Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hurricane Katrina's Landfall

Hurricane Katrina's Landfall[edit]

Reason: This animated image illistrates that landfall of Hurricane Katrina in a way that can not be replicated by images alone, and as such this image signifigantly adds to the articles it is in. As an added bonus, this animation contains the original time stamp(s) of the individual radar images that make up its parts, allowing viewers to gain some sense of the time the hurricane began to effect the gulf coast region and the time it took the hurricane to actually make landfall in Louisiana.
Proposed caption: Hurricane Katrina makes her second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as seen by the National Weather Service radar in New Orleans. Katrina maintained hurricane strength well into Mississippi, but weakened thereafter, finally losing hurricane strength more than 150 miles (240 km) inland near Meridian, Mississippi, and ultimately merging with a frontal boundary in the eastern Great Lakes region.
Articles this image appears in: Hurricane Katrina Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina
Creator: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 21:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't really like how the colors in the legend change in different frames. Like just looking at (14) 70 frame 9 is like a blue/red pattern, while frame 8 is a light purple solid color. Maybe just take one of the legends and copy it to all the frames? The one in the first frame has all the colors as solid colors, no patterns. Or just crop the information off. Wuzzeb 02:19, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, looking at Mode/VCP most frames are A/121 and only a few A/11... reading NEXRAD it seems like the frames were taken with different sweep times? Although I don't really know what the difference is and if it really matters... maybe we should try to replace the A/11 frames with A/121? Wuzzeb 02:26, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Cool image, but oppose per Wuzzeb. Also there's no scale bar. —Pengo 08:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose it runs too fast and cuts off too soon --Childzy ¤ Talk 12:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 15:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
Oppose I expected FPs to be something special, something that I likely have never seen before, at least, not in such detail. Not only have we all seen gazillions of such images of hurricanes on TV, we all saw more of Katrina than any other in recent history. This just doesn't add to the project, I think. Unschool 07:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Unschool's point has merit, these are such a TV staple we've all seen before. The color/speed inconsistency is also a distracting problem. --Dhartung | Talk 18:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]