WikiProject с момента последнего информационного бюллетеня в апреле 2019 г.

• Super Typhoon Eden  ( Обсуждение  · вклад )
• SaiTheCyclone  ( разговор  · вклад )

Нашим новым участникам: добро пожаловать в проект и удачного редактирования! Не стесняйтесь проверять список дел в правом нижнем углу бюллетеня, чтобы найти то, над чем вы, возможно, захотите поработать. Нашим опытным участникам: спасибо за ваши правки и неустанный вклад!

Редакция для приветствия новых пользователей от Hurricanehink

Ежегодно новые и старые редакторы помогают поддерживать новый сезон сезонных статей. Старшие пользователи, вероятно, привыкли к стандартам проекта, например, к тому, как правильно использовать Wikilink и ссылаться на него. Новые пользователи могут совершать ошибки, и они могут повторять их снова и снова, если не знают лучше. Если кто-нибудь (кто случайно это прочитает) встретит нового пользователя, пожалуйста, не кусайтесь , потому что, получив достаточное количество ответов, они решат, что эта группа редакторов слишком злая и невнимательная. Это все волонтерский проект; никто не может никого к чему-либо принуждать. Мы все здесь из-за нашей любви к знаниям и тропическим циклонам. Если вы найдете кого-то нового, подумайте об использовании официального шаблона приветствия WPTC - Wikipedia: WikiProject Tropical cyclones / Welcome .

Я также рекомендую, чтобы, если вы знакомы с исследователями тропических циклонов, сообщите об этом и попробуйте нанять их для редактирования. Редакторы-ветераны не могут редактировать вечно. Жизнь становится активной, и реальный мир манит!

Участник месяца (издание) - Желтый Эван

Yellow Evan участвует в WPTC с 2008 года. Со времени выхода последнего информационного бюллетеня Yellow Evan повысил статус хороших статей для 5 статей о тайфунах, а также создал еще 2. В целом он создал и / или внес значительный вклад в более чем 130 хороших статей. Ваша работа в бассейне Западной части Тихого океана бесценна ... Спасибо за ваш вклад!

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Ниже приведены последние разработки статей, обновленные AAlertBot на момент публикации этого выпуска. Из-за работы бота некоторые из этих обновлений могут показаться неуместными; тем не менее, они включены сюда.

В этом разделе перечислены материалы, которые стали избранными, статьи и списки с момента выпуска предыдущего информационного бюллетеня в середине апреля 2019 г.
С 14 апреля по 31 мая 2019 г.была продвинута1 избранная статья :

• Циклон Раджа

• Обзор избранных статей в настоящее время открыт для урагана Галвестон 1900 года и тропического шторма Карлотта (2018).
• Обзор избранного списка открыт для Хронологии сезона ураганов в Атлантике 2018 г.

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: новости и события

• Программа наград для проекта началась 31 мая Она включает в себя 25 уровней , которые могут быть получены путем зарабатывать очки для выполнения различных действий , таких как получение товара или признакам статьи. Дополнительные награды будут добавлены в будущем.
• На момент написания этого информационного письма впервые в истории проекта появилось больше статей с рейтингом « хорошая статья» или выше (1317), чем статей с рейтингом «B-класс» или ниже (1272).
• Каждый сезон ураганов в Атлантике с 1945 по 2007 год имеет рейтинг не ниже GA. Это впечатляющий подвиг и невероятный объем работы многих редакторов.
• Cyclone Raja стал 150-м статьёй проекта. Спасибо всем редакторам и их неустанным изменениям за написание 2,7% всех избранных статей Википедии.
• За 24 часа после публикации TCR урагана «Майкл » статью об урагане отредактировали 82 раза 18 разных пользователей.
• В марте 2019 года самой популярной статьей в проекте была статья Cyclone Idai , которую за месяц просмотрели 231969 раз. Стандартный циклон был вторым по популярности, набрав 131080 просмотров. На 3-м месте оказался ураган Катрина с 112 283 просмотрами. В топ-20 вошли сезоны ураганов в Атлантике 2018 и 19, ураганы Майкл, Флоренс, Ирма, Мария и Харви, а также ураган Седар-Киз 1896 года , который произошел 20 марта.

Новые статьи с момента последнего информационного бюллетеня включают:

• Циклон Вероника
• Список восточно-тихоокеанских тропических штормов (2000-настоящее время)
• Тропические циклоны по годам - с 2000 года по настоящее время произошло 2490 тропических циклонов различной интенсивности, в результате чего общий ущерб составил 1 триллион долларов и погибло 200 000 человек.
• Тропические циклоны на Маскаренских островах
• Тайфун Перси (1990)
• Тропический шторм Рольф
• Циклон Энн
• Циклон Лили (2019)
• Циклон Саванна
• Тайфун Эли (1992)

Новые GA включают:

• 1900 ураган Галвестон
• 1974 сезон ураганов в Атлантике
• 1977 сезон тихоокеанских ураганов
• Сезон ураганов в Тихом океане, 2015 г.
• Последствия урагана Флойд во Флориде
• Ураган Дора (1999)
• Тропический шторм Карлотта (2018)
• Тропический шторм Ирвинг (1992)
• Тайфун Янис (1992)
• Тайфун Кент
• Тайфун Офелия
• Тайфун Робин (1993)

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На данный момент насчитывается 150 избранных статей и 69 избранных списков . Существует 142 статьи A-класса, но это количество может измениться, в зависимости от того, потребуем ли мы, чтобы все статьи A-класса сначала имели обзор A-класса. 956 хороших статей, то есть вполне возможно, что к концу года мы дойдем до нашей 1000-й GA. Всего 61 статья B-класса, возможно потому, что большинство статей такого качества уже прошли проверку GA. Есть 350 статей C-класса, 720 статей начального класса и 141 статья stub-класса, с 29 списками и 8 текущими статьями. Количество списков может еще больше уменьшиться, поскольку статьи "Тропический циклон X" продолжают реклассифицироваться в качестве статей указателя набора. Эти цифры означают, что почти половина проекта имеет рейтинг GA или выше - включая списки / текущие / будущие статьи, 1272 статьи имеют статус ниже GA по сравнению с 1317 статьями GA или выше.

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С главной страницы

Из документов главной страницы WikiProject материалы, которые появились на главной странице с 14 апреля по 31 мая 2019 года в хронологическом порядке.

Сегодняшняя избранная статья

• 4 мая - Тропический шторм Николь (2010)
• 15 мая - Tropical Depression Nineteen-E (2018)

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WikiProject To-Do

The Hurricane Herald - это произвольно периодический информационный бюллетень WikiProject Tropical Cyclones . Информационный бюллетень направлен на то, чтобы подвести итоги недавней деятельности и разработок WikiProject, в дополнение к глобальнойактивности тропических циклонов . The Hurricane Herald издает с момента своего первого выпуска 4 июня 2006 г .; с тех пор прошло почти тринадцать лет. Если вы хотите получать или прекращать подписку на этот информационный бюллетень, посетите список рассылки . В этом выпуске The Hurricane Herald освещаются все связанные с проектом события с 1 июня по 31 июля 2019 г. Редактором и автором этого выпуска является ♫ Hurricanehink ( обсуждение ).

Посетите эту страницу и добавьте в закладки любые интересующие вас предложения. Это поможет улучшить информационный бюллетень и другие статьи, связанные с циклонами. Предыдущие выпуски можно посмотреть здесь .

Буря месяца и другая тропическая активность

Ураган Барри был самым влажным тропическим штормом в истории штата Арканзас и одним из четырех ураганов, обрушившихся на Луизиану в июле. Возникнув из впадины на юго-востоке США, Барри образовался 11 июля у юго-восточного побережья Луизианы. Несмотря на сдвиг ветра и асимметричную структуру, шторм перерос в минимальный ураган, а затем обрушился на берег возле Интракоастал-Сити, штат Луизиана . Барри выпал из Мексиканского залива в долину Огайо с пиком в 23,43 дюйма (595 мм) возле Рэгли, штат Луизиана . Шторм вызвал проливные дожди, отключение электроэнергии и один человек погиб из-за обратных токов. Ущерб составил более 500 миллионов долларов США.

• Сезон ураганов в Атлантике и сезон ураганов в центральной части Тихого океана начался 1 июня. Год тропических циклонов 2019-20 в Южном полушарии начался 1 июля в юго-западной части Индийского океана , австралийском регионе и южной части Тихого океана .
• С момента выхода последнего информационного бюллетеня, помимо Барри, по всему миру сформировалось еще 18 систем.
• Западная часть Тихого океана

  В западной части Тихого океана тропический шторм-сепат в июне прошел недалеко от Японии и был классифицирован JTWC как субтропический шторм. В начале июля тропический шторм Мун убил двух человек, обрушившись на Вьетнам. Тропический шторм Данас образовался недалеко от Филиппин и двинулся на север, позже пересек Корейский полуостров. К концу июля тропический шторм Нари прошел через Японию как тропическая депрессия, и тропический шторм Вифа обрушился на южный Китай. Также было три тропических впадины, одну из которых JTWC классифицировал как тропический шторм.

• Восточная часть Тихого океана

  После последнего начала сезона ураганов с 1971 года активность в бассейне началась 25 июня, когда у юго-западного побережья Мексики образовался ураган «Элвин» . Ураган Барбара превратился в сильный ураган категории 4, а его остатки позже вызвали отключение электроэнергии на Гавайях. Тропический шторм Cosme , Тропическая депрессия Четыре-E , Тропический шторм Далила и ураганы Эрик и Флосси также сформировались в июле к юго-западу от Мексики.

• Атлантический

  Недолговечная тропическая депрессия 3 образовалась недалеко от Багамских островов и исчезла к востоку от Флориды в конце июля.

• Север Индийского океана

• Циклон Ваю был мощным циклоном, который угрожал западной Индии, но остановился и значительно ослаб, прежде чем перейти на берег. Шторм унес жизни восьми человек и обрушился на западную Индию с проливными дождями и приливами.

• Юго-запад Индийского океана

• В конце июля « Зона ненормальной погоды 01» продолжалась несколько дней к востоку от Мадагаскара зимой в южном полушарии.

Участник месяца (издание) - TheAustinMan

TheAustinMan был связан с WPTC с 2009 года С последнего бюллетеня, TheAustinMan работал на Шторма месяца (Barry), а также 1915 Галвестон урагана , тайфуна Алиса (1979) , 1937 Атлантический сезон ураганов , 1944 Ямайка ураган , а 1944 г. Ураган Куба-Флорида . Продуктивный редактор TheAustinMan написал три избранных статьи и 46 хороших статей. Спасибо за ваш вклад!

Новые участники WikiProject с момента последнего информационного бюллетеня в июне / июле 2019 г.

• DavidTheMeteorologist  ( обсуждение  · вклад )
• ThePacificMan  ( разговор  · вклад )

Нашим новым участникам: добро пожаловать в проект и удачного редактирования! Не стесняйтесь проверять список дел в правом нижнем углу бюллетеня, чтобы найти то, над чем вы, возможно, захотите поработать. Нашим опытным участникам: спасибо за ваши правки и неустанный вклад!

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Оценки действительны на момент публикации. В зависимости от того, когда вы просматриваете этот информационный бюллетень, таблица может быть устаревшей. Смотрите здесь для последней, наиболее современных статистических данных.
На данный момент имеется 152 избранных статьи и 70 избранных списков . Существует 142 статьи A-класса, но это количество может измениться, в зависимости от того, потребуем ли мы, чтобы все статьи A-класса сначала имели обзор A-класса. Есть 961 хорошая статья, то есть вполне возможно, что к концу года мы дойдем до нашей 1000-й GA. Всего 62 статьи B-класса, возможно потому, что большинство статей такого качества уже прошли проверку GA. Есть 363 статьи C-класса, 717 статей начального класса и 141 статья stub-класса, с 26 списками и 9 текущими статьями. Количество списков может еще больше уменьшиться, поскольку статьи "Тропический циклон X" продолжают реклассифицироваться в качестве статей указателя набора. Эти цифры означают, что более половины проекта имеют рейтинг GA или выше - включая списки / текущие / будущие статьи, 1283 статьи имеют статус ниже GA по сравнению с 1325 статьями GA или выше.

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Руководство по поиску источников от TheAustinMan

Основные политики в отношении содержания в Википедии ( нейтральная точка зрения , отсутствие оригинальных исследований и возможность проверки ) применимы к статьям, помеченным WikiProject Tropical cyclones. Руководства по стилю проекта также предоставляют информацию о том, как эффективно цитировать источники . Соответствующие руководящие принципы, обсуждающие статьи WikiProject по тропической метеорологии, также можно найти на WP: SCICITE и WP: SCIRS .

Отчеты, бюллетени и другие продукты, выпускаемые региональными специализированными метеорологическими центрами, являются авторитетным источником метеорологической информации, касающейся тропических циклонов в их соответствующих бассейнах. Это включает как количественную, так и качественную информацию о характеристиках шторма, включая интенсивность, продолжительность и местоположение. Самые последние оценки после урагана имеют приоритет над оперативными данными. Таким образом, внесенные после сезона изменения в файл «лучшего отслеживания» шторма, новая информация, представленная в отчете о тропических циклонах, или корректировки официальной базы данных, сделанные в рамках проекта реанализа ураганов в Атлантике., или другие официальные повторные анализы заменяют оперативную информацию, если они не согласны. Данные в действующих продуктах РСМЦ все еще можно использовать, если более поздние данные не оспаривают их. Информация из других государственных агентств также может быть использована, но обычно требует указания ссылки в тексте . Хотя исходные данные метеорологических агентств являются надежным источником и на них можно ссылаться, читатели часто сталкиваются с трудностями при их интерпретации. Для получения этой информации рассмотрите возможность использования IBTrACS , более доступной базы данных треков, одобренной Всемирной метеорологической организацией (ВМО). Поскольку автоматизированная система прогнозирования тропических циклонов (ATCF), используемая Объединенным центром предупреждения о тайфунахи Национальный центр ураганов может часто меняться в реальном времени, они не должны использоваться для текущих активных штормов. Прогнозы этих агентств и РСМЦ следует использовать только для цитирования самих прогнозов; Другими словами, они могут использоваться только для описания того, что должно было произойти, и никогда не описывать то, что действительно произошло.

Карты и другие графические изображения, опубликованные метеорологическими агентствами, могут использоваться для описания событий (см. Соответствующее эссе ). Однако на них следует ссылаться только в том случае, если они явно передают поддерживаемую информацию и не требуют какой-либо строгой метеорологической интерпретации (такой как спутниковый анализ или выводы о том, что представляет собой расположение метеорологических характеристик). Как правило, самоизданные источники не должны использоваться в качестве источников данных об интенсивности штормов в настоящее время или в прошлом. Однако информация, содержащаяся в статьях из надежных источников или комментариях авторитетных экспертов по тропическим циклонаммогут использоваться в качестве источников информации, не поддерживаемой учреждениями, одобренными ВМО. Если такие источники оспаривают одобренные ВМО метеорологические данные, могут быть использованы комментарии к оспариваемой информации с указанием требований и должного веса .

Эффекты шторма обычно упоминаются в большом количестве опубликованных источников. Сюда могут входить новостные организации, организации по оценке рисков, неправительственные организации (НПО), государственные учреждения и базы данных о воздействии. Если они являются надежными источниками , их можно использовать в качестве справочных данных о воздействиях тропических циклонов. Обратите внимание, что цифры из первых отчетов о воздействии, часто распространяемые в первых отчетах о ситуации и новостях НПО, могут быстро устареть в свете новой информации. При поиске итогового ущерба или данных о потерях используйте самое последнее значение из надежного источника, поскольку эти значения обычно более стабильны и используют более свежую информацию. Если такие цифры оспариваются другими достоверными источниками, это следует отметить в статье, приписав претензии. and giving due weight. Routine calculations of damage and casualty figures (for instance, adding casualties from different countries) are acceptable as long as they arise from reliable sources.

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.

From the Main Page

From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from April 14–May 31, 2019 in chronological order.

Today's Featured Article

• June 11 - Cyclone Raja
• July 2 - 1991 Atlantic hurricane season
• July 16 - Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season

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• June 5 - Effects of Hurricane Floyd in Florida
• June 24 - 1826 Canary Islands storm

History of WikiProject Tropical cyclones

The article for hurricane (tropical cyclone) was created on December 2, 2001. On October 3, 2002, User:Ed Poor created an article for Hurricane Lili while the storm was active and near peak intensity; since then, 163 other people have edited the article to help make it a . In March 2004, User:BigT27 created an article for the hyperactive 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, then the 3rd most-active Atlantic hurricane season on record. On August 14 of that year, an article was created for Hurricane Iniki, the first non-Atlantic storm, and on August 31, the 1900 Galveston hurricane became the first TC-related . On October 4, 2004, Cyclone Tracy became featured, which was the 2nd FA in the project. A week later, User:Golbez created the article for 2004 Pacific hurricane season, which was the first season article for the EPAC.

On May 19, 2005, User:Tom created Template:Infobox Hurricane, which standardized the infobox that appears in every storm article. On July 20, User:Skywayman created the article for the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, which became the third basin to get season articles. On July 31, User:Holderca1 created the article for 2004-05 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season – for the first several years on Wikipedia, the SHEM was handled in a singular article, but was split into SWIO, AUS, and SPAC beginning on April 16, 2007, and finished on April 21, 2013. During the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, articles were created quickly for the most powerful storms, including Hurricane Dennis which quickly became an FA.

On August 26, 2005, User:CrazyC83 created an article for Hurricane Katrina after the legendary storm crossed over southern Florida. By two days later, there were 500 edits to the article, and the hurricane was threatening to hit New Orleans as a Category 4 or 5. We now know it was “only” a Category 3 at landfall. In the 14 years since Katrina, there have been 6,327 editors to the Hurricane Katrina article, along with 23 sub-articles. During the 2005 season, there were debates among editors whether lesser notable storms, like Hurricane Cindy (2005), should have articles. At one point in 2006, there were articles for every named storm during the 2005 AHS, but in the 13 years since then, articles for tropical storms Franklin, Harvey, and Lee, and Philippe were created and merged. As a way to coordinate edits among the tropical cyclone pages, User:Jdorje created Template:Hurricane on September 12, 2005. This is the same template that appears on the talk pages for every article in the WPTC. On October 5, Jdorje officially created WP:WPTC, the tropical cyclone WikiProject. That October, in quick succession, the Atlantic hurricane seasons reached back to the beginning of recordkeeping (before 1600s) due to a collaboration of several editors; User:RattleMan created the first season article for the North Indian Ocean; User:Miss Madeline successfully nominated List of California hurricanes for featured list; and Jdorje created a a standardized storm path template.

In 2006, a series of users improved articles worldwide to featured article status. Professional met David Roth joined the project, and in the same year, the NOAA and NHC copied some material from Wikipedia, including track maps, and the Tropical Cyclone Report for Tropical Storm Chris (2006). In June 2006, User:Nilfanion created the project assessment page, which documents the status of every article, organized by basin, the year, and storm shaded by the quality. On August 1, the chat room on IRC for the project was created, which allowed real-time communication among editors. There’s something special about conversing with fellow weather geeks during an epic storm, which seems to have become all the more common. On January 1, 2007, the number of good articles in the project reached 100. On January 29th, a collaboration of users made the List of retired Pacific hurricane names the first featured topic in the project. It was joined by the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season in March 2007.

In 2008, further collaborations helped make the article for tropical cyclone a featured article, one of 100 FA’s in the project. Notably among project members, Tropical Storm Erick (2007) became featured on December 14, 2008. The storm lasted for a short amount of time over open waters, and as such, it was the shortest featured article anywhere on Wikipedia. Users questioned whether the storm was notable enough to have such a detailed article, but the article described the storm in articulate detail. After an AFD and two featured article review (and a series of low-notability storms being merged), Erick was delisted as a featured article on March 2, 2013. In the period from 2008 to 2013, users created task forces for various basins, articles for all of the seasons in the Atlantic and EPAC, and enough high-quality articles that more than half of all storm/season articles were good or featured articles. In January 2008, there were 1000 articles in the entire project. On January 1, 2014, User:Yellow Evan created Typhoon Nancy (1982), which was the 2000th article in the project. In October 2008, there were 100 FA’s in the project, which reached 200 on November 28, 2015, with Hurricane Fay (2014). By March 2016, every basin had at least 100 storm articles, multiple featured articles, and season articles of various quality.

This section lists content that have become featured, articles and lists, since the past newsletter in mid-April 2019.
From June 1–July 31, 2019, one featured article and one featured list was promoted:

• Hurricane Rosa (2018)
• Timeline of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
• Hurricane Alex (2016) is up at FAC

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 June 2019, the most popular article in the project was Cyclone Fani, viewed 139,696 times during the month. The generic cyclone was 2nd most popular, with 91,890 views. In 3rd place was the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season with 90,741 views, followed by Hurricane Katrina with 78,591 views. Included in the top 20 were the 2019 season articles for EPAC, WPAC, and NIO, TFA Cyclone Raja, 2018 and 19 Atlantic hurricane seasons, hurricanes Michael, Harvey, Maria, and Sandy. In July 2019, Hurricane Barry (2019) was viewed 85,793 times, with a peak on the day after the storm moved ashore.
• The most-viewed stub-class article in the project is List of Louisiana hurricanes (2000–present). The most-viewed start-class article is 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.

New articles since the last newsletter include:

• Effects of Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina
• Effects of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
• List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms (2000–present)
• List of Category 5 South Pacific severe tropical cyclones
• 1875 Indianola hurricane
• 1931 Pacific typhoon season
• 1944 Jamaica hurricane

New GA's include:

• 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane
• 1994 Bangladesh cyclone
• 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
• Cyclone Nora

WikiProject To-Do

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.

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.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter

• 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

• 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!

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.

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.

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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

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

• 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!

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.

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 July 1–August 31, 2020. This edition's editors and authors are (alphabetically) Chicdat, Destroyeraa, Hurricanehink, Jason Rees, KN2731, Typhoon2013, & Weatherman27.

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

• As we rapidly approach the 15th anniversary of the project in October, it has been proposed that the Climate, Tropical cyclone, Severe Weather, and Non-tropical storms (defunct) wikiprojects get merged into a single project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather. This brand new project would remove the overlap that exists between the projects. It provide us with a better opportunity to develop articles such as List of named storms A, B, C etc; Tornadoes in Fiji/New Zealand/Hawaii/etc; Floods in 2018, 2019, 2020, etc; Floods in Bangladesh/United States/Egypt, etc; Weather of 1997, 1998, 2020, etc; Weather in Tokelau/South Africa/France, etc; Hurricanes in the United States, Hurricanes in Mexico, Typhoons in China, etc. The discussion continues on WP:Meteorology. Any feedback would be appreciated.
• There are now more than 1,000 distinct good articles in the project, as of June, when Tropical Storm Sanba (2018) passed its GAR. That doesn't include the articles rated A-class that also passed GA status. There are now 1,299 good or featured articles, which 47.1% of all articles in the project. 80 net more good articles are needed for half of the project to be good or featured.
• There are more than 500 articles in the Western Pacific, as of July, when Yellow Evan (talk · contribs) created Tropical Storm Ofelia (1993) and Tropical Storm Percy (1993). The WPAC is the second basin to reach that milestone, after the Atlantic, which crossed that threshold in 2008. In fact, the WPAC is growing at a rate of 33 articles per year (since 2017), while the Atlantic is only growing at a rate of 13.6 articles per year (also since 2017). At that rate, the WPAC would surpass the Atlantic in number of articles in 15 years, when both basins would have about 1,000 articles. The EPAC would only have about 450 articles by that point. At the current rate, the entire WPTC would have 4,632 articles. For reference, there are 2727 articles in the WPTC at the moment, 2,185 of which are a storm/season/timeline article.
• The intensity lists by basin are progressing. List of Category 1 Atlantic hurricanes is still under construction, and could use help adding storms from 1936 to 2014. The List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms could use help adding storms from 1949 to 1989. The List of typhoons is going to take some time, as the current plan is to list every recorded typhoon, and not separate it (like the other basins) by category. This is because JMA is the RSMC for the WPAC, and they don't publicly use super/violent typhoon. Most intensity lists are finished for the North Indian Ocean, excepting the proposed List of depressions and deep depressions within the North Indian Ocean. Australia is almost done, only needing List of Australian region tropical lows, and SPAC is done all the way down to List of South Pacific tropical disturbances and tropical depressions. SWIO has only lists for very intense and intense tropical cyclones, so it could use more help.
• There is a discussion to merge the nearly 600 disambiguation/set index article into naming lists by letter, such as List of named storms (I), instead of Tropical Storm Ingrid. This would make sure that the pages are centralized, which would make updating and navigation easier.

New articles since the last newsletter include:

• 1900s Australian region cyclone seasons
• 1910s Australian region cyclone seasons
• 1920s Australian region cyclone seasons
• 1930s Australian region cyclone seasons
• 1940s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1950s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1965 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1966 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1967 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1968 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1969 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1974 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• Cyclone Owen
• Hurricane Dolores (2015)
• List of South-West Indian Ocean cyclones before 1900
• Tropical cyclones in 2005
• Tropical cyclones in 2007
• Tropical cyclones in 2013
• Tropical Storm Lekima (2007)
• Typhoon Cora (1966)
• Typhoon Della (1968)
• Typhoon Kathleen (1947)
• Typhoon Kai-tak (2000)
• Typhoon Kit (1966)
• Typhoon Marie (1954)
• Typhoon Mindulle (2004)
• Typhoon Olga (1976)
• Typhoon Ruby (1964)
• Typhoon Wanda (1956)
• Typhoon Yancy (1990)

New GA's include:

• Tropical Storm Nanmadol (2017)

From July 1 to present, two featured articles were promoted:

• Hurricane Willa
• Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian

From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from July 1–August 31, 2020 in chronological order.

Today's Featured Article/List

• August 21 - Tropical Storm Ileana (2018)

There is currently one featured article candidate:

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Storm Vicente (2018)/archive2

WikiProject To-Do

Member of the month (edition) – ChessEric

ChessEric first joined Wikipedia in April of this year, and has quickly become a prolific weather editor. In addition to his work on tornado and severe weather articles, ChessEric helped write the bulk of the Hurricane Laura article (the storm of the month), in addition to making sure the article stayed free of vandalism, with 224 edits to the article as of this newsletter. ChessEric was one of 190 editors who worked on the Laura article. We thank ChessEric for his edits, and hope we can build on more collaborations in the future between the severe and the tropical cyclone Wikiprojects.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter

• SMB99thx (talk · contribs)
• Buttons0603 (talk · contribs)
• Robloxsupersuperhappyface (talk · contribs)
• ChessEric (talk · contribs)
• Allen2 (talk · contribs)
• Mazum24 (talk · contribs)
• Modokai (talk · contribs)
• CodingCyclone (talk · contribs)
• Gumballs678 (talk · contribs)
• Janm 7 (talk · contribs)
• I like hurricanes (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!

WPTC and WP:ITN, by Destroyeraa

A few weeks ago, I created an article, Hurricane Isaias, as it threatened much of the East Coast. I've created several articles already, but Isaias is one that stood out to me. First of all, it affected me, my town and my state of New Jersey, along with millions of other people. Two months ago, I learned about Wikipedia's In The News section of the main page, which documents recent events that are in the news. I nominated Isaias' article on August 1 here, and the discussion was closed quickly after Isaias had weakened significantly after impacting the Bahamas. As Isaias made landfall in the Carolinas, spawned 36+ tornadoes and killed 18 people, I re-nominated Isaias [1], got rejected again, and I learned a few lessons that I want to share to other editors:

When posting

• If you post something that isn't in the news or isn't notable at all, then it would be quickly closed without much discussion.
• Don't feel upset when someone opposes your nomination. It is almost guaranteed that someone will oppose your nomination.
• Keep improving the article. An article that is a stub won't likely be posted.
• When posting about a person, make sure the article complies with BLP policies, and is adequately referenced and well-written.

I also learned a few lessons about which tropical cyclones to post. In July, someone nominated Hurricane Hanna (2020) here, and it was also rejected because it didn't meet the notability requirements. Also, keep in mind that damage estimates and death reports often come out several days after the storm, which makes passing the nomination for a storm like Isaias, a storm that caused $4.2 billion and 18 deaths, somewhat hard.

My opinions on when to nominate an article (this list mainly refers to tropical cyclone articles)

• The storm should affect more than two countries. However, if the storm causes a lot of death and destruction in one country (such as Tropical Storm Imelda), see the requirements below
• The storm should cause more than $1 billion in damage. However, if the storm causes less destruction and less death, see the requirements below
• The storm should cause at least 10 or 20 deaths. Most ITN nominations about a disaster that have less than 10 deaths are usually rejected/closed.
• The storm should break at least 1 notable record (such as the deadliest storm to hit a country in 20 years, or something like that).

There is currently a discussion on the WPTC project page about this topic.

New user perspective on WPTC, By Weatherman27

Around six months ago, I joined Wikipedia after seeing many articles on tropical cyclones and their seasons. Being someone who has studied (and been through) multiple storms, I realized I could help make a difference, bring more attention to tropical cyclones and that Wikipedia was the perfect place to do that. Soon after, I came across the WikiProject Tropical cyclones page, and after seeing what they did, I decided to sign my name and join the project. I really enjoyed how they gave to-do lists of tropical cyclone pages that needed work among other things. One of the great things about this WikiProject is the warm welcome I received when I joined and I got to know some of the more veteran editors, and they really helped me get around on Wikipedia, such as helpful tips and great advice to make better edits. As I have become comfortable editing and helping other users, some things came to mind that I thought other new users should know when they join the WPTC:

• If you are new and have questions, don't be afraid to ask someone. There are plenty of helpful editors who know what they are doing, and who would be happy to give some great tips to get you used to editing weather articles on Wikipedia.
• Don't be afraid to start editing. You can edit tropical cyclone pages as much as you want, just make sure you use the proper sources and citations.
• Be kind. It is simply the Golden Rule, if you use it, others will too.
• If you see something wrong, do something! If you see vandalism or any strange edits, make sure you revert them.
• Help improve. There are plenty of tropical cyclone articles that need improvement and we need all the help we can get.
• If you have any ideas but you're not sure if they would be right for an article, you can discuss them with fellow users on a talk page.

I am sure I missed some tips, but these are important for getting started with WPTC. This WikiProject has some amazing people and articles and I am sure new users (and veteran users as well) enjoy this as much as I do and will continue to make great edits as well as informative articles.

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 August

Hurricane Laura tied the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the U.S state of Louisiana, as measured by maximum sustained winds. It moved across the Lesser and Greater Antilles as a tropical storm, killing 35 people on the island of Hispaniola due to flooding and landslides. Laura rapidly intensified once it reached the Gulf of Mexico, becoming a powerful Category 4 hurricane on August 26 with peak winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) early the next day. On August 27, Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana at peak intensity, producing wind gusts of 137 mph (220 km/h) in Lake Charles, and leaving at least $8 billion in damage. Overall, Laura killed more than 57 people, with more missing.

• Atlantic - the basin continued its record pace of activity. In the middle of the month, Tropical Storm Josephine formed east of the Lesser Antilles and eventually dissipated north of the islands. Tropical Storm Kyle originated off the east coast of the United States and moved to the east-northeast. Hurricane Marco formed in the Caribbean and briefly strengthened into a minimal hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. For a few days, the NHC forecast back-to-back hurricane landfalls from Marco and Laura within two days of each other; however, Marco dissipated near the Louisiana coastline without causing significant damage. Toward the end of the month, Tropical Depression Fifteen formed off the southeastern United States.
• Eastern Pacific - Hurricane Elida was the season's second hurricane, which brushed the Baja California Peninsula while moving northwestward. In the middle of the month, a series of storms formed, including a long-lived tropical depression, Tropical Storm Fausto, and Hurricane Genevieve, the last of which passed near the Baja California Peninsula. Genevieve killed two people, and its moisture spread into the southwestern United States. Toward the end of the month, Tropical Storm Hernan caused flooding and landslides in southwestern Mexico, and Iselle formed around the same time farther west over open water.
• Western Pacific - after a quiet July, the basin became more active in August. Tropical Storm Jangmi brushed western Japan and South Korea with heavy rainfall. A short-lived tropical depression existed south of Japan. Severe Tropical Storm Mekkhala formed in the South China Sea and struck Guangdong, resulting in heavy rainfall and $154 million in damage. About a week later, Severe Tropical Storm Higos struck the same region, leaving eight deaths. Typhoon Bavi formed east of Taiwan and moved northward through the Yellow Sea, eventually striking North Korea, where it caused one fatality. Toward the end of the month, Typhoon Maysak formed east of Taiwan and followed a similar path to Bavi, becoming a powerful typhoon as it moved through the Ryukyu Islands. Another tropical depression formed between the Marianas Islands and Japan on August 31.

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.

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 September 1–October 5, 2020, which is the 15th anniversary of the WPTC. This edition's editors and authors are ChessEric, Chicdat, Destroyeraa, Hurricanehink, and our member of the month, SMB99thx!

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

• As we rapidly approach the 15th anniversary of the project in October, it has been proposed that the Climate, Tropical cyclone, Severe Weather, and Non-tropical storms (defunct) wikiprojects get merged into a single project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather. This brand new project would remove the overlap that exists between the projects. It provide us with a better opportunity to develop articles such as List of named storms A, B, C etc; Tornadoes in Fiji/New Zealand/Hawaii/etc; Floods in 2018, 2019, 2020, etc; Floods in Bangladesh/United States/Egypt, etc; Weather of 1997, 1998, 2020, etc; Weather in Tokelau/South Africa/France, etc; Hurricanes in the United States, Hurricanes in Mexico, Typhoons in China, etc. The discussion continues on WP:Meteorology. Any feedback would be appreciated.
• A series of goals, proposed for the project, has been extended to January 2021 for Wikipedia's 20th anniversary. Goals include tropical cyclone effects for every location around the world, merging the hundreds of disambiguation articles into lists by letter, and featured topics for every list of retired names. Some of these goals might take another 20 years to complete, but some are doable with some sustained effort.
• Hurricane Noah 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.

New articles since the last newsletter include:

• 1850s Pacific typhoon seasons
• 1860s Pacific typhoon seasons
• 1870s Pacific typhoon seasons
• 1880s Pacific typhoon seasons
• 1890s Pacific typhoon seasons
• 1941 Pacific typhoon season
• 1942 Pacific typhoon season
• 1943 Pacific typhoon season
• 1944 Pacific typhoon season
• 1950s South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• Cyclone Zorbas
• Hurricanes in Costa Rica
• Hurricanes in the Bahama Archipelago
• List of named storms (A)
• List of named storms (L)
• List of named storms (T)
• List of Cayman Islands hurricanes
• List of Hispaniola hurricanes
• List of Jamaica hurricanes
• Tropical cyclones in 2006
• Tropical cyclones in 2009
• Tropical cyclones in 2011
• Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa
• Tropical Storm Harriet (1962)
• Tropical Storm Sam (1999)
• Tropical Storm Utor (2001)
• Typhoon Alice (1958)
• Typhoon Chebi (2001)
• Typhoon Damrey (2005)
• Typhoon Iris (1959)
• Typhoon Kaemi (2006)
• Typhoon Koppu (2009)
• Typhoon Krosa (2007)
• Typhoon Lingling (2001)
• Typhoon Louise (1955)
• Typhoon Lupit (2009)
• Typhoon Ma-on (2004)
• Typhoon Marie (1954)
• Typhoon Marge (1951)
• Typhoon Meari (2004)
• Typhoon Olga (1999)
• Typhoon Ruth (1951)
• Typhoon Songda (2011)
• Typhoon Tess (1953)
• Typhoon Vanessa (1984)
• Typhoon Vicki (1998)
• Typhoon Xangsane (2000)

New GA's include:

• 2018 Pacific hurricane season
• Hurricane Dolores (2015)
• Typhoon Percy (1990)
• Tropical Storm Ampil

WikiProject To-Do

Member of the month (edition) – SMB99thx

SMB99thx first joined Wikipedia in 2013, but didn't officially join the WPTC until August 2020. Since then, they have been a prolific contributor, helping with less visible pages such as project talk pages, or splitting older season articles in the North Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. They are a such a tireless contributor and kind user, who appreciates others' contributions while being humble about their own. It was SMB99thx who gave barnstars along with kind and encouraging messages to countless other WPTC contributors and Wikipedians. SMB99thx also worked on several lists, including area affects lists, various drafts, and List of named storms (T). We'll take that T and say TY to SMB99thx for all of their contributions, and wish them luck at college.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter

• Hurricanehuron33 (talk · contribs)
• Hurricane21 (talk · contribs)
• TornadoLGS (talk · contribs)
• Iseriously (talk · contribs)
• Jupiter50 (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!

From September 1 to October 5, one featured article was promoted:

• Tropical Storm Vicente (2018)

From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from September 1–October 5, 2020 in chronological order.

Today's Featured Article/List

• September 10 - Hurricane Gordon (2006)

There is currently one featured article candidate:

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Hector (2018)/archive1

How WikiProject Tropical cyclones should move forward by SMB99thx

As we have seen in the month of August and September, there is a surge of new articles. Most of these new articles are season/decade articles and Pacific typhoon articles, and most of these articles are assessed by me as either Start-class or Stub-class. These articles I believe would have been rejected by WikiProject Tropical cyclones in the earlier years (especially 2008-2012) - and these reflected the changes in WikiProject Tropical cyclones after I joined in July 2020.

In order to counteract that surge of Start-class and Stub-class articles in recent months, I have been closely working on the Article requests page (used to be a primary contributor of the surge that happened in August and September), trying to make this recently-extended WikiProject 15th anniversary as some serious effort as well as revamping WikiProject To-Do (and completing some, but not all tasks) - and the results of my work on these three projects led into the explosive growth of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones draftspace (I tried to prevent this by publishing the half-finished drafts into mainspace (which is primarily composed of C-class with some speck of Start-class articles coming out of it, and these are the ones that aren't as obviously unfinished like Draft:Effects of Hurricane Dorian on the Mainland United States), and made several drafts on articles that are not considered notable like Draft:Hurricane Barbara (2019) into redirects or deleted, but there is less kinds of these drafts now) as well as discovery of several drafts that isn't done by this point or are not listed as part of WikiProject Tropical cyclones. These drafts are later linked to the Article requests page. I don't my work is done yet, and in order to consider that effectively done, I need to get these drafts done and submitted as C-class or higher.

However, there is a personal problem I had to face in order to getting this work done when I'm still new to WikiProject Tropical cyclones. Article creation from drafts are not my strength. I create articles mostly from splits, not from drafts. As such, I consider article creation from drafts to be personally tedious work. As our 15th anniversary gets near, it appears that things are changing. As the draft space exploded, it appears fellow WikiProject Tropical cyclones are helping me out in getting these drafts complete, especially Destroyeraa (helping me out in deciding which drafts can pass the cut), ChessEric (working on Draft:Tropical Storm Noul (2020)), Robloxsupersuperhappyface (for developing current events articles, alongside ChessEric), I like hurricanes (Tropical cyclone lists), Chicdat (for the work on Tropical cyclones in 2002 and will probably work on others), Janm 7 (for working on Tropical cyclones in 2011 and 2003), and Iseriously (for useful season summaries, and this isn't a WPTC member!). I also began to frequently give out barnstars to these hard-working people like Jason Rees and Hurricanehink.

These events led me to believe that, if this WikiProject has to move forward then in my opinion this WikiProject should:

• Take things in Article requests, WikiProject To-Do, WikiProject Tropical cyclones draftspace and WPTC 15th anniversary push (now extended into January 15th, 2021) seriously. I have seen some serious neglect from this area of the WikiProject and i believe this really held back the growth of this WikiProject. In my opinion, this WikiProject could have been easily have 2500 articles, or even 3000 articles by now if that area of WikiProject had been taken seriously. Even possibly, this WikiProject could have a lot more quality articles than it is today!
• Frequently collaborate with each other. Don't bite the newcomers, but help them! They will help you.
• If someone wants to take a break, e.g. Yellow Evan, let them be. Don't hurt their feelings! (i.e. moving their userspace drafts into mainspace) If you are hurting their feelings, then this could discourage future collaborations that could advance this WikiProject.

Thanks for reading this opinion piece! And happy 15th anniversary, WikiProject Tropical cyclones!

OPINION PIECE - by ChessEric

Accuracy has always been one of my biggest sticking points when it comes to editing on Wikipedia. When I came here back in April, my first edit was a revert of misinformation on the 2020 Easter tornado outbreak article. Of course, I understand that as a relatively new user, I still have a lot to learn and I don't profess to know everything, even after I started several large projects that I will probably be working on for quite some time. My first tornado outbreak pages used only the Tornado History Projects which, while generally good for tornado tracks, provides no damage info and if weren't for editors like CapeVerdeWave and Halls4521, my "breakthrough" articles would be so incomplete. However, I've been able to research more and more and find ways to complete these articles and that has carried over into the tropical cyclone projects as well. My thing has always been is that If I can't find a source for it, then it's not true. I will continue to follow that motto and hope that others will do the same.

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 →

Comparison of 2005 and 2020

WikiProject Tropical cyclones was founded on October 5, 2005. By that time, Wikipedia had its small share of articles, including the four deadly hurricanes that hit the United States in 2004. The hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season featured a series of deadly and historic hurricanes, the first of which was Hurricane Dennis. This is how the article looked on 10/5/05. It might not look like much, considering how much larger storm articles tend to be today. However, Dennis quickly became a featured article by February 2006. Its quality showed a marked improvement from the 2004 hurricanes. For comparison, here is what Hurricane Charley looked like on 10/5/05, with barely any references, no preparations, no aftermath, and one sentence worth of impact for a location with $1 billion in damage.

The busy 2005 season featured Hurricane Katrina, and in the aftermath of the storm, dozens of articles related to the hurricane were created. Some still exist, such as Katrina refrigerator, Memorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina, and Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana Superdome. I don't know if those hyper-specific articles would be created today, and many of these old articles are still of low quality. On the other hand, one of the most notable changes since 2005 is the improvement in articles throughout Wikipedia, both new and old. Every Atlantic season from 1945 to 2019 is a good article, and all but 31 seasons since 1851 are a good article. More impressive is how much other basins around the world have improved. As of June 2006 (the oldest date for our assessment tables), the EPAC only had articles back to 1970, WPAC with yearly articles back to 1945 (with a rump article for everything beforehand - there are now decade articles going back to 1850), and the NIO only had one yearly season article (with five-yearly articles going back to 1980, and one rump article for everything beforehand), with only six storm articles. There are now yearly NIO articles going back to 1960. Also as of June 2006, all SHEM storms were put into yearly articles going back to 1995, with three five-yearly articles going back to 1980, and then one article for everything beforehand. The SHEM is now split into its three sub-basins (plus a distinct article for SATL storms), with yearly articles back to 1970. There are also now yearly articles for tropical cyclones back to 2009.

15 years might not feel like much, or for some of you it's an entire lifetime. Users should be reminded of eventualism, in work will improve over time, especially with sustained editor attention. There are now over 2,000 articles in the project, versus less than 500 15 years ago, or 1000 10 years ago, or 1500 13 years ago. The project's growth hasn't always been even, but it has trended toward inclusion, with hundreds of articles that are the best resources available anywhere on a given storm/season/topic. As Mother Nature throws us hyperactive seasons, it will be difficult, but not impossible, to keep up with the annual cycle of tropical cyclone activity, so the world can remain informed of these swirling furies.

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.

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 October 5–November 30, 2020. This edition's editors and authors are SMB99thx, Weatherman27, Chicdat, Hurricanehink, Cyclone Toby, Typhoon2013, and ChessEric.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

New articles since the last newsletter include:

• 1900s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1910s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1920s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1925 Pacific hurricane season
• 1926 Pacific hurricane season
• 1927 Pacific hurricane season
• 1928 Pacific hurricane season
• 1929 Pacific hurricane season
• 1930 Pacific hurricane season
• 1930s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1931 Pacific hurricane season
• 1932 Pacific hurricane season
• 1933 Pacific hurricane season
• 1934 Pacific hurricane season
• 1935 Pacific hurricane season
• 1936 Pacific hurricane season
• 1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane
• 1937 Pacific hurricane season
• 1938 Pacific hurricane season
• 1940 Pacific hurricane season
• 1941 Pacific hurricane season
• 1971 Odisha cyclone (reintroduced, this article survived the merge on the assessment table for years.)
• Cyclone Ava
• Cyclone Aivu
• Cyclone Titli
• Effects of the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane in Texas
• Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Carolinas
• Hurricane Chris (2018)
• Hurricanes in Nicaragua
• List of named storms (B)
• List of named storms (J)
• List of named storms (K)
• List of named storms (S)
• List of named storms (Q)
• List of named storms (U)
• List of named storms (V)
• List of named storms (W)
• List of named storms (X)
• List of named storms (Y)
• List of South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclones
• List of super typhoons
• List of very strong typhoons
• List of violent typhoons
• List of Western Pacific severe tropical storms
• November 1964 Vietnam floods
• Tropical cyclones in 2003
• Tropical cyclones in 2008
• Tropical Storm Brendan (1991)
• Tropical Storm Nakri (2014)
• Tropical Storm Usagi (2018)
• Typhoon Alice (1953)
• Typhoon Amy (1962)
• Typhoon Dot (1964)
• Typhoon Georgia (1959)
• Typhoon Ida (1945)
• Typhoon Joan (1959)
• Typhoon Khanun (2005)
• Typhoon Lingling (2019)
• Typhoon Marge (1973)
• Typhoon Opal (1962)
• Typhoon Sally (1964)
• Typhoon Soulik (2018)
• Typhoon Violet (1961)
• Typhoon Winnie (1964)

New GA's include:

• Hurricane Barry (2019)
• Tropical Storm Arthur (2020)
• Tropical Storm Bertha (2020)
• Tropical Storm Ewiniar (2018)
• Typhoon Jebi (2018)

From October 5 to November 30, two featured articles were promoted:

• Hurricane Hector (2018)
• Hurricane Walaka

From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from October 5–November 30, 2020 in chronological order.

Today's Featured Article/List

• October 12 - Hurricane Gonzalo
• November 1 - Typhoon Gay (1989)
• November 28 - Hurricane Lane (2018)

There is currently one featured article candidate:

• Meteorological history of Hurricane Michael

WikiProject To-Do

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 164 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 133 A-class articles, and 1,010 good articles. There are only 71 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 415 C-class articles, 788 start-class articles, and 182 stub-class articles, with 23 lists, and 9 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 →

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.

Member of the month (edition) – Robloxsupersuperhappyface

Robloxsupersuperhappyface joined Wikipedia in July of this year, and has become the most prolific tropical cyclone editor relating to current events, as well as playing an enormous role in creation of newly formed tropical cyclones that eventually became destructive in many regions they are affected in (Hurricane Sally to Gulf Coast of the United States, Typhoon Goni to the Philippines, and Hurricane Iota to Central America respectively - Also, both Goni and Iota are Storms of the Month!). Because of that reason, Robloxsupersuperhappyface's articles are the one of the most viewed tropical cyclone articles in this year - as well as helped us on inviting prospective tropical cyclone editors to this project as they edited Robloxsupersuperhappyface's articles, leading into why we have more than 100 members in this WikiProject leading to this issue. As the result of brilliant Robloxsupersuperhappyface's contributions, we want to give many, many thanks to Super for helping this WikiProject grow so much recently. Happy Thanksgiving!

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter - project membership is over 100 now!

• Funnycomixking (talk · contribs)
• JackGordean (talk · contribs) (Added to WPTC because of expressing interest directly)
• ARegularWisconsinite (talk · contribs)
• CyclonicStormYutu (talk · contribs)
• ARay10 (talk · contribs)
• Gex4pls (talk · contribs)
• Nioni1234 (talk · contribs)
• HurricaneTracker495 (talk · contribs)
• Jangmi20 (talk · contribs) (Added to WPTC because of userbox)
• Dannisom (talk · contribs) (Added to WPTC because of expressing interest directly)
• Qwerty325 (talk · contribs)
• Skarmory (talk · contribs)
• Moline1 (talk · contribs)
• HurricaneIcy (talk · contribs)
• Beraniladri19 (talk · contribs)
• Cristianpogi678 (talk · contribs)
• Miguel 04012010 (talk · contribs)
• Cyclonetracker (talk · contribs)
• Dam222 (talk · contribs) (Added to WPTC because of userbox)
• Hi 022828 (talk · contribs)
• Elijahandskip (talk · contribs) (WikiProject Current Events Coordinator!)
• TovarishhUlyanov (talk · contribs)
• Animem 1 (talk · contribs)
• Shift674 (talk · contribs)
• HurricaneGeek (talk · contribs)
• ThePelicanThing (talk · contribs)
• FinnTheHurricaneFanatic (talk · contribs)
• 8medalkid (talk · contribs)
• Vida0007 (talk · contribs)
• TFESS (talk · contribs)
• KILLERXR (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!

Let's talk about that - An opinion piece by Weatherman27

Before I start, I would like to link everyone to a new essay regarding Force Thirteen. Here it is: WP:F13. I recommend users (old and new) to read this to understand why we don't use Force Thirteen as a source, and why it isn't a reliable source. If you want to see what good reliable sources are, read this: WP:WPTC/AS Now, I will get to the main point of this opinion piece.

Recently, I have gotten more involved in talk pages, and sharing my ideas and/or my opinions on different issues or ideas that have come up, primarily on 2020 Atlantic hurricane season's talk page. As I have discussed these thoughts and ideas with other editors, I have noticed and experienced some things such as being personally attacked, which has led me to want to reiterated some key points here. Despite the fact that they are mentioned commonly at the top of talk pages, I want to bring these up as it is important to have a good base where people can properly chat and discuss topics in peace.

1. Treat others with respect This one can't be stressed enough. Especially on talk pages, it is a place where you and your peers communicate issues, opinions, or ideas to each-other. This means discussing topics in a kind and adult manner. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing in what somebody may say, but that does not mean that you have the right to put them down for not having similar views. It is simply the Golden Rule.

2. Assume Good faith Along with my first point, I feel this one needs to be brought up. People have different opinions, and that is all right, but just because you may not agree with it or what they say, does not mean that it was not out of good faith. They were most likely voicing what they think on the subject, and that is alright. This also goes for edits. Unless it is pretty obvious that a user as vandalized something, it is always good to assume good faith, as other people might not know the rules as well as a more experienced editor.

3. Avoid Personal attacks This is a very important subject that needs to be remembered not just on talk pages, but on all other parts of Wikipedia as well. On talk pages, discussions can get pretty tense and heated, and I admit that I have gotten into a few of these arguments as well. Despite this, it is never okay to attack someone. As a user who has gotten personally attacked before, I can definitely say that it does not feel good, and usually the person who made the attacked will get warned or blocked, so please be kind and accept what other people have to say, because you will get nowhere by being rude.

4. Come to a consensus (preferably a clear one) On talk pages, whenever there is a discussion regarding something important like the merging of an article, people need to decide what the outcome of something important on a talk page. For example, if there is say, a merge discussion for an article on a tropical cyclone, many people will give their input. Usually, different people will have different views on whether to merge or keep the article. Sometimes, the editor will close the discussion early, but this is usually for unrelated reasons, though it sometimes may be because the editor had a change of mind. Now, if there is support for say a merge of the article, then that will be the consensus and the discussion will be closed and the article merged. This can also happen on the opposite side, if an article is to be kept, the discussion will be closed and article kept. Simply put, it is important to discuss and come to a clear decision if there is a consensus involved, to avoid difficulty with the article or page in the future.

These are just a few examples of things that editors of the WPTC need to remember when using talk page discussions. There are plenty of other things not mentioned here that are just as important when it comes to using talk pages. I made this simply to help remind editors the key points when using the discussions, and I hope these were helpful to new users as well as veterans. We need to really get better at staying calm and keeping civil. I have noticed lots of hostility and arguing lately, as well as edit warring and disputes. We need to work this out. We are supposed to work together as WPTC editors, so please fix it. It is sad seeing so many editors getting reported or having to get blocked from this. Once again, keep discussions civil and have a good day. Signing off,

🌀Weatherman27🏈

My experiences as a WikiProject Tropical cyclones member by SMB99thx

Hello again, people of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones! In here, I want to tell how my experiences with WikiProject Tropical Cyclones changed my views on WikiProjects, helped me out of trouble and to be able to regain the trust of many people in Wikipedia.

When I joined WikiProject Tropical cyclones, it was the second WikiProject I have ever joined. The first WikiProject I have ever joined is WikiProject COVID-19, and the reason why I joined that project is to gain trust of people when I contributed to COVID-19 articles and as well as my fight against an IP editor which turned out to be the LTA named Bedriczwaleta (and has been active much more longer than I thought, since February of last year (!!!!)). I have the same thought process (and combined with my plans of editing old season articles, which is not done yet) when I first joined this WikiProject, but joining the WikiProject Tropical cyclones turned out to be something different. It led me to know what are the purposes of WikiProjects are and in turn led me to join many other WikiProjects since.

As such, what made me change my views on WikiProjects during my time as a WikiProject Tropical Cyclones?

First of all, I have seen that WikiProject Tropical cyclones members always actively work together to advance project goals, actively participating in discussions and give much-needed advice on new WikiProject Tropical cyclones members (including me). Second, WPTC really cares about our articles (and the assessments) as part of their project goals. 2018 FT project and Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (Four Award!) is a prime example of this. Third, we are actively welcoming the new members of this WikiProject and giving these members opportunity to succeed with us by i.e. giving out WikiLove (barnstars). Fourth, we, like WP COVID-19, actively fight against vandals and other LTAs e.g. Sidow........., UnderArmorKid, and Iphonehurricane95.

These kinds of activity led me to change my belief on what WikiProjects truly are. You could see this kind of activity on other good WikiProjects like WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors, which I just joined recently on 26 October 2020 as of this newsletter and WikiProject Articles of Creation, which I have interest on joining but I might not be able to.

Now, why WikiProject Tropical cyclones brought me out of trouble (and Chicdat, for that matter)?

WikiProject Tropical cyclones is generally a content-creating WikiProject. We really care about improving tropical cyclone coverage on Wikipedia. Members of this WikiProject generally encouraged to communicate and discuss (in Wikipedia, in Discord, or in IRC channel), and this is what helped me and Chicdat out from trouble since our discussions from what I have seen is not always administrative.

Before I joined WikiProject Tropical cyclones (and when I was still new to WikiProject Tropical cyclones), I have been putting myself on trouble numerous times. I was an ANI regular, and as an ANI regular I detailed about my struggle to deal with the LTA Bedriczwaleta and I'm was also putting up IBAN proposals of User:Jadebenn and User:Moamem as well as User:U1Quattro and User:1292simon. While I have managed to get my proposal succeeded and finally got Bedriczwaleta back on track for a while (what I thought), in August 20 (as I was about to finalize my decision to enter my college I'm currently in right now) I got myself into serious trouble against IP range 185.66.252.0/23 (which is apparently good at programming - I'm not). I tried to get them blocked for PA (calling me a thief who has a black soul), but this is where when I realized that I had to attribute things I copied within Wikipedia and I had to apologize to the user. Since then, I did my best to attribute everything I had copied articles from (Example) and I also realized that ANI is not for me (as I do not want to get into troubles by just being there), which led me to quitting ANI until November of this year when I decided to involve myself on Miggy72 dispute (now banned for sockpuppetry - Miggy72 could have been invited to WPTC if he stopped on insisting to create non-notable topics).

After that incident with the IP range 185.66.252.0/23, I have stated that I do not want to get myself into trouble as a presence in ANI. As such, I decided to focus on what I want to do, which is to continue my project of splitting season articles of the yesteryear and began to increasingly involve myself within the project - to look for help and giving the best help that I can do for this WikiProject. The activity from that September led me to become Member of the Month in the previous edition of this newsletter. It was a comeback that I needed, and I want to thank WikiProject Tropical cyclones (especially Hurricanehink) for getting me on this situation. Without their help, I'm not sure if I could be here on this day.

Now, for the final question – why this WikiProject helped me (and Chicdat) regain trust of many people in Wikipedia?

As I stated before, this WikiProject encourages discussion within other members of this WikiProject, which in turn encourages close involvement in all sides of this WikiProject. Because of this, some people are actually helping us learning policies in Wikipedia as the time goes on, rather than falling in into blocks. As such, with time, I have seen that some admins are open for Chicdat to become a rollbacker, while I got hold on several automated gadgets that was more useful. It appears that these tools are the reason why these people are one of the more trusted people in Wikipedia, which in turn helped me a lot at gaining trust. Someday in the future, I'm looking to become an admin by myself. But that's for the another day. For now, what I'm currently doing now is to work at my craft to eventually prepare for the day when I will seek for adminship in the years ahead.

In conclusion, you can see that this WikiProject helped me to regain my standing, alongside Chicdat, Nioni1234, Cristianpogi678, HurricaneTracker495 - and of course - CyclonicallyDeranged! If not for this WikiProject, I don't think they are will be here. Chicdat could have been CIR-blocked like Prahlad balaji and PythonSwarm, Nioni1234 and Cristianpogi678 ending up like Binbin0111 and Miggy72, HurricaneTracker495 would have a trouble establishing himself (or probably will never establish theirselves and stay as an IP) and CyclonicallyDeranged fully driven out from Wikipedia.

By the way, to me, both Binbin0111 and Miggy72 are young, but unfortunately they took on the wrong path (Binbin0111 was one of the earliest Force Thirteen insinuators - Binbin0111 is probably the impetus of Force Thirteen policy in this project (as it was made back in 2017), while Miggy72... we know what happened). I feel bad for them, especially Binbin0111. Had Binbin0111 is willing to learn and took steps forward to become productive young editor like Yellow Evan and two other resilient young editors I have mentioned did, Binbin0111 could have been one of the most valuable editors in this project, especially in matters related to Western Pacific basin, and in extension, Vietnam.

That's it. That's what I have to say. College is increasingly getting into my feelings right now, but I will do my best as I can coming into December. Sorry if I have a bad English. Thanks for reading this opinion piece!

Greetings from Indonesia,

SMB99thx my edits!

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 December 1, 2020–January 15, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are MarioJump83, Hurricanehink, Destroyeraa, Chicdat, Typhoon2013, CycloneFootball71, Hurricane Noah, LightandDark2000, Cyclone Toby (editor's pick for member of the month), Skarmory, Shift674, and HurricaneCovid. 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

New articles since the last newsletter include:

• Cyclone Meena
• Hurricane Heather
• Hurricanes in Belize
• Hurricanes in Central America
• Hurricanes in Honduras
• List of depressions and deep depressions in the North Indian Ocean
• List of Georgia hurricanes
• List of named storms (C)
• List of named storms (D)
• List of named storms (P)
• List of named storms (R)
• List of strong typhoons
• List of typhoons
• List of Western Pacific tropical storms
• Tropical cyclones in 1977
• Tropical cyclones in 2002
• Tropical Storm Hernan (2020)
• Tropical Storm Karen (2019)
• Tropical Storm Merbok (2017)
• Tropical Storm Wipha (2019)
• Tropical Storm Yagi (2018)
• Typhoon Cimaron (2018)
• Typhoon Louise–Marge

New GA's include:

• Cyclone Ava
• Hurricane Beryl (last GA of 2020)
• Hurricane Chris (2018)
• Tropical Storm Karen (2019)
• Typhoon Alice (1953) (first GA of 2021!)
• Typhoon Louise–Marge

Typhoon Ike was also promoted from GA to A-class article.

Member of the month (Editor's Pick) – Cyclone Toby

Cyclone Toby first joined Wikipedia in July 2020 as I like hurricanes. Since then, they have become one of the most active editors, taking the initiative of fulfilling article requests, as well as helping us work on finishing many drafts we have. These articles include Hurricanes in Hispaniola, Hurricanes in Nicaragua, and Hurricanes in Honduras, as well as helping out getting Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Carolinas (a long-standing draft that took many efforts to get it published to mainspace) nominated for GA, as of this writing. There are more articles Cyclone Toby is currently working on other than the ones previously listed. Also, Cyclone Toby is one of the kinder members of WPTC, actively welcoming many new editors that edited articles under WikiProject Tropical cyclones banner, as well as inviting some of these editors to the project, in which their influence ended up bringing more editors to WPTC without any invitation. We thank Cyclone Toby for work they have done in the past year, which was a horrible year for many of us, but Toby is one of many bright spots that helped us get through that year. As we enter the new year, we encourage Cyclone Toby to keep up their work and eventually complete these drafts, which will ultimately lead to the clearing of the backlog of drafts within the project.

From December 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021, there were no articles promoted to Featured Article status.
From the Main Page: Documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from December 1, 2020–January 15, 2021 in chronological order.

Today's Featured Article/List

• December 8, 2020 - Cyclone Chapala
• January 12, 2021 - Hurricane Alex (2016)

Did you know...?

• December 9, 2020 - Typhoon Alice (1953)
• December 13, 2020 - Cyclone Gati
• December 17, 2020 - Tropical Storm Merbok (2017)

There is currently one featured article candidate:

• Typhoon Jebi (2018)

2018 Featured Topic Update

Featured Articles promoted (May 22–December 31)

• Hurricane Lane (2018)
• Hurricane Willa
• Tropical Storm Vicente (2018)
• Hurricane Hector (2018)
• Hurricane Walaka

Good Articles promoted (May 25–December 31)

• Tropical Storm Bolaven (2018)
• Tropical Storm Sanba (2018)
• 2018 Pacific hurricane season
• Tropical Storm Ampil
• Tropical Storm Ewiniar (2018)
• Hurricane Chris (2018)
• Cyclone Ava
• Hurricane Beryl

Current Candidates

• Typhoon Jebi (2018)

New Articles (Only C and below)

• Cyclone Owen
• Cyclone Titli
• Cyclone Zorbas
• Tropical Depression Josie
• Tropical Depression Usman
• Tropical Storm Toraji (2018)
• Tropical Storm Usagi (2018)
• Tropical Storm Yagi (2018)
• Typhoon Cimaron (2018)

Next Steps

For the next steps of the 2018 Global FT project, we're likely to finish the 2018 Pacific hurricane season FT by the end of the year. Hurricane Bud (2018) is likely to become a Featured Article (FA) around the first anniversary of the 2018 Global FT task force, which will be in June 2021, while Hurricane Olivia (2018) is the most likely FAC next in line. Sooner or later (which might happen before Bud or Olivia is FA), Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season will be completed, and subsequently nominated for Good Article (GA) status. After that, 2018 Pacific hurricane season might be nominated for Featured Topic (FT) before the timeline or the article is nominated for FA, based on the likely order of completion provided by Hurricane Noah on December 22, 2020 with some changes due to priorities after that time.

We also began to focus more attention on the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season FT, as evidenced by Hurricane Beryl and Hurricane Chris (2018) becoming GAs by the time of this issue of The Hurricane Herald, as well as the merger of Meteorological history of Hurricane Michael into Hurricane Michael (despite the merge moratorium which was enacted in November 23, 2020 - this was made possible by getting the consensus for an exception to the merge moratorium), which boosted the prospects of Hurricane Michael becoming a GA by the time of the next issue or the following one. Our next step in the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season FT, as it is currently planned right now, is to have Hurricane Leslie (2018) promoted to a GA.

In the Western Pacific, the creation of Effects of Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines is still being planned out, while Cimaron, Trami, Kong-rey, and Son-Tinh are in line to be nominated for GA later on - and Jebi may well become a FA by the next issue. In the North Indian Ocean, Cyclone Titli was recently created and likely to be expanded later on. In the Southern Hemisphere, Cyclone Owen is currently being worked on to become a GA someday, while Berguitta, Josie, Keni, and Liua are still under construction. For the Mediterranean, Cyclone Zorbas will be expanded upon and nominated for GA, some time after this issue.

We are recruiting

If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the FAC review process for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to Hurricane Noah or any other member of the 2018 FT task force.

WikiProject To-Do

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 164 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 133 A-class articles, and 1,010 good articles. There are only 71 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 415 C-class articles, 788 start-class articles, and 182 stub-class articles, with 23 lists, and 9 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better. Typhoon Warren was the 1,000th GA in the project.

About the assessment scale →

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.

Member of the month (edition) – Jason Rees

Jason first created an account on Wikipedia in August 2006, after tracking Hurricane Katrina and countless other storms in 2005. Since then, he has written four featured articles and 21 good articles. Recently, Jason has done great work expanding and cleaning up Cyclone Yasa, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the South Pacific basin. He is also an active content creator, currently writing Cyclone Meena. Overall, Jason has done an outstanding job expanding the scope of tropical cyclone articles in the Southern Hemisphere basins, such as the South Pacific, where there is, sadly, a shortage of active users. We want to thank him for his wonderful work, and thus award him the Member of the Month award for this edition.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter

• Doge1941 (talk · contribs)
• Tropical Storm Angela (talk · contribs)
• HurricaneKappa (talk · contribs)
• KingLucarius (talk · contribs)
• Hurricanestudier123 (talk · contribs)
• 2 0 D a r t h S a n d M a n 0 5 (talk · contribs)
• iBlazeCat (talk · contribs)
• FuturPDUCTIONS (talk · contribs)
• SputtyTheSputnik (talk · contribs)
• AveryTheComrade (talk · contribs) (added because of userbox)
• Poxy4 (talk · contribs)
• SovietCyclone (talk · contribs)
• Gummycow (talk · contribs)
• Chong Yi Lam (talk · contribs)
• German2k2k (talk · contribs)
• Wikihelp7586 (talk · contribs)
• StopBoi (talk · contribs)
• Final-Fantasy-HH (talk · contribs)
• TheActiniumSpoon (talk · contribs)
• Ididntknowausername (talk · contribs)
• Dalandaniel (talk · contribs) (sock of Ajhenson21)
• BrownieKing (talk · contribs)
• Bunny04032010 (talk · contribs)
• Purplemountainman (talk · contribs) (first new member of WPTC in 2021!)
• 2003 LN6 (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!

A year in review: WPTC's accomplishments in 2020

2020 has been a hard year for many of us. Depending on where you live, the COVID-19 pandemic began as early as January. In most of the world, the pandemic ramped up in February and March, reaching its first peak in April–May. A second wave struck in June–August, which saw cases dramatically increase across the globe, while the third and largest wave began around October. However, during this pandemic, through lock-downs and online learning, as well as the the insanely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, our WikiProject saw a huge influx of new editors showing interest in editing tropical cyclone articles. Here, we will take a look at the stats:

New WPTC members since January 1, 2020: AC5230, CycloneFootball71 (Previously Weatherman27), Chicdat, Hurricaneboy23, Chlod, Destroyeraa, NOOBSKINSPAMMER, HurricaneMichael2018, JoeMT615, MarioJump83, Buttons0603, Robloxsupersuperhappyface, ChessEric, Allen2, Mazum24, Modokai, CodingCyclone, Gumballs678, Janm 7, Cyclone Toby, Hurricanehuron33, Hurricane21, TornadoLGS, Iseriously, Jupiter50, ARegularWisconsinite, CyclonicStormYutu, ARay10, Gex4pls, Nioni1234, Dannisom, HurricaneCovid, Skarmory, Moline1, HurricaneIcy, Beraniladri19, HurricaneEdgar, Miguel 04012010, Cyclonetracker, Dam222, Hi 022828, Elijahandskip, TovarishhUlyanov, Animem 1, Shift674, Super Cyclonic Storm Corona, ThePelicanThing, FinnTheHurricaneFanatic, 8medalkid, Vida0007, TFESS, Doge1941, Tropical Storm Angela, HurricaneKappa, KingLucarius, Hurricanestudier123, 2 0 D a r t h S a n d M a n 0 5, iBlazeCat, FuturPDUCTIONS, SputtyTheSputnik, AveryTheComrade, Poxy4, SovietCyclone, Gummycow, Chong Yi Lam, German2k2k, Wikihelp7586, StopBoi, Final-Fantasy-HH, TheActiniumSpoon, Ididntknowausername, Dalandaniel, BrownieKing, Bunny04032010

New GAs since January 1, 2020: Hurricane Erin (1995), Typhoon Halola, 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Kirk (2018), Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Mexico, Hurricane Audrey, 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, 1916 Pensacola hurricane, Paleotempestology, 1934 Atlantic hurricane season, 1916 Virgin Islands hurricane, Cyclone Indlala, Typhoon Cecil (1985), Meteorological history of Hurricane Florence, 1929 Bahamas hurricane, 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Olga (2019), 1923 Atlantic hurricane season, 1893 San Roque hurricane, 2006–07 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Typhoon Zeke, Typhoon Amy (1991), Typhoon Yunya (1991), Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean, Typhoon Sarika, Typhoon Warren, Typhoon Holly (1984), Typhoon Eli (1992), Typhoon Alex (1987), Typhoon Irving (1982), Tropical Storm Bolaven (2018), Tropical Storm Sanba (2018), Tropical Storm Nanmadol (2017), 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Dolores (2015), Typhoon Percy (1990), Tropical Storm Ampil, Typhoon Jebi (2018), Tropical Storm Ewiniar (2018), Hurricane Barry (2019), Tropical Storm Bertha (2020), Tropical Storm Arthur (2020), Hurricane Chris (2018), Typhoon Louise–Marge, Cyclone Ava, Hurricane Beryl

New FAs since January 1, 2020: Tropical Storm Ileana (2018), Cyclone Chapala, Racer's hurricane, Hurricane Humberto (2019), Tropical Storm Zelda (1991), Hurricane Lane (2018), 1916 Texas hurricane, Hurricane Willa, Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian, Tropical Storm Vicente (2018), Hurricane Hector (2018), Hurricane Walaka

Sockpuppetry in WPTC, by LightandDark2000

Due to recent incidents involving sockpuppetry within WPTC, I invited some editors to address the problem of socking inside the project. MarioJump83!

Sockpuppetry is a serious offense committed by various users on Wikipedia. Our own WPTC is not immune to this travesty. WPTC has seen its fair share of abuse from serial vandals and LTAs throughout the years. From 2013 through 2018, IPhonehurricane95 vandalized dozens of tropical cyclone articles and created more than 200 sock accounts. For several years, mostly spanning a two-year period from 2013 to 2014, IPhonehurricane95 defaced numerous tropical cyclone articles, mostly ones that he had once contributed to, were major storms, or were storms in an active tropical cyclone season. He also attacked essentially every single active editor on WPTC at the time, and he went on to attack every single Admin and CheckUser who had ever blocked him, in addition to making making racist remarks and threats of harassment. He eventually went cross-wiki, forcing the intervention of Stewards. In July 2014, he began including graphic 9/11 images in his vandalism, which further damaged the image of the project. IPhonehurricane95's vandalism inspired several copy-cat vandals, including one who has continued to plague the project to this day. This is a problem with LTAs and serial vandals – those who aren't stopped quickly enough and early on often bring bad publicity to the project, in addition to elevating the risk of copycat inspiring knock-offs. In 2016, IPhonehurricane95's socking spree dramatically decreased, with the LTA disappearing in 2018. Sockpuppetry on WPTC has not been nearly as bad since then, but sockpuppetry persisted on WPTC afterward, even to this day. Recent LTAs that WPTC had to deal with include Fly High in the Sky and Wyatt2049, and possibly Evlekis, with the later two engaging in a campaign of vandalism claiming fake Category 5 upgrades (or Category 0 downgrades) "from God" that attracted a lot of bad publicity. Recently, some users dabbled with socking, which got them into trouble. With the recent breaches of trust on WPTC and the confirmation of socking by CUs in several of the newer members, some members of WPTC have called for WPTC members to be vetted by CUs. In the past year alone, a few editors who had recently joined the project came out as sockmasters who went on to become LTAs, further adding to the pressure on WPTC. Personally, I feel that the newer users who joined within the past 6 months with a history of disruption should be examined by a CheckUser, but long-standing CU policy is to not investigate anyone unless there are serious allegations of sockpuppetry (with evidence). This policy exists for good reason, and these requests for blanket CUs may very well be turned down, if proposed.

Sockpuppetry is not only bad for the reputation and integrity of the project. It is also harmful to the well-being of editors on the site, especially when they become the targets of attacks. In addition, sockpuppetry breaks the trust of the community when the said offender is a trusted and valued member of the community, no matter the level and duration of the offense. Those editors have to work hard to regain the trust of the community, and in some cases, trust may never be restored. Perhaps equally as bad, sockpuppetry leads to false accusations of the practice and claims of intentional bad faith against both reformed ex-sockpuppeteers and non-socking editors alike. This further damages the reputation of the site, while unnecessarily inflaming tensions between editors on the project and damaging the cohesion between the community. These aspersions also hurt well-meaning editors on the site, and can have the unwanted consequences of embittering them or prompting them to go into retirement. While there are users on WPTC who are dedicated to rooting out and combatting vandals and sockpuppeteers on the site (including some who are a part of the Counter-Vandalism Unit), this is a responsibility that the entire project needs to bear as a whole, since socking is an issue that affects the entire project in one way or another. Editors should be willing and able to investigate potential cases of socking and other types of abusive behavior, while maintaining good faith at the same time. Sockpuppetry is serious issue and an ongoing challenge to the project. Equally as bad are unfounded allegations of the abuse against editors with a long-standing history of being a net-positive. However, together, as a community, we can combat this menace to safeguard the integrity and accuracy of WPTC articles, and make Wikipedia a healthy, productive environment. ~ LightandDark2000 🌀

The Renewal and Growth of WPTC, by LightandDark2000

WPTC had its humble beginnings in the early days of Wikipedia. The WikiProject was founded by Jdorje on October 5, 2005, during the heart of the record-breaking and devastating 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The founding of WPTC provided a place for editors who had an interest in tropical cyclones to collaborate. Over the next few years, dozens of users flocked to WPTC, growing the ranks to over 60 active members by 2011. This was the first generation of WPTC editors, many of whom had been active on Wikipedia within a few years of its founding in 2001. The first WPTC editors worked hard on improving the quality and quantity of tropical cyclone articles, attaining 100 Good Articles (GAs) and several Featured Articles (FAs) by January 2007. The number of existing TC articles grew each month, with the project boasting 1,000 articles by January 2008. However, as the years passed by, long-time members of the WPTC gradually began dropping out. Reasons included entering college, a busy work schedule, loss of interest in the subject, and retirement from Wikipedia, among other reasons. By January 2011, more than 120 members had either become inactive or had left Wikipedia entirely. By the end of the year, WPTC membership had hemorrhaged to the point where roughly 19 users remained in the WikiProject. As of this writing, the first 13 members on the WPTC roster can be considered the remaining "core" of this first generation that has stayed with the project throughout the years. But the initial WPTC Golden Age was over. The flow of new recruits fell off sharply, and overall interest declined. WPTC would remain at this reduced level of membership and activity for years to come.

More users continued to join the WikiProject over the next several years, albeit on a significantly reduced scale. Even then, the vast majority of the work done on tropical cyclone articles were largely carried out by a "core" of roughly a dozen experienced editors who stayed on with the WikiProject throughout the year, even as tropical cyclone activity shifted between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. However, this reduction in the numbers of active users meant that many more articles ended up being neglected, or suffered from reduced quality. The flow of new GAs and FAs slowed down, and new FACs almost ground to a halt. Some long-time editors, such as Hurricanehink, continued to hammer out TC articles, while recruiting and mentoring new members. The second generation of WPTC editors began showing up in 2013 through 2016, including Nova Crystallis, Typhoon2013, Master of Time, KN2731, and me. (I had edited on Wikipedia for several years before then, but I wasn't officially a part of WPTC prior to 2014.) While new editors continued to join each year, others kept on leaving, and the size of the roster remained around the same size. On a Featured Article review, one of the reviewers even remarked that WPTC was no longer as lively as it once was, with much of the activity having died down. Working on WPTC grew depressing at times, with some of the active editors moving on to other topics when their basins of interest went inactive (usually when the northern hemisphere seasons came to an end). Articles suffered from quality control and content issues in numerous places, especially articles on storms outside of the North Atlantic and East/Central Pacific hurricane basins, where most of the activity from experienced editors was historically concentrated. Articles for storms in the Southern Hemisphere were the hardest-hit, with only a few editors, such as Jason Rees, continuing to work hard on them year-round. As usual, the vast majority of work fell on a tight-knit group of roughly two dozen editors, most of whom were senior editors who had been present since the early days of WPTC. At times, I wondered whether I would ever see the day in which we would have enough active editors on our roster to bring WPTC back to its former glory.

From 2016 to 2018, more users joined WPTC, including ChocolateTrain, Hurricane Noah, and MarioProtIV, some of whom would later play a key role in revitalizing tropical cyclone articles or WPTC on some level. In 2018, Hurricane Noah helped restructure some of the internal dynamics of WPTC, including the creation of specific task forces for certain topics and also designing a new award system, in order to help motivate WPTC members and also to help coordinate the work between other editors more effectively. That same year, he kicked off a massive campaign to get more articles to GA and FA status, By late 2020, more than two dozen articles had been brought up to GA or FA status, and WPTC saw its first potential Featured Topic Candidate in more than 6 years (the 2018 Pacific hurricane season). After 2019, the number of new members gradually increased, and activity picked up across the WikiProject. A third batch of new editors showed up between 2018 and 2019, tripling the WPTC roster to 60+ active members. These editors included FleurDeOdile, CycloneYoris, EBGamingWiki, Sandy14156, SaiTheCyclone, DavidTheMeteorologist, JavaHurricane, and others. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Despite the ensuing lockdowns and other fallouts from the pandemic, WPTC saw an explosion of new editors that same year. This 4th generation of editors was, by far, probably the largest influx of new membership that WPTC had ever seen. By the end of the year, the active membership roster had exploded from 69 to 124 active members. Our newer members from 2020 include AC5230, CycloneFootball71, Chicdat, Hurricaneboy23, Chlod, Destroyeraa, MarioJump83, ChessEric, Modokai, CodingCyclone, Cyclone Toby, TornadoLGS, HurricaneCovid, Skarmory, and many, many others. The wait was finally over. New life had been breathed back into WPTC. It was almost as if the good old days of the WikiProject were starting to return. While we've had our ups and downs this year, the influx of new editors infused WPTC with much-needed new blood and also helped relieve the senior editors of some of the burdens they've had to bear for years. Our hope is that the vast majority of these new editors will stay with us going forward, even as tropical cyclone activity cycles on and off across the world. Even after the pandemic-related lockdowns end.

In closing, I want to thank my fellow WPTC editors for my experience. When I first started as an IP editor on Wikipedia more than a decade ago, I never imagined that WikiProjects existed, not to mention one specifically tailored for tropical cyclones. I had a rough start here, with a bitey reception from most of the others who communicated with me, while also struggling to learn some of Wikipedia's fundamental policies (particularly citations). However, I eventually eased into the place and the others warmed to me, and my proficiency in editing improved as I spent more time on Wikipedia. The truth is, whenever I came under pressure in other areas of Wikipedia, whether it is from hounding, witch hunts, attacks, or other hostile behavior, I've always retreated back to WPTC. Why? Because I've always felt much more welcome here. And safe. In some ways, WPTC has become my home on Wikipedia. I've gotten so much more out of here than I had expected to as well. My time on Wikipedia helped sharpen my writing (and typing) skills, which was a rather nice bonus. I've also made a number of new friends here (some of whom I've grown rather close with), all of whom I enjoy working with. Thank you, all of you, for everything. Thank you for showing me what the Wikipedia experience should be like, and thank you for being willing to befriend me. I look forward to continue working with you all and growing with you in the years to come. May you all have a wonderful 2021! ~ LightandDark2000 🌀

My stress, by MarioJump83

Hello, this is my first opinion piece on Hurricane Herald as MarioJump83. In this opinion piece, I want to explain why I'm not as active as I'm hoping for in recent weeks. I do not plan to ever make this opinion piece at all, but I had to speak out about my issue with my activity in order to balance this edition of Hurricane Herald as well as to prevent attempts at adding my work-in-progress opinion piece to this issue because I'm planning to package that opinion piece with a long-finished but unfortunately delayed opinion piece. I want to apologize for delaying my work-in-progress opinion piece numerous times, given there are numerous issues about it, one of which (stress) will be addressed in this opinion piece.

Since last December, I have repeatedly have been on semi-wikibreaks. Wikipedia, as I know it, is a serious business. I was no longer the "nice guy" when I got my MoTM. Stress has been building up as I faced college exams as well as my father's stroke which happened on December 17, 2020. I attempted to break this semi-wikibreak once as I requested to change my name from SMB99thx into MarioJump83 for a breath of a fresh air (some days before that I requested deletion of my userpage for the same reason), and did some AfC reviewing spree in January 2 and 3. But as it turns out, it was quite a failure as three AfC submissions I accepted ended up being in jeopardy, with me trying to save the last one standing. I think these experiences ruined my chance to become a permanent new page reviewer, pushed me back into my semi-wikibreak once more and I had to enroll myself into New Page Patrol School in hopes of getting back into what I wanted. As such, I decided to commit into content creation as I was granted page mover rights (temporary) on January 4. As of now, I'm trying my best to come out on this second semi-wikibreak, bringing myself out of trouble that I didn't intend to participate in and planning to become autopatrolled some day as the college exams are winding over.

Wish me and my family for the best in the coming weeks, anyone! I'm hoping that it will happen after the release of this issue, if not later. By the way - even when I'm still stressed - I am going to wish everybody Happy New Year and Happy 20th Wikipedia anniversary! (Don't forget that we also reached edit number 1,000,000,000!)

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 member list. New members will automatically receive this newsletter. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from January 15–February 28, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are MarioJump83, Destroyeraa, HurricaneCovid, CycloneFootball71, HurricaneEdgar, Skarmory, Typhoon2013 (editor's pick for member of the month), and our member of the month, LightandDark2000! 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, including past MoTMs and SoTMs, can be viewed here.

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments

• In response to the initial selection of Cyclone Toby as MoTM of the last edition, the long established-practice of picking MoTM (edition) by the main editor of Hurricane Herald was changed, with one that involved most of the WPTC community being created. The original practice continues to live on, but in the form of MoTM (Editor's Pick), as wished by longtime editor of the Hurricane Herald, Hurricanehink. The details of this event were recorded in the notes of the last edition and in this edition.
• On January 13, 2021, Destroyeraa announced the Cyclone Cup, which was inspired by the WikiCup. There are seven participants in the 2021 Cyclone Cup, who are: CodingCyclone, Skarmory, CycloneFootball71, MarioJump83, Jason Rees, HurricaneCovid, and LightandDark2000. This is the second-ever competition organized by members of WPTC. The first competition organized by WPTC members was the WPTC Bowl, which started on January 2012, before flaming out by the end of 2012 without anyone winning the competition. The WPTC Bowl was also inspired by the WikiCup, similar to the Cyclone Cup, but ran differently from the Cyclone Cup. We hope that the Cyclone Cup ends up successful, with a winner.
• In the light of BCNY2011's membership situation (now globally locked and was found to be socking also), I, MarioJump83, heavily revamped the members list of WPTC as well as formalized WPTC bylaws, with some modifications, regarding inactive membership, thus allowing veteran WPTC members Runningonbrains, Juliancolton (two of the 14 WPTC core members), Atomic7732 and Derpdadoodle to rejoin the project. I also tried to enforce some guidelines regarding recruiting and membership as it was discussed previously, but since I did not discuss and establish the consensus in regards to enforcement and the shape of "guidelines" as of now is more of an essay, for now they will be considered unofficial and have yet to be implemented. It will be discussed later on, probably in a survey.
• During Wikipedia's 15th anniversary, I officially revived the Non-tropical storms WikiProject (WPNTS), due to WPTC editors actively joining the WikiProject, despite the fact that the WikiProject was defunct. (More reasons will be stated in my opinion piece in the next issue of the WPNTS newsletter.) Despite its formal revival, WPNTS was not fully reorganized until February 7. That day, I closely modeled that WikiProject after WikiProject Tropical cyclones, thus tying WPNTS together with WPTC, as the two WikiProjects are closely intertwined. In the meanwhile, I discovered the defunct newsletter of WPNTS and later on, WikiProject Severe Weather, both of which has their last issues in March 2008. As I began WPNTS makeover, I revived both publications. The WikiProject Non-tropical storms Newsletter, which is known as The Frozen Times, and the WikiProject Severe weather Newsletter will become sister publications of The Hurricane Herald going forward. I have set their publication dates on March 15, and April 1, 2021, respectively, and they are going to become semi-regular newsletters. Before they ever get published, I implore you to help me writing these newsletters, the links for which are listed here: The Frozen Times, WikiProject Severe Weather.
• Alongside the revamp above, I discovered the 2011 list through looking at the edit history of the members page, which shows the true extent of this WikiProject's popularity, as well as the members that joined the project after 2011 but were eventually removed from the roster, as the after effects of Hurricanefan25's mass removal of inactive WikiProject members. I restored them back to the list during and after the revamp - they were truly part of the WikiProject during the golden age of WPTC and I see it's removal by the sock of Perseus, Son of Zeus, as effectively destroying the history of the WPTC because of the importance of these members. The restored list reveals that Knowledgekid87 is actually a member of WPTC back in the day and clearly still participates in the project, while Rosalina2427 is actually an another member of the 14 golden age WPTC remnants that still remain to this day. (Note: These were the members that was listed before TheAustinMan joined the project) Our newsletter's subscribers AySz88, RingTailedFox, WmE, Douglasr007, Dylan620 and X! were actually members of this WikiProject, despite the belief that they weren't. And the others, such as Good kitty and Miss Madeline were very influential in the building of this WikiProject. In conclusion, you can see that there is more from the WikiProject than meets the eye. The WikiProject used to be huge before 2010s decade started, and they were the building blocks of the project that unfortunately were erased by some sock.
• The three-month merge moratorium, which has been implemented since November 23, 2020, ended on February 23, at 03:45:00 UTC. During the moratorium, when it was in effect, there were generally no attempts to discuss changes to the moratorium, nor were there any requests for article mergers. However, there were two requests to allow an exception to the merge moratorium. One of which was to merge Meteorological history of Hurricane Michael to the Hurricane Michael as that article presents an obstacle for Hurricane Michael article to reach GA - the consensus for exception was quickly reached on Christmas 2020, and on January 5 the article was finally merged. The other, which was meant for Hurricane Jeanne's impacts articles, was never made into a proposal and thus were not seriously discussed at all. The first such merger after the merge moratorium expired was merging Tropical Storm Amanda (2020) and Tropical Storm Cristobal (2020) into Tropical Storm Amanda–Cristobal, which later was requested to be moved into 2020 Central America and Mexico floods and opposers of the merger requested splitting them back once again.

New articles since the last newsletter include:

• 1950 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 1951 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• Cyclone Guambe
• Hurricane Olivia (1982)
• Ken Graham
• List of named storms (E)
• List of named storms (F)
• List of named storms (G)
• List of named storms (H)
• List of named storms (M)
• List of named storms (N)
• List of named storms (O)
• List of typhoons in the Philippines (1963–1999)
• List of typhoons in the Philippines (2000-present)
• List of Western Pacific tropical depressions
• Tropical cyclones in 1997
• Tropical cyclones in 1998
• Tropical cyclones in 1999
• Tropical cyclones in 2000
• Tropical cyclones in 2001
• Tropical Storm Barijat
• Tropical Storm Linfa
• Typhoon Prapiroon (2018)
• Typhoon Tapah (2019)
• Typhoons in the Korean peninsula

New GA's include:

• Typhoon Sally (1964)
• Tropical Storm Rolf

2018 Featured Topic Update

Featured Articles promoted (January 1–February 28)

• None during this issue.

Good Articles promoted (January 1–February 28)

• None during this issue.

Current Candidates

• None during this issue.

New Articles (Only C and below, January 1–February 28)

• Tropical Storm Barijat
• Typhoon Prapiroon (2018)

During this issue...

I, MarioJump83, the interim coordinator of 2018 Global FT's WPAC squad, feels bad with what is going on as I felt we are taking a step back with the ongoing real-life difficulties regarding important members of our task force. KN2731 had to take a wikibreak because of the compulsory service in Singapore and will likely be gone for two years; Destroyeraa's activities were highly inhibited by multiple illnesses, school exams, "bullying" issues, and series of winter storms this month; Hurricane Noah almost took a two-month-long wikibreak because due to college studies, which Noah is committed to (he also left the WPTC Discord for a couple of months, due to toxicity). I don't really like to take a lot of responsibilities within the 2018 Global FT task force, as I had joined with the intent of helping GA's that involves this year, i.e. like what I did in Cyclone Ava and Cyclone Owen as of now, but with so many of us were forced out of commission due to these problems I mentioned, I and LightandDark2000 had to take much of the responsibility within the task force. Because of this reason, I strongly recommend you, readers of Hurricane Herald, to join this task force to help take pressure off from us. Note that this is not a formal invite, as Wikipedia is free and anyone can edit, but this is what we have to deal with in this current situation, especially because of our real-life problems and commitments. Let's hope that we, including you, can make this through with what we can do!

We are recruiting

If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the FAC review process for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to LightandDark2000 or any other member of the 2018 FT task force.

WikiProject To-Do

Member of the month (edition) – LightandDark2000

LightandDark2000 joined Wikipedia as an IP editor on May 2, 2009. Although a couple of users encouraged him to make an account early on, he decided to continue editing articles from his IPs for the next few years. He registered his user account in May 2012 and spent another year on Wikipedia as an IP editor, before fully transitioning over to his account in the summer of 2013. He received an invitation to join WPTC in March 2014, which he accepted. Ever since joining WPTC, LightandDark2000 has been a regular editor on tropical cyclone articles and one of Wikipedia's most active rollbackers, putting him on the forefront in the fight against vandals and LTAs, and actively steering the WikiProject out of stagnation. He also defended WPTC from numerous vandals, including the likes of the LTAs IPhonehurricane95 and Lightning Sabre. In late 2014–early 2017, LightandDark2000 largely moved out of WPTC into MILHIST (as well as taking a 3-month WikiBreak in the fall of 2016—due to college work and stress from on-wiki hounding), before returning to WPTC in September 2017, following the devastating landfall of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. From there, LightandDark2000 regularly contributed to tropical cyclone articles, as well as articles on other storms and natural disasters, before taking a series of WikiBreaks in late 2019 through mid-2020, due to college work and real-life activities.

However, LightandDark2000 returned in July 2020, just as the extremely-active North Atlantic hurricane season got underway. By the time the last issue of The Hurricane Herald was released, LightandDark2000 had made a full return and was ramping up activity, even as WPTC was beset by a series of problems within its membership, ranging from blocks to stress-induced WikiBreaks. During this time of crisis, LightandDark2000 stepped up very quickly - first, he helped out a number of users who were struggling with personal issues on the WikiProject. Then, he joined 2018 Global FT (currently the Interim Coordinator, with Hurricane Noah and KN2731 stepping aside due to real-life commitments). From there, he conducted his first GA review, which was for Hurricane Beryl. After that, he took on a major role in the writing of the previous issue of The Hurricane Herald, which as of this writing is the biggest issue of Hurricane Herald ever published, at an excess of 50,000 bytes, as well as being the most visually-balanced Hurricane Herald issue since the first issues of Hurricane Herald (if it were to be viewed using a 1920×1080 desktop using Legacy Vector). For these reasons and his contributions to the WPTC in the past, we will finally thank LightandDark2000 for all of his contributions by rewarding him with the Member of the Month for this edition. It's quite sad that he didn't get this award since the restart of Hurricane Herald in late 2018 to this day, but now, he has the opportunity to win the award for the first time. We are hoping to see more from LightandDark2000 in the future. For example, he joined the 2021 Cyclone Cup (and also volunteered to take on the role of a judge, if necessary), a new competition for WPTC members based on the WikiCup!

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter

• DaniloEvan123 (talk · contribs)
• AwesomeHurricaneBoss (talk · contribs)
• HarrySupertyphoon (talk · contribs)
• Flasty Jam (talk · contribs) (Rejoined)
• Akbermamps (talk · contribs)
• VantaWiki (talk · contribs)
• Aegeou2 (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!

From January 15 to February 28 no featured article were promoted.

From the Main Page: Documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from January 15–February 28, 2021 in chronological order.

Today's Featured Article/List

• February 18, 2021 - Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian

Did you know...?

• January 18, 2021 - Hurricane Beryl
• February 9, 2021 - Cyclone Meena

There are currently no featured article candidates.

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 164 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 133 A-class articles, and 1,010 good articles. There are only 71 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 415 C-class articles, 788 start-class articles, and 182 stub-class articles, with 23 lists, and 9 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 →

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.

Special thanks to David Roth, Keith Edkins, Hylian Auree and HurricaneSpin

In this section, we want to thank these first-generation WPTC members for being able to stay in here for years before 2020. They (David, Keith, Hylian and Spin) are one of greatest content creators in WPTC history, helping to build and shape WPTC for what it is now today. Without them, we don't know if WPTC would be like today. David Roth's expertise, Keith Edkins' maintenance activities, Hylian's and Spin's content creation skill helped a lot in the early days of WPTC and we hope some of us can replicate what they can do in today's WPTC.

Member of the month (Editor's Pick) – Typhoon2013

Typhoon2013 first edited Wikipedia in August 2013, and ever since joining Wikipedia, Typhoon2013 has been one of the most prolific editors in Western Pacific basin. Since last November, Typhoon2013 has been working very hard on getting tropical cyclone intensity lists of Western Pacific basin done, lending a hand in creation of named storms lists of C, P, R, and S (alongside finishing List of named storms (T) which I was unable to complete because of college), as well as finishing storm lists of Pacific typhoon seasons from 1980 to 1964. For the efforts Typhoon2013 has done leading to the publishing of this newsletter, I, MarioJump83, as one of many editors of Hurricane Herald, will be picking Typhoon2013 as the Member of the Month (Editor's Pick) and thank him for his contributions to build a bedrock foundation for the rapidly-growing Western Pacific coverage of the Wikipedia. We wish Typhoon2013 best of luck at college!

My experience here on Wikipedia - by Destroyeraa

Was planned to be published in 44th edition of Hurricane Herald, however due to some issue (and per Destroyeraa's request), I have delayed this opinion piece further into this edition. At this point, I do not want to see this opinion piece getting delayed further into May 2021 as I really, really want this OP, alongside my OP below to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. MarioJump83!

I created my Wikipedia account on January 18, 2020. I seems so long ago. My first edit was creating my user page, and my first mainspace edit was on Hammonton, New Jersey. My first autoconformed edit was on my userpage. By then, I was editing about myself and roads. My first tropical cyclone edit was on January 30, on Tropical Storm Nestor, which got reverted. I also edited about the coronavirus epidemic before it became a worldwide pandemic. I edited List of United States tornadoes in April 2020, but got bitten on the talk page, though my love for tornadoes kept me editing pages. I also began editing numerous cyclone pages, and joined WPTC on May 19. It was sad that no one noticed that I joined, and no one welcomed me on my talk page for five months already. I submitted my first article, Tropical Storm Bertha (2020), which was accepted. I was still rather new, and mistook Chicdat as an admin. It was June already. Still, no one welcomed me. Finally, on June 5, Hurricanehink took notice of my edits and welcome me! Around the same time, I downloaded Twinkle. I found the CSD function very cool, and I admittedly didn't read WP:CSD and misused it. One month later, I met my first real vandal, which turned out to be a Force Thirteen kid who was messing around changing everything to Force Thirteen without leaving a source or an edit summary, which most people will take as vandalism. It turned out to be pretty rough, and did not end well for both of us. I was still learning at that stage, as shown here. After that, my experience here got much better. Perhaps it was the "learning-the-ropes" phase that is the hardest for all Wikipedians. I created and wrote some good articles, with my first being Hurricane Dolores, promoted on September 24. I also developed a good relationship with many of my fellow Wikipedians, including the editors/writers of this newsletter and many other newer and older users. Then came the sock block. I'll not get into much detail about that, though I will be forever indebted to the countless users who vouched for me and who welcomed me back to the community with open arms. Thank you. I am glad to be here today.~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸

My experiences of tropical cyclones and tropical cyclone editing before joining WPTC - by MarioJump83

I planned this OP way back to September 2020, but because of issues with length and college (also even stress - detailed in my previous opinion piece My stress), I decided to delay this opinion piece until now. I also intend to publish this opinion piece alongside Destroyeraa's OP above, thus pushing back the date where I can publish this opinion piece further. Thus I fully apologize for delaying this opinion piece for way too long. I was unable to spend my time on building this opinion piece because of these issues and thus getting this opinion piece complete in time. By the way, this will be the final opinion piece I will write for Hurricane Herald - I'm done with it after two opinion pieces as SMB99thx and two opinion pieces as MarioJump83. It was so much fun creating opinion pieces, but I don't want to have opinion pieces for four straight issues already since the 43rd edition! I'm still editing Hurricane Herald in the future, but not writing opinion pieces any further - ...unless you're inviting me to write an opinion piece in my user talk page, which I'll do my best to comply.

Hello, WikiProject Tropical cyclones! I want to tell you about the reasons why I liked and loved tracking tropical cyclones and my experience regarding editing tropical cyclones before I joined this WikiProject.

First of all, I have been watching tropical cyclones but on-and-off since 2012. That year, Hurricane Sandy as I remembered it got significant coverage on my country, Indonesia (Badai Sandy). That hurricane was the first tropical cyclone that I had ever known in my life (it's possible that Hurricane Katrina had significant coverage in my country, but I didn't remember anything at all about it), and without it I would never known about tropical cyclones by myself. When that hurricane was about to be finished, I visited the article about 2012 Atlantic hurricane season on Wikipedia, and it was the first article about tropical cyclones that I have ever read on Wikipedia. From that day, my interest on tropical cyclones grew but it was limited to the Atlantic hurricanes only. When 2013 started, if I'm thinking about tropical cyclones I frequently visited 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, and in particular the Seasonal summary section, which drew my eyes into when I didn't edit tropical cyclone articles yet.

In November 2013, however, as I'm becoming an uncle of one (now three), Typhoon Haiyan showed up. That typhoon which devastated the Southeast Asian brother country of Philippines caused my interest on tropical cyclones to grow outside of Atlantic hurricanes. Now I'm finally aware of what's happening in Pacific, and it was the first time that I learned that tropical cyclones are everywhere in the world, not just Atlantic. That time, I read 2013 Pacific typhoon season as well as 2013 Pacific hurricane season (I don't remember reading these kinds of articles before that). When I read about it, I also visited 2013 Atlantic hurricane season once again and I was shocked by that it wasn't active! As such, I didn't watch tropical cyclones that much for most of 2014 and 2015. Hurricane Patricia didn't convince me enough to watch tropical cyclones again. In 2016, things changed again that led me to make my first edits on tropical cyclones in Wikipedia.

Once Hurricane Matthew came and with it significant coverage on Indonesia that I have never seen since Hurricane Sandy, I finally watched tropical cyclones full-time for the first time. That hurricane was the cyclone that finally got me going for the tropical cyclones (not just the recent seasons, but the older seasons and also SHEM) and my quick-growing interest on tropical cyclones led me to find what made me uncomfortable. That led me to make my first edit on tropical cyclone-related articles in Wikipedia - which was to add Central Pacific to a navigation template about leading tropical cyclones in March 7, 2017. Later that month, I made a second edit, which was to remove a year from a link to Hurricane Omar. These additions are quite "cosmetic" (as said by ChessEric about Hurricane Michelle GA), but soon enough in the next month I found more things that made me more uncomfortable - they are legitimate vandalism. The first edit I made in that month was to revert a vandalism on Hurricane Andrew (I edited it again after that, which was to change mb to mbar). On the next day, I fixed another vandalism in 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. That isn't the end yet, as I found one more vandalism in Hurricane Dennis, and I promptly fixed them.

As I'm getting more invested on tropical cyclone articles, I've eventually heard and found out why some articles didn't have (XXXX year) in them - and it is because that they are primary topics. When I see some articles like Hurricane Linda (1997), which I thought they are primary topics (I eventually realized that they are not, and I have not requested moving these articles under WPTC banner ever since), I sought the same treatment in these kinds of articles that I thought was primary topics and thus I requested moves in many of these said articles under that thought. I believed that these requests will garner support by most of the WPTC members (which I thought will think for the same), but never did I know that these requests gained overwhelming opposes, primarily from WPTC members - and they talked to me about it. Of course, I panicked and I have to withdraw some of these nominations.

That didn't stop me from editing more WPTC articles, and I started to do these requested moves again soon after. This is probably the most successful things I have ever done through my pre-WPTC membership career in the WPTC realm. After withdrawing some of these nominations, I began to work on a split of 1940–49 Pacific typhoon seasons article by starting the discussion on one in May 14. Two weeks later, as I said before, I started requesting more of these nominations in a batch on May 27 - which was wildly successful (only one of them were failed, and that was Tropical Storm Bret of 1993). In a month after these nominations, and with the consensus for split, I finally worked on the split itself. 1940 Pacific typhoon season and 1949 Pacific typhoon season has been split from the article much more earlier, with Hurricanehink creating an article for the 1940 season in May 23, 2014 and Typhoon2013 split the 1949 section from the article in December 19, 2016. I continued what Hurricanehink and Typhoon2013 has been doing, with copying content from the original article into the respective season articles. First, I reverted them to the original before Hurricanehink merged them. Afterwards, I copied the respective sections from the original into respective articles and removed the respective sections in the original article. From the IDs, you can notice that I did this not in order. Afterwards, I moved the original article into 1941–44 Pacific typhoon seasons without moving it's talk page, which I want to admit was a mistake and made a major ramifications (I even started a RfD, which should not happen) in my attempts to get it back without getting it's talk page removed later in October 2020. Once moving the article, I created redirects for the recently moved article (which includes 1941 Pacific typhoon season, 1942 Pacific typhoon season, 1943 Pacific typhoon season, and 1944 Pacific typhoon season, all of which eventually turned into articles), and quickly changed redirects of the respective storms into the newly restored articles. It was a massive effort that day on June 27, 2017, and the experience that I never forgotten.

After that month, I returned into requesting moves once again for the third time, riding on the recent wave of successes. I requested the moves of Hurricane Norman (1978) and Hurricane Liza. Hurricane Liza move request was successful but Norman did not. By that point, the frustration from WPTC members are showing up and by the time I requested moving Typhoon Ida (1958) into Typhoon Ida, I had to be stopped. I also moved Typhoon Pamela (1976) into Typhoon Pamela without any discussion, but you know my intentions by that point, and the move was soon reverted. I had a talk with Yellow Evan regarding these actions, and I soon relented, never requested any moves ever since. I didn't do much for the rest of the year - the most notable moves are moving disambiguation pages Tropical Storm Noru and Tropical Storm Banyan into Typhoon Noru and Typhoon Banyan, respectively. Moving on to the next year, I did not do much once again. Most of the activity that year was working on the most of Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (2018) article. Keep in mind that I plan to return working on that article as a part of 2018 Global FT efforts, and that happened because KN2731 is going to take a break for most of this year.

Onto the 2019, I did something that I think planted the seeds for my future MoTM run and vast WPTC growth in 2020. Most of the activity in general involves creating links to the future articles, but I also fixed redirects for most 1930s seasons and created redirects for the rest of 1960s decade for NIO basin. I planned something greater than that, however, but because I had to use my phone and not my laptop (it was broken) I wasn't able to do so. That plan was a factor leading to me joining the WPTC in July 2020 (after I realized about the benefits of joining the WikiProjects) and I began realizing the plan as soon as I got my laptop back. What I did for the most of August 2020 and September 2020 was mostly set in stone back in the previous year, if you don't notice that. If I didn't plan it back in the day, I don't think I would ever got that MoTM (it would have been Destroyeraa most likely).

That was a story. It is a long story. It took me pains to get myself established in WPTC, but now here I am. If anyone could have invited me back in the year 2018, I would have rejected it like CyclonicallyDeranged, whom I believe has been driven out of Wikipedia. But coming to this year, I realized the benefits of joining the WikiProjects and now, as said by Hurricanehink, I became a vital editor for WPTC.

Volume II, Issue 2, March 15, 2021
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WikiProject Non-tropical storms: News and Developments

• On the heels of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones revival from 2018–2020, MarioJump83 and LightandDark2000 took the initiative to formally revive this WikiProject on January 15, 2021. Not long afterward, on February 7, 2021, the WikiProject community came to the decision to revive the project newsletter as well. We decided to model the entire WikiProject after WPTC, following a similar format and creating similar project pages for use on WPNTS, since the two projects are closely tied. There was also general agreement among the active editors on WPNTS to coordinate work with WPTC, given the numerous overlaps between the two WikiProjects.
• On February 4, 2021, the WPTC and WPNTS communities came together to include WPNTS articles in WPTC's annual competition, the Cyclone Cup, based on a suggestion from HurricaneCovid. The decision was made as a result of agreement between editors over how non-tropical storms (nor'easters, European windstorms, etc.) are cyclones too, and thus merit inclusion as well. WPNTS editors are now allowed and encouraged to participate in the Cyclone Cup, regardless of whether those editors are a part of WPTC or not. Currently, a number of WPNTS users are participating in the Cup, and we hope you will too!
• On February 8, 2021, MarioJump83 introduced our project barnstar, which was accordingly named The Extra-Tropical Cyclone Barnstar. It was named based on a pun in which the "Tropical" word in The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar became more 'tropical', so much that it turned The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar to brown. (Hence the name "Extra-Tropical" and the brown cyclone icon). Since there were no barnstars that were shaped like a comma in the Meteorology barnstars category, we had to take one which is available.
• On February 24, 2021, we came to the decision to model the project newsletter after the WPTC newsletter, The Hurricane Herald. The first step of that was to give our newsletter a name. Agreement was reached on February 24 to use LightandDark2000's suggested name, The Frozen Times, as the name of the WPNTS newsletter. HurricaneCovid assisted in the creation of the logo for the newsletter, and MarioJump83 aided the endeavor as well.
• On March 9, 2021, HurricaneCovid first introduced the idea of modeling North American winter articles after tropical cyclone season articles. While a few editors rejected the idea at first, by the next day most users had shown their support for it and the plan was implemented. The improvements were done over a period of 3 days, mainly by HurricaneCovid and MarioProtIV, and involved the creation or modification of several templates, including a timeline, some new infoboxes, and a button template. The implementation of these new templates has only been completed in one season article, and is still unfinished in most.

New articles since the last newsletter

• The number of new articles since the last issue are innumerable. Thus, we will not be able to list them all here.

New GAs since the last newsletter

• Braer Storm
• Snow
• Low-pressure area
• Subtropical cyclone
• December 1960 nor'easter
• December 1992 nor'easter
• December 2000 nor'easter
• February 1969 nor'easter
• January 1992 nor'easter
• Rainband
• Wet season
• Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom
• 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak
• Waterspout
• Cyclogenesis
• 1991 Perfect Storm
• Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
• Tropical Storm Rolf

Member of The Edition

Featured members – MarioProtIV and HurricaneCovid

MarioProtIV joined Wikipedia in 2014, although his activity really ramped up in late 2015. He formally joined this WikiProject in early February 2021, just after its revival. Since and before formally joining, he has been one of the most prolific editors in non-tropical storm articles, particularly being a major part of getting 2020–21 North American winter to greater quality and taking the initiative to constantly update the article, as well as other separate winter storm articles. He has also participated in and started several discussions within WPNTS, further influencing the quality of current event articles in the WikiProject. We would like to thank him for his outstanding work, and therefore jointly give him the Member of The Edition award.

HurricaneCovid joined Wikipedia in March 2020, though he began working with weather-related articles and joined WPTC in November. He joined WPNTS in January 2021, just before its revival, although he had begun actively editing extratropical cyclone articles in December 2020. He has been doing constant work on 2020–21 North American winter throughout the North American winter season so far. He has helped write much of the article, with aid from MarioProtIV, as well as numerous other articles for the most major storms. He was present throughout the barrage of winter storms and the Arctic air outbreak in North America, in mid-February, creating most of the articles for storms in that period. He also helped with the revival of the WikiProject, and it was partially his idea to model this newsletter after The Hurricane Herald. For his consistent work to WPNTS, we are jointly giving him the Member of The Edition award for this issue.

Project revivers – LightandDark2000 and MarioJump83

LightandDark2000 joined Wikipedia as an IP editor in May 2009, although he didn't register an user account until 3 years later, in May 2012. He became active on WPTC and WPNTS in 2013, formally joining the projects in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He is one of the most-senior active members on WPNTS, as most of the active participants joined in 2020 or 2021. Soon after formally joining, he largely stopped editing Wikipedia on storm-related articles, turning his attention to MILHIST from 2014–2017, and later took numerous WikiBreaks in 2016 and in 2019–2020, due to real-life activities and college. However, he began making a return to Wikipedia in July 2020, and since then, he has made a full return. In December 2020, he returned to WPNTS, with the start of the climatological winter in North America. He became a main part of the revival and resurrection of WPNTS from January–February 2021, assisting in efforts to revamp the project and helping to coordinate it. During this time, he continued his work on WPNTS articles, including during a historic outbreak of cold temperatures and a barrage of back-to-back winter storms in North America, in February. For his aid in the revival of this WikiProject, and his work on WPNTS articles, we are jointly giving him a modification of the MoTE award.

MarioJump83 first joined Wikipedia in 2013 as SMB99thx, although they first began working with storm-related articles in August 2020. They joined WPNTS in November 2020, quickly becoming the main coordinator and most active user in terms of getting the project restarted. They did outstanding work in terms of modeling the project after WPTC, with the aid of LightandDark2000, and got the project's act together. They took the initiative to formally restart the project in January 2021, and continued work restoring, improving, and creating project pages, including this newsletter. LightandDark2000 was along every step of the way, and helped out MarioJump83 create and improve project pages, modeling after WPTC. We would like to thank their outstanding work in getting the WikiProject together, and are thus jointly giving them a version of the MoTE award.

For the time being, there will be no user nominations, as this WikiProject is currently relatively small; however, once we gain enough participants, we will begin nominating members for MoTE.

Storm of The Edition – February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm (Winter Storm Uri)

The February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm, also referred to as Winter Storm Uri, was a strong and destructive winter storm that affected areas from the West Coast of the United States, through the Deep South and Northern Mexico, to the Northeast and Eastern Canada. The second of three major winter storms to affect the continent within the month, the system originated as a powerful low-pressure area in the Pacific and came ashore as a frontal system on February 13. The system then dived southward along a trough in the polar jet stream, while also strengthening, and began producing snowfall in the Deep South. The storm system then began expanding in terms of size, and the main low spawned a secondary low in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida on February 15. As the storm grew more organized, it spawned another low pressure center to the north on February 16, which quickly became the main low-pressure center. When the system exited the continent early on February 17, almost 75% of the continental U.S. was covered in snow, which almost broke a record. The newest low moved up the coast of Nova Scotia, beginning to strengthen faster along the way. It then began to quickly intensify, while approaching landfall on Newfoundland, reaching a central pressure of 985 millibars (29.1 inHg) by 12:00 UTC on that day. The system then began meandering across the Atlantic, while proceeding to strengthen further, reaching a peak intensity of 960 millibars (28 inHg) on February 19. Afterward, the storm then began weakening rapidly, dissipating southwest of Greenland on February 24.

The storm system resulted in over 170 million Americans being placed under winter weather alerts, reaching as far south as Galveston, Texas. The swath of snow and ice it produced stretched from Washington to Maine. It ranked as a Category 3 winter storm on the Regional Snowfall Index (RSI) scale, and it became the second of three Category 3+ winter storms to affect North America in February 2021. The system caused over 9.9 million power outages, with 5.2 million in the U.S. and 4.7 million in Mexico, making it the worst blackout event recorded in North America since the Northeast blackout of 2003. The hardest hit area by both the severe winter weather and long-term power outages was Texas, with the 2021 Texas power crisis taking place due to the storm. Some long-term power outages in areas of the Deep South lasted over one week long. It also brought destructive severe weather to parts of the Southeastern U.S., spawning five tornadoes, including an EF2 and a high-end EF3 tornado. In total, the storm resulted in at least 136 fatalities, with 124 in the U.S. and 12 in Mexico, making it the deadliest winter storm in decades. Damage from this system is estimated to cost at least $195 billion (2021 USD), making it the costliest winter storm on record, as well as one of the costliest natural disasters in the modern era.

Other significant storms

• Post-Tropical Cyclone Zeta – The post-tropical remnants of Hurricane Zeta began interacting with another storm system on October 29, 2020, as rain overspread the Eastern U.S. However, as a cold front came through overnight allowing a blast of colder air, precipitation began switching over to snow in parts of New England. By the next day, the remnants of Zeta passed south of New England and moved out into the Atlantic, strengthening on the way. Zeta became the first tropical cyclone to produce accumulating snowfall as an extratropical storm since Hurricane Sandy, resulting in several thousand power outages in New England and up to 6.5 in (17 cm) of snow.
• December 15–17, 2020 nor'easter (Winter Storm Gail) – The December 15–17, 2020 nor'easter, also unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Gail, the only Category 2 winter storm on the RSI scale in December, formed from a disorganized low pressure in the Southern Plains on December 14. The low pressure began organizing the next day, meandering east before it came offshore of the East Coast on December 16. It then rapidly intensified, reaching a peak intensity of 985 millibars (29.1 inHg) off the New England coast on December 17. The system then moved into the Atlantic, weakening slowly until dissipation on December 19. The nor'easter produced significant snowfall up to 15 in (38 cm) along the I-95 corridor, with over 3 ft (36 in) in parts of the interior Northeast. In total, it caused 7 fatalities and over 56,000 power outages. The nor'easter is estimated to have caused at least $125 million (2021 USD) in damages.
• Storm Filomena – Storm Filomena, the eighth named storm of the 2020–21 European windstorm season, formed over the Atlantic near the Canary Islands on January 7, 2021. It then slowly meandered northeastward, crossing the Iberian Peninsula over the next few days, producing heavy snowfall on the way. The storm then accelerated east, reaching a peak intensity of 995 millibars (29.4 inHg) and crossing Italy and Greece from January 11–13. Filomena then began rapidly weakening, and dissipated in interior Europe on January 15. It was significant because of unusually heavy snow up to 24 in (61 cm) in the Iberian Peninsula, which caused a total of 5 fatalities. Filomena is estimated to have caused at least $2.2 billion (2021 USD) in damage.
• January 31 – February 3, 2021 nor'easter (Winter Storm Orlena) – The January 31 – February 3, 2021 nor'easter, also unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Orlena, the first of three Category 3+ winter storms in February 2021, formed as a powerful low pressure off the Pacific coast on January 25. The slow-moving low pressure meandered off the U.S. West Coast for several days, causing an atmospheric river event and producing heavy rain and snow. On January 30, the weakening low pressure crossed the Rockies and moved into the Midwest, producing a second low pressure off the North Carolina coast on January 31. The second low slowly meandered up the East Coast from February 1–4, reaching a peak intensity of 985 millibars (29.1 inHg) on February 3. The system then accelerated into the Atlantic, weakening and dissipating on February 5. The system caused up to 100 in (250 cm) of snow in the Sierra Nevada and 18–24 in (46–61 cm) in both the Boston and New York City metro areas. In total, it caused 7 fatalities and resulted in over 575,000 power outages. The system is estimated to have caused at least $100 million (2021 USD) in damages.
• February 15–20, 2021 North American winter storm (Winter Storm Viola) – The February 15–20, 2021 North American winter storm, also unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Viola, the last of three Category 3+ winter storms in February 2021, formed on February 14 as a strong low pressure in the Pacific. The next day, the weakening low came ashore in the West Coast and the main low spawned several other low pressures on February 15, connected by a series of fronts. One of the low pressures to the south quickly took over, moving east over the next few days. It then spawned another low pressure to the east, which moved up the East Coast from February 18–19, becoming a nor'easter. The low reached an initial peak of 990 mb (29 inHg) as it exited the coast on February 19. The system then bombed out, reaching a peak intensity of 952 millibars (28.1 inHg) on February 22. It then slowly began to weaken, while moving northeastward, and dissipating on February 26. The storm brought a second round of snow and ice to the Deep South just days after another destructive storm came through the same areas. In total, the storm resulted in at least 23 fatalities and caused over 4 million power outages. The system is likely to have caused approximately $1 billion (2021 USD) in damage.

New WikiProject members

More information can be found here. The following list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the last issue.

• Evolauxia (talk · contribs)
• Yellow Evan (talk · contribs)
• Itfc+canes=me (talk · contribs)
• Robomaeyhem (talk · contribs)
• Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs)
• KnowledgeRequire (talk · contribs)
• All2341 (talk · contribs) (Blocked due to sockpuppetry)
• Bettymnz4 (talk · contribs)
• Anhamirak (talk · contribs)
• TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contribs)
• Inks.LWC (talk · contribs)
• Bruvtakesover (talk · contribs)
• Earth100 (talk · contribs) (Blocked due to edit warring)
• JordanKyser22 (talk · contribs)
• Jdcomix (talk · contribs)
• LightandDark2000 (talk · contribs)
• PurpleDiana (talk · contribs)
• AC5230 (talk · contribs) (First new member of WPNTS in 2020!)
• Buttons0603 (talk · contribs)
• CyclonicStormYutu (talk · contribs)
• MarioJump83 (talk · contribs)
• HurricaneTracker495 (talk · contribs) (Blocked due to sockpuppetry)
• Shift674 (talk · contribs)
• CycloneFootball71 (talk · contribs) (First new member of WPNTS in 2021!)
• HurricaneCovid (talk · contribs)
• BrownieKing (talk · contribs)
• MarioProtIV (talk · contribs)
• Super Cyclonic Storm Corona (talk · contribs)
• ChessEric (talk · contribs)
• Destroyeraa (talk · contribs)
• United States Man (talk · contribs)
• Elijahandskip (talk · contribs) (WikiProject Current events coordinator!)
• RandomIntrigue (talk · contribs)
• Bn5660 (talk · contribs)

To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the tasks or to-do lists towards the bottom of the newsletter for tasks that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions!

Note that most of the members listed here are inactive now, with the majority of them moved having been moved into the inactive list.

New featured articles (February 2008–March 14, 2021)

• Extratropical cyclone
• Christmas 1994 nor'easter
• December 1969 nor'easter
• Hurricane Charley (1986)
• 1991 Perfect Storm

New good articles (February 2008–March 14, 2021)

• Braer Storm
• Snow
• Low-pressure area
• Subtropical cyclone
• December 1960 nor'easter
• December 1992 nor'easter
• December 2000 nor'easter
• February 1969 nor'easter
• January 1992 nor'easter
• Rainband
• Wet season
• Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom
• 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak
• Waterspout
• Cyclogenesis
• Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
• Tropical Storm Rolf

Current candidates

• None during this issue

Current assessment table

Assessments are 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 8 featured articles and 1 featured list. There are 21 good articles, but only 1 A-class article, perhaps because most articles of that quality already passed an FA review. There are 53 B-class articles, 110 C-class articles, 172 start-class articles, and 52 stub-class articles, with 14 lists. These figures mean that roughly one-fifth of the project is rated B-class or better. Tropical Storm Rolf was the 20th GA in the project.

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Project Goals & Progress

The following is the current progress on the two milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. Updates on the following goals can also be found on the project home page.

WikiProject tasks

WikiProject to-do

Why I revived this WikiProject, by MarioJump83

Since this is the first issue of The Frozen Times since the revival of WPNTS, I thought we should have an opinion piece detailing the reasons based on which the revival took place. And the project member who would know these reasons the best would be none other than the main resurrector of the WikiProject, MarioJump83! HurricaneCovid _(contribs)

Hello, WikiProject Non-tropical storms! I am the one who first took the initiative of this WikiProject's revival. While most of my work here is mostly related to maintenance work and some coordinating before resigning after the revival of this newsletter (I would like to say that LightandDark2000 is the coordinator of the project now given he is the only active member to join before 2020), there are reasons why I took the initiative to revive the project.

Firstly, WPTC members, for some reason that was unclear to me, began joining the project in droves beginning in late 2020 and continuing into 2021. This surprised me since normally, people don't join defunct WikiProjects in large numbers. Secondly, many WPTC members, many of them based in either the United States or Europe, continue to edit extratropical cyclone articles, even when climatological winter ends in the Northern Hemisphere. This suggests that there is a space for WPNTS to spring up once again. Third and lastly, WPNTS-covered articles are quite active for a defunct WikiProject. I honestly think that this WikiProject shouldn't have been considered defunct in the first place.

Ultimately, these reasons drove me to revive the WikiProject on the heels of Wikipedia's 20th anniversary on January 15, 2021. It's short, but it's what I can say for the reasons why I came to the decision to revive this WikiProject. I hope this WikiProject lasts for a long time, even when I'm not present as part of it. MarioJump83!