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Coordinates on List of Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence tornadoes

Some of the coordinates appear on tools:~dispenser/view/File_viewer#log:coord-enwiki.log as values for minutes exceed 59 minutes. Generally this happens when decimals of degrees are entered in the field for minutes (e.g.

I fixed a series of similar differences on List of Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence tornadoes.

Please double check the coordinates on "List of Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence tornadoes". If necessary, I can have the bot convert all of the values as on the other list. If just some of the coordinates need to be converted, it's preferable to do it manually. -- User:Docu

Open question

Would you have a look at #Coordinates_on_List_of_Mid-May_2008_tornado_outbreak_sequence_tornadoes. Thanks. -- User:Docu

Tropical cyclone WikiProject newsletter #26

Number 23, June 7

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of April and May 2009.

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Storm of the month

Cyclone Aila near landfall

Cyclone Aila was the second tropical cyclone to form within the Northern Indian Ocean during 2009. The disturbance that was to become Cyclone Aila formed on 21 May 2009 about 950 kilometres (590 mi) to the south of Kolkata, in India. Over the next couple of days the disturbance slowly developed before a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center early on 23 May 2009 and being designated as a depression by RSMC New Delhi. As of 27 May 2009, 330 people have been killed by Aila and at least 8,208 more are missing, while about 1 million are homeless. Health officials in Bangladesh confirmed a deadly outbreak on diarrhea on 29 May, with more than 7,000 people being infected and four dying. In Bangladesh, an estimated 20 million people were at risk of post-disaster diseases due to Aila. Damage totaled $40.7 million (USD).

Other tropical cyclone activity

Tropical Depression One was the first tropical cyclone to develop during the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. The depression formed on May 28, out of a disorganized area of low pressure off the coast of North Carolina. However after attaining its peak strength the depression began to weaken due to increasing wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures with the final advisory being issued on May 29.

  • 2009 Pacific typhoon season - In the two month period, there were four tropical cyclones, all within a short time period and small area. Tropical Depression Crising moved through the Philippines but didn't develop. Typhoon Kujira formed over the Philippines, causing 29 deaths and almost $30 million in damage, before becoming the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane. While Kujira was active, a tropical depression formed and dissipated over the open ocean, while Typhoon Chan-hom developed and organized in the South China Sea, eventually crossing Luzon and causing 60 deaths and heavy damage.
  • North Indian - Aside from Aila, Cyclone Bijli formed in April, making landfall on Bangladesh and killing 7 people.
  • South Indian– Cyclone Jade was the final Cyclone to form. Jade formed on April 5th from a tropical disturbance it quickly intensifed and bcame a category one tropical cyclone on the SSHS before making its first of three landfalls on Madagascar. Jade then dissipated on April 11 after causing fifteen deaths.
  • Australian Region - Cyclone Kirrly formed on April 25 in the Arafura Sea to the north of Australia within 5 degrees of the equator which is an unusual area of formation. It quickly reached its peak before making landfall on eastern Indonesia.
  • South Pacific - As the last newsletter was published Tropical Cyclone Lin was just devloping as Tropical depression 14F. Lin eventually went on to affect Fiji and Tonga causing at least $1000 worth of damage. Tropical Disturbance 15F also formed this month within the Solomon Islands. It moved eventually moved into the Australian Region but was not monitored by TCWC Brisbane as anything higher than an area of low pressure.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The member of the month is Jason Rees, who joined Wikipedia in 2007, and has written nine tropical cyclone GA's. Jason primarily focuses on Southern Hemisphere storms, as well as the Western Pacific. He has plans for featured topics for several seasons, but for now, he is a regular member of the project who adds his input in discussions on the talk page. We thank Jason for his work, and we look forward to more articles!

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Storm article statistics

Grade Sep Oct Nov Dec
FA 47 49 49 50
A 19 19 19 19
GA 161 187 198 202
B 17 13 21 22
C 107 119 118 122
Start 201 204 210 210
Stub 19 19 16 17
Total 571 613 631 642
ω 2.92 2.88 2.87 2.87
percentage
≥Less than C 		38.5 36.4 35.8 35.4
percentage
≥GA or better 		39.8 42.1 42.2 42.2

Project News
There is debate as usual with regards to notability, as well as the status of the project in general, but nothing new is going on.

During the last week, some editors have organized a page — Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Viewed stats — that has a listing of monthly page views within the project. It is under construction, although it is complete for all Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones, as well as all Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1979 to the present. Interestingly, the top 6 viewed EPAC articles are all featured, and all of the top 16 in the basin are GA's. Unfortunately, the Atlantic, at least from 1979 to the present, is much worse, despite being viewed much, much more. The top eight-viewed Atlantic articles all are viewed more than 10,000 times per month, for a total of 363889 views per month, but only two of them are featured, and none of the others are GA. As always, any help in the retired storms would be greatly appreciated.

Somewhat tying into the bettering of project articles, the basin article challenge is still ongoing. Hurricanehink is currently in the lead with a GA in 2 basins. Cyclonebiskit is in 2nd, with one GA in the EPAC. The challenge is still open to anyone, and it is not so much a race, rather a challenge just to get a fairly important GA in each basin.

TD 5 + Aila

For you too process since you still havent shown me how to do it.

JMA TD 5 - Note - Just 3 points
12N 232E
13N 234E
14N 234E
Aila
16.5 272.0E
16.5 272.0E
17.0 271.5E
17.0 271.5E
18.0 271.5E
18.5 271.5E
19.0 271.5E
19.0 272.0E
21.5 272.0E
22.5 272.0E
23.5 272.0E
25.0 272.0E
27.0 271.5E

18F 04/05

29-04-05 18z 12.5s 180.5E 30-04-05 06z 13.0s 180 30-04-05 18z 14.0s 180 01-05-05 06z 15.4s 180 01-05-05 18z 16.0s 178W

Re: Tropical Storm NANGKA

oh! sorry I didn't know that. as this happened, I will now never create a main page of pacific cyclones. thank you user talk:jpuligan_12 1833 UTC..=)

Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones..=)

Hey....how to join in Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones?....thanks...User:Jpuligan_12 June 27, 09 (1349 UTC).

Amazing Race Wikipedia Starts!

Hello, Shappy. This is a reminder that Amazing Race Wikipedia will start very soon. At 00.00 (or whereabouts), our host Firestorm will place the first Detour on your submissions page. Again, the Detour is a choice between two tasks; both members of the team choose one task and work together to complete it. A Roadblock is a task only one team member must perform; he/she may not have any help from the other team member. Good luck and enjoy the Race! :-) Shappy (talk · contribs) and Firestorm (talk · contribs) --EdwardsBot (talk) 13:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009 tornado outbreak

I noticed you decided to withdraw this FAC thinking it was premature. A while back there was talk of a joint A-class review among weather-related projects, and I think its about time we got around to it. IMO it would be least disruptive at first to just submit all weather-related articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Assessment, since that's the established system. If you think it's a good idea, I'll get the ball rolling (and post a note at WT:TROP of course). Since you are one of the editors who contributes heavily to both WP:METEO and WP:TROP, I figure you're a good guinea pig :-D -RunningOnBrains(talk page) 18:45, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FOUR award nomination

Thanks for your nomination at WP:FOUR. We are attempting to keep the backlog down by asking each nominator to review another nomination. If you have a chance please do so.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you make one important track map for me?

Hi Cyclonebiskit,

Could you make a track map for me of 1966's Typhoon/Tropical Storm Kathy? It moved into the central Pacific from the WPac. Here is the data: [1]

Thanks a lot --Anhamirak 18:17, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, could you make another track map of 1966's Typhoon/Tropical Storm Marie? It has the same reason as Kathy. The data is here: [2]

Thanks again --Anhamirak 18:19, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well, thanks anyway!

--Anhamirak 18:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

4F

Per IRC Jason Rees (talk) 19:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC) 04-Jan 18Z 16 161 199 Disturbance 05-Jan 00Z 16 161 199 Depression (DE) 05-Jan 06Z 16 161 199 DE 05-Jan 18z 17 161 199 DE 06-Jan 06z 17 162 198 DE 06-Jan 18z 16 167 193 DE 07-Jan 06z 16 169 191 DE 07-Jan 18z 18 172 188 DE 08-Jan 06z 20 174 186 DE 08-Jan 06z 20 174 186 Extra Tropical Features (ETF) 09-Jan 18z 24.7 175.2W 175.2 ETF[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #27

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the WikiProject's progress and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers June 2009.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

From the editors

In recent months, the project has become increasingly inactive; with only a few active participants, we need your help for the upcoming hurricane season! Feel free to contact Hurricanehink (talk · contribs), Juliancolton (talk · contribs), Jason Rees (talk · contribs), or Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) for more information. Thanks!

Storm of the month

Tropical Storm Linfa formed out of an area of low pressure on June 14, the storm briefly attained tropical depression status before degenerating. By June 17 the system regenerated in the South China Sea. Slowly tracking northward, the storm intensified, attaining severe tropical storm status on June 19 and peaking in intensity the following day. On June 21, Linfa made landfall in Fujian Province, China as a tropical storm before weakening to a tropical depression.

In Taiwan, outer bands of the storm produced significant amounts of rain over southeastern areas of the island. Along the western coast, rip currents resulted in the drowning of one person. Six hikers also were reported to be missing. In China, torrential rains triggered flooding that destroyed 100 homes, killed one person and left six others missing. In all, seven people were killed by Linfa, with another 12 missing, damages in mainland China were estimated at ¥655 million (US$95.8 million) and agricultural losses in Taiwan reached NT$400 million (US$12.1 million).

Other tropical cyclone activity

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The member of the month is Cool3 (talk · contribs). Though only a new member, Cool3 has contributed hundreds of sources and hours of research to several articles, two of which are now featured. The project thanks him for his high-quality work.

New members

In addition, three users re-joined the project after being listed as inactive:

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Article statistics

Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 14 83 60 160
FL 1 4 31 42 78
FM 21 21
A 2 1 3
GA 10 64 402 652 1,128
B 10 33 60 64 167
C 11 98 258 273 1 641
Start 2 61 342 419 4 828
Stub 3 63 95 161
List 3 13 60 584 413 1,073
Category 952 952
Disambig 2 11 55 68
File 7 1 8
Portal 2 202 204
Project 97 97
Redirect 3 18 64 94 179
Template 1 6 27 436 470
NA 1 1 2
Other 2 2
Assessed 40 285 1,279 1,775 2,445 418 6,242
Unassessed 1 1
Total 40 285 1,279 1,775 2,445 419 6,243
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,430 Ω = 3.38

Project News
The project as a whole is still rather inactive, though more articles are being created and expanded than in previous months. 18 good articles and four featured articles were promoted during June, including Wind. Additionally, about 28 new articles were created and assessed.

As of 01:42, 4 July 2009 (UTC), there are three featured article candidates; see the noticeboard for more info.

A discussion is ongoing at the project talk page (link) regarding the naming of unnamed tropical cyclones, such as 1978 January subtropical storm and 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane. While more descriptive titles often constitute original research, official designations are sometimes ambiguous. Comments are welcome. There is also a discussion on how the project rates its articles on the importance scale.

Tropical cyclones at associated Wikimedia projects

–Juliancolton | Talk 02:06, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A Few More Track Maps (Again :)

Hi Cyclonebiskit,

I know that I have been asking you to make a lot of track maps recently, but could you make track maps for:

  1. TC Dawn (1970)
  2. STC Dolly (1970)
  3. TC Florence (1970)
  4. STC Emma (1970)
  5. TC Gillian (1970)
  6. TC Helen (1970)
  7. and TD Isa (1970)

They are here: [3]

  • Note: If you decide to do these track maps, could you make all the point gray, because they are in 10-min winds for the Australian scale and the track map program only is in SSHS.
Thanks a lot --Anhamirak 21:23, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK Thanks --Anhamirak 21:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you very much! --Anhamirak 22:11, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you make just a few more :)

(They are from the same place as the others above)

  • Lena, Rosie, Ursula, Carlotta of 1971
  • Yolande, and Gail of 1972

Sorry if I am annoying you :) --Anhamirak 22:15, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Arlene (1987)

Hi, I am reviewing Hurricane Arlene (1987) for GA, and have registered some comments at Talk:Hurricane Arlene (1987)/GA1. Since I know you are very good at writing these articles, I am sure you can address my comments. (It just seems a little superficial and hastily put together, though I know there may be a problem getting sources.) Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 00:01, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For reverting the vandalism on my userpage. :) → Dylan620 (Toolbox Alpha, Beta) 01:25, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

Hi I'm new here and I found I think a better picture for Hurricane Andres but I don't know how to post the picture. Do you know how? Thanks.

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