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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Meteorology. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Meteorology articles		Importance
Meteorology articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	3		3	2	139	147
	FL					2	2
	A		1			22	23
	GA	6	7	16	3	383	415
	B	4	14	20	13	129	180
	C	8	12	33	8	205	266
	Start	2	32	122	109	793	1058
	Stub	1	9	78	227	388	703
	List			4	2	51	57
	Assessed	24	75	276	364	2112	2851
	Unassessed			1	1	105	107
	Total	24	75	277	365	2217	2958

This table includes data from all sub-projects (Tropical cyclones, Non-tropical cyclones, and Severe weather) under the "None" importance column.

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Meteorology and Weather Events

[edit] Scope

The purpose of the Meteorology and Weather Events project is a large-scale initiative that simplifies and standardizes pages for all weather events, improves the information available for past events and works to provide better information for all future events. In addition, the project also improves and simplifies pages for general meteorology.

Weather events include tropical cyclones (covered in a separate project), tornadoes (also covered in a separate project), floods, wind storms, winter storms, droughts, extreme heat/cold and lightning events. Historical events involving or caused by these phenomena may also be included.

Meteorology includes atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, weather observation stations and networks, weather instrumentation and equipment, biographical articles on notable meteorologists, weather research projects, weather prediction and modeling, and phenomena related to every-day weather.

Related topics in climatology, geology and space science may also fall under the scope of this vast project.

[edit] Parentage

None

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

None directly similar

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Related Wikiportals

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active members

To show you are a member, add the {{User Meteorology}} userbox to your userpage:

	This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events.

[edit] Inactive participants

[edit] Former members

Mr.Taka Blocked indefinitely -RunningOnBrains 17:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
RaccoonFox Account indefinitely blocked, compromised. Now RingtailedFox. Jona than 02:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Stormtracker94 AKA User:Red Thunder. Retired per user page.-Running On Brains 02:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

1) Standardize all pages for weather events, somewhat modeled after the tropical cyclone pages.

2) Improve the pages for weather features and make more real-world examples.

3) Learn more for historical weather events, and provide more information for current weather systems.

Each individual event type also forms a subproject. Ultimately this could be a parent of each different project.

[edit] Sub-Projects

The project is divided into several subproject sections:

Forecasting and warnings
Hurricanes/tropical cyclones (This currently operates as a separate project)
Non-tropical/winter storms (This is now a descendant project)
Severe weather (This is now a descendant project)
Floods
Droughts and fire events
Extremes in temperature
Weather data and instrumentation
General meteorology (essentially anything which does not fall into above categories)

Currently, all but the tropical cyclone, severe weather, and non-tropical storms projects fall into the scope of the general meteorology project. Our aim for the future is to have some or all of these become descendant, separate Wikiprojects, just as the tropical cyclone and severe weather projects currently are.

[edit] Format for articles

Lede section (with infobox if applicable)
Main body
- For a weather event, this should include a summary of events leading up to, during, and after the event. It should also emphasize its impact and significance in the time that it occurred.
- For a type of weather, phenomenon, or theory, this should include a history of its observation, a description of the phenomenon, and its significance.
- For weather instrumentation or equipment, this should include a brief history of its invention, along with its applications and uses.
- For a biographical article, this should include a brief overview of the person's life, with an in-depth look at their contributions to meteorology.
See also
- This should include links (within wikipedia) to related phenomena, events, people, or other articles pertinent to the subject.
References
External Links

Note on units: All quantities should be expressed in both imperial units and metric units, regardless of the affected area. The primary measurements used in this project are imperial units, although primary-metric can be used in events that only affect regions that use only the metric system (i.e. Canada, Mexico, most of Europe). For example, to show winds of 50 mph, it should be listed as "50 mph (80 km/h)" in most circumstances. Rounding should be done to reasonable levels.

Note on galleries: It is not desirable to have an image gallery in a main article. However, linking to a gallery on Wikimedia commons using {{commons}} is very helpful. To upload a file to the Commons, click here (you must create/have a commons account to do this). For instructions on creating a commons gallery, see here.

Tornado outbreak format

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Infobox storm}} for everything that doesn't fit in the specific templates below.
{{Infobox tornado outbreak}} provides a template for brief information at the top of the page for tornado outbreaks, including the date
{{Infobox tornado single}} provides the same information for events involving a single tornado
{{Infobox winter storm}} provides information such as peak intensity and storm types for winter storms
{{Infobox cyclone}} provides information for cyclones with both a snow storm and tornado outbreak impact
{{Infobox Cloud}}
{{Infobox Weather}} provides a standard template for monthly and yearly temperature (°F & °C) and precipitation (in & cm/mm) averages for a specified location such as a city. Has a provision for referencing the source data and the date acquired. As well as automatic unit conversion, so an editor only needs to enter one set of values (if desired) and the other measurement system's units will be convert to and displayed.

(Infoboxes for other events are planned)

[edit] Stub templates

{{Climate-stub}} and the associated stub category Category:Atmospheric science stubs

This template should be added to the end of stub articles which fall under the category of general meteorology or climatology.

{{Climate-bio-stub}} and the associated stub category Category:Atmospheric scientist stubs

This template should be added to the end of stub articles which are biographies of a meteorologist or a climatologist. -Runningonbrains 01:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

{{Weather-stub}} and the associated stub category Category:Weather event stubs

This template should be added only to the end of stub articles which describe a specific historical weather event.

[edit] Data templates

{{Tornado Chart}} for tornado events to show the number of tornadoes produced and their intensity

[edit] Current weather templates

{{StormWatch}} for ongoing storm events. Should be used for major blizzard/winter storms with watches and warnings, major flood events or for a Severe Thunderstorm or Tornado Watch when conditions are very dangerous (usually, but not always, a PDS watch).

{{Ongoing weather}} in place of the "current event" tag for ongoing meteorology events.

[edit] Talk page templates

One of the following templates should be included at the top of each of the talk pages of articles covered by this wikiproject:
- {{Severe}} for tornadoes and related events
- {{Hurricane}} for hurricanes or tropical cyclones
- {{Non-tropical}} for all extra-tropical storms
- {{Extremes}} for extreme temperatures
- {{Flood}} for flood events
- {{Drought}} for droughts and fire events
- {{Weather-data}} for weather data and instrumentation
- {{Meteorology}} for other articles covered by this Wikiproject which do not fall into the above categories

[edit] Core Articles

Article	Need	Rationale	Links	Quality	Comments
Meteorology	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help
Climatology	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help
Atmospheric sciences	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	Start	Needs a bit more work
Weather	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Climate	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Climate change	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	B	Starting to get there
Earth's atmosphere	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Need help (particularly inline references)
Precipitation (meteorology)	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Global warming	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	FA	Done
Weather forecasting	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Atmospheric physics	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help
Surface weather analysis	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	FA	Done