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Johnstown flood of 1977

Hello, please take a look at the new article Johnstown flood of 1977.

Johnstown flood of 1936

Hello, please also take a look at the new article Johnstown flood of 1936.

CfD nomination: merger of Category:Meteorological phenomena and Category:Basic meteorological concepts and phenomena

Category:Meteorological phenomena has been nominated for merging with Category:Basic meteorological concepts and phenomena. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.

descendant project or component of meterology

I think that the flooding section of meteorological project is big enough as a descendant project - any pro or con arguments for it to be tagged as its own project? JarrahTree 10:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

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Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   10:59, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Dispute over climate classification of Anchorage, Alaska

There's a dispute over the Köppen climate classification of Anchorage, Alaska. Specifically, I'm arguing that the correct classification based on the data in the article is Dsc (or using a different formula, maybe Dwc?), while another editor is arguing it's Cfc. Your input is welcome at Talk:Anchorage, Alaska § Climate classification. — Eru·tuon 22:05, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Heat wave AfDs

There are many heat wave articles that have been deleted or are up for AfD. Here is one of the discussions: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/2007_North_America_South_and_Eastern_heatwave There is no "list of Meteorology-related deletion discussions", nor "Weather", "Severe Weather", "Climate",.... The closest might be "Environment". What makes a notable heat wave? StrayBolt (talk) 16:29, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Carboniferous: Mentions ancient coriolis effect and strong winds, but this info not in source cited

Can project members please take a look at our article about the ancient Carboniferous period?

It contains the statement:

The thicker atmosphere and stronger coriolis effect due to Earth's faster rotation (a day lasted for 22.4 hours in early Carboniferous) created significantly stronger winds than today.

The cite given for this is https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-rotation-summer-solstice/ , however I don't see said information given in this source.

Can we please provide correct information and good cites for this article?

Thanks - 189.122.52.73 (talk) 01:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Climate data for Denali summit

Denali#Weather_station mentions several times that there is a weather station at the summit of the mountain, but I have not been able to find climate data available with which we could expand the article. It's easy to find data for the low-altitude station near the entrance to the park, but the summit data would be far more interesting. I can also find forecast data but I suspect it's extrapolated rather than being based on an active weather station. Can anybody help? —Soap— 20:47, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Usage of Fahrenheit in Liberia and the Bahamas

The situation in these two countries is not clear. Until recent times they used Fahrenheit but I can't find official documents/websites about the present situation. Myanmar has recently switched to Celsius, though.--Carnby (talk) 16:01, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

requested move at Talk:Brown Willy effect

Any more opinions at Talk:Brown Willy effect#Requested_move_9_October_2018 would be welcome. The question is, is it verifiable from reliable sources that a meteorological phenomenon exists by the name of Brown Willy effect? --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 05:19, 11 October 2018 (UTC)