Talk:Cyclone

Extratropical cyclone and mid-latitude cyclone are one and the same

I've recommended those two pages be merged, and the two sections on this page should be as well... I'm guess the original author was confused between extratropical and subtropical... subtropical seems to be the one that was being thought of ("extra" means "not" in this context, i.e. "not tropical") --Famartin 03:46 2 May 2006 (UTC)

vacuum cleaner

cyclone is a name of a good vacuum cleaner.

No word about Subtropical cyclone but Extratropical cyclone (Redirect) and Mid-latitude cyclone. --Saperaud 20:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Your point? -- Cyrius|✎ 23:05, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

What's lacking, or at least i've not found on wikipedia, is an image of general weather system areas (seasonal winds/rains etc). Quickly made (an hour or so) an Image:Wheathersystemgeneral.jpg, which is an awful (and probably inaccurate) picture on this subject. Dreg743 10:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

File:Wheathersystemgeneral.jpg

Colors in the picture are as follows

blue: Intertropical Convergence Zone and monsoon rains,

green: (semi-)permanent high pressure areas (as Siberian high and 'dry' (hot or cold) winds (such as sirocco),

red: tropical cyclone areas & their general movement,

yellow: general movements of other low pressure areas

No lexicon exists

Meteorologists of different nations employ different terms.

Americans and Canadians say "extratropical" cyclone, but Australians say "subtropical" cyclone.

The same is true of anticyclones.

There is no standard lexicon that is used world-wide. 71.240.101.189 12:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Are you saying that subtropical and extratropical are the same? Because the subtropical cyclone article makes a distinction. Meanwhile extratropical cyclone used to redirect to mid-latitude cyclone, but this article makes a distinction between those two as well. I tried to work my way through the various articles to clean up the confusion, but I may have left things even more confused. Maybe a Category:Cyclones could be useful to help link all the different articles together. Jdorje 07:33, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Ames

In Ames, Iowa, at Iowa State University, there is a mascot named Cy. He represents name of the teams which are composed of the students from the school...the Cyclones. Take note.

Flow direction

I think a cyclone is *always* anti-clockwise in the NH. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cyc/def.rxml agrees. I agree that there may be exceptional (weak) low pressure areas with the opposite flow, but these aren't cyclones. William M. Connolley 20:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC).

If the cyclone is on the mesoscale beta or microscale like a tornado, coriolis doesn't apply, so it could rotate clockwise in the NH. Thegreatdr 22:09, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

The cyclone as metaphor

I believe that the dress in the picture shown (assuming its attribution to Puck 1894 is correct) cannot have any reference to Dorothy since the Wonderful Wizard of Oz was not published until 1900.

As well, can someone verify whether the storm thing in Oz was a tornado, or a cyclone. Tornado has the same image, but says it is a tornado in the movie. It can only be one folks!

Well, a tornado is really an type of cyclone anyway - it's an intense mesoscale cyclonic vortex that touces down froum a cloudbase. Crimsone 13:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Major overhaul

I have just copyedited (removing redundancy), expanded, wikified and sourced much of the article. Copyediting of my copyediting would be useful if someone has time. lol. --Crimsone 16:45, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Missing: any references to the polar cyclone. Just a heads up. -Runningonbrains 00:22, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! :) I've now added the Polar cyclone subsection. There wasn't much material from the main article to be added into it though, so I've used what seemed appropriate --Crimsone 01:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, the woman in the picture is the character of "Aunty Em" - supposedly the significance of the dress is in it's colours being those of the democratic party, and the fact that the dress she wears is identical to dorothy's, symbolising a collective utopia (an 1890s allegory of the benefits of socialism apparently). It doesn't really have much significance here though - it's only the cyclone element that's really relevant :) --Crimsone 01:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah! I see what you mean with the dates now! Well, I guess he could concievable have been writing the book at that time. If not, it is said in a few sources that he used well known political images of that time. Perhaps the explanation lies there somewhere. Anyhow, I'm going off on a bit of tangent now lol Crimsone 02:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks almost B-class...keep up the good work! -Runningonbrains 12:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Cyclone vs. hurricane vs. typhooon

A user removed this entire paragraph during a "minor" October 24th edit with only a one-line explanation that it had nothing to do with the article. Below is the following paragraph in question.

The terms hurricane and typhoon are regionally specific names for a strong tropical cyclone—a non-frontal, synoptic-scale, warm-core low-pressure system with cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993). Specifically, hurricanes generally refer to such storms in the Atlantic Basin and the Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line. Typhoons refer to the storms in the north Pacific west of the International Date Line. The typhoon term has also been applied to tropical cyclones in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean, but this is not considered correct usage today. [1]

I'd like to stress that regional terminology describing the cyclone is anything but irrelevant, and I strongly encourage discussion in the talk pages before making such huge edits without a prior consensus.

-Gordeonbleu 04:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)