Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia Commons image uploader, and a storm tracker
Please do not expect major edits from me I mainly focus on tropical cyclone, extratropical cyclone, and other weather events images and/or information about the tropical cyclone or other weather events like for an example the windspeed and pressure.
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I will be online sporadically until May 3, 2024, since I am mostly focused on college work, studying, and also focusing with two jobs at the same time. If you have any image requests on Wikimedia Commons, I will try to make time for myself to upload them, sorry for the inconvenience.
Greetings I'm TheWxResearcher (TWR). I am a twenty-one-year-old freshman college student from Michigan that loves tracking tropical cyclones via uploading satellite images. My main mission here is to upload images of weather events even though I am no longer planning to major in meteorology starting in Fall 2024, though I am still interested in meteorology.
Times I will upload during an active Tropical Cyclone (Wikimedia Commons)[edit]
We live in a age where there is a satellite somewhere (polar orbiting or geostationary) constantly monitoring a tropical cyclone night and day, so during an active tropical cyclone, I will typically upload two times a day one image in the morning and one in the afternoon, THESE TIMES are judged if I'm at work, school, and/or busy with other things. I will still try to upload if I have my laptop with me (if I am busy or if I don't have my laptop anyone can help by uploading their own image). For a Potentially dangerous or record-breaking storm I will upload up to four satellite images in a day, if the storm peaks at night I will upload a image IF the storm is more than 5% stronger (in knots) or if the structure of the storm is more pronounced than what it was at sunset or at sunrise due to IR images being somewhat unrealistic (this excludes Suomi-NPP Black Marble imagery since these are a tad bit more realistic), but I will upload IR images if I have no choice and can't find figure out the solution.
Morning (Likely will come from Terra-MODIS or one of the Geostationary satellites like GOES 16/17/18, Himawari 8/9, and third generation Meteosat satellites (Future))
Afternoon (Very Likely will come from Aqua-MODIS, NOAA-20, and Suomi-NPP)
Evening (Very Likely will come from the Geostationary satellites due to the lack of polar-orbiting pass overs during the evening)
Night (Only if the peak occurs during that time, while there's a full moon or gibbous moon, or for IR images (which I rarely use) if the storm's peak is 5%+ (in knots) higher than the storm's intensity at sunset or sunrise between the new moon and half-moon.)
Also the images I upload the file name is based on UTC and description is based on the time where the storm is located for an example I might name a file Insert Storm Name 2022-07-01 1910Z.jpg or png and if the storm is just west (left side) of the International Date Line it will be the next day so I would put Insert Storm Name on the morning of July 2, 2022 (Local Time) in the description, if it was just east (right side) of the date line it would be Insert Storm Name on the morning of July 1, 2022 since it would still be the previous day on the right side of the date line.
Thank you for your great edits and for your hard work. They do not go unnoticed, and they are appreciated. Keep up the great work! 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 15:21, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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