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Harvey MH

I finished the MH for you, and now I just need it to be moved to mainspace since it looks pretty good. Could you try getting the histmerge of the draft into the current page? (Its a redirect atm) --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 18:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Actually, I think its just better if I can ask for permission to move it since I'm getting the current redirect temp-deleted in order to move this. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 18:55, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Wow, nice work! Thanks for the help! :) ~ KN2731 {tc} 09:07, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

Thanks!
thanks for helping me to get Sengkang to GA 1.02 editor (talk) 08:31, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey, thanks 1.02 editor! It was nice working with you too :) ~ KN2731 {tc} 10:05, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

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Sorry, being a minor and that the conference date is smack in the middle of my mid-year exams I don't think I can attend. Maybe in a few years if I'm interested :/ ~ KN2731 {tc} 13:54, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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Hello

I am interested in reviewing your article Hurricane Gert (2017) for GA status. Have you gone through the process before? I noticed that you said you were in school. I am able to adapt to your timetable and can work around your classes. That means that we don't have to rush the process and you can respond as time allows. Is this acceptable to you?

Best Regards, Barbara   22:34, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello! Thank you for your offer. To answer your questions in order, I have gone through the GA process before, and I should be able to edit from around 12:00 to 14:30 UTC (for my local time that's 8 pm to 10.30 pm) on most weekdays assuming there's not too much homework, though I may look through comments at other times of the day. ~ KN2731 {tc} 11:31, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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Sun Plaza

Hi, thanks for the assessment of the article, I will concur it is start (but some people will be stub class). I am not too sure whether it can pass WP:NPP for now so I refrained from assessment, but since the backlog is way too long, I guess it's fine. On a side note, I feel that we should not let the Canberra MRT station GA dampen our spirits. Actually I will ask for a reassessment if not of both of your views as I feel that 3b is debatable and clearly 1a/1b is met. --Quek157 (talk) 15:11, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Will clean up grammar, and for no image, no choice, the Plaza website isn't up at all (this is the problem plaquing the plaza all round - management), I can't find image at commons. I am not intending to take the entire article any further, this is how much this article can be without nonsense. I struggled to find all the sources also. Thanks for your kind attention for peer reviewing. --Quek157 (talk) 15:16, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
No problem :) For Canberra MRT station I still feel we should wait for the station to open before rewriting and renominating, but of course we can still work on it and on other stuff in the meantime. ~ KN2731 {tc} 10:19, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Sigh, today there's so much good info, including cross over info , safety, completion as well as how many household will be(which I guess LTA is stalking our GA page). If I forsee this I will add these then GA first time than 3b should be no problem. Reopening confirmed before Dec 19 fyi --Quek157 (talk) 11:19, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
In my opinion 3b is mainly about taking all the info one has, condensing it, dumping the not-so-relevant bits, and piecing it together such that it flows, it makes sense, and most importantly it's encyclopedic (Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia after all). Anyway I put {{annual readership}} on Talk:Canberra MRT station to show the pageviews to see if today's Straits Times article boosted views. ~ KN2731 {tc} 11:32, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Concurred -Quek157 (talk) 11:35, 9 May 2018 (UTC) Just saying try not to get the same assessor for future GA, see what happened here [1], I don't think our GA can pass (WP:SNOW) if assessed by him, a bus stop can have so much trouble. How can our language pass, even if GOCE had copyedited, peer reviewed (which I had submitted one for my ohter article Canberra Plaza but stalled for so long no response), there will be things to say. --Quek157 (talk) 17:43, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Well English is a very convoluted language. With regards to peer reviews they usually have a rather long waiting time; the backlog is quite large. ~ KN2731 {tc} 02:36, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Hurricane Gert (2017)

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Should the summary for the notable tropical cyclones be a sentence or two? Or should it be more detailed? I just want more feedback before going ahead with some changes. FigfiresSend me a message! 14:39, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@Figfires: I would say the structure for the notable tropical cyclones should be something like a less detailed version of 2005 Atlantic hurricane season#Systems - somewhere from one to three sentences per system. I feel a greater focus should be placed on the overall environmental conditions for tropical cyclone activity over the year e.g. elaborating on the La Nina and how it caused near-record low activity in the Northeast and Northwest Pacific basins while the Atlantic was active, et cetera. Besides, I'm a little uncomfortable with the graphical timeline currently because the SSHWS and 1-min winds for that matter aren't used by the official RSMCs for several basins. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 08:38, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
@KN2731: I know that Saffir Simpson isn't the official scale for quite a few of the basins, but it would be rather difficult and confusing to make a timeline with all the different scales. I have noticed that many of the storms in other basins have a SSHWS rating alongside the official scale for their basin. If you feel like it is still an issue, you should bring it up on the project page where we are discussing it. FigfiresSend me a message! 12:40, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

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Re:Cat 3 EPAC

I made a few slight tweaks but in general, great job on the list. YE Pacific Hurricane 16:30, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

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Wow, it's seriously outdated... I'll see what I can do over the next few days. The entire thing needs to be updated with the National Hurricane Center's tropical cyclone reports. (P.S. please remember to sign your comments using four tildes i.e. ~~~~.) ~ KN2731 {t · c} 03:29, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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2018 Atlantic hurricane season

HI. Please explain this edit: [2]. According to NHC, the lowest pressure was 970 mbar. Thx. --Gwadainfo (talk) 03:07, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

@Gwadainfo: the NHC just released their Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Chris, which provides a revised minimum pressure of 969 mb. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 03:20, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
I see. Thx. --Gwadainfo (talk) 03:22, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Working Man's Barnstar
Thank you for adding the new task force to all those SHEM articles! NoahTalk 03:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Hurricane Noah for the barnstar! I'm nearly through the Australian region, and I'll move to South Pacific soon. Lots of interesting cyclones to look at. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 04:26, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

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Newsletter

Volume XIV, Issue 37, February 25, 2019

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Storm of the month (Typhoon Wutip) and other tropical activity


Typhoon Wutip was the strongest February typhoon on record, surpassing Typhoon Higos from 2015. On February 25, Wutip reached peak intensity as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, with maximum 10-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph), and a minimum central pressure of 915 hPa (mbar).

Other storms so far in the 2019 typhoon season include a long-lived tropical depression in January, and the year-crossing Tropical Storm Pabuk, which struck southern Thailand, becoming the first storm to hit the area since Linda in 1997. Pabuk caused 10 deaths and $151 million in damage. Upon entering the North Indian Ocean, Pabuk marked the earliest a storm was in the basin in the calendar year.

In the south-west Indian Ocean, two tropical storms – Desmond and Eketsang – formed in the Mozambique Channel. The latter storm killed 10 people in Madagascar. Two intense tropical cyclones – Funani and Gelena – developed in February. The latter storm left 90% of Rodrigues without power. There is a tropical disturbance that is active as of the timing of this newsletter's publication.

In the Austrailan region, Tropical Cyclone Penny developed in late December near Queensland, and spent early January striking Australia three times. A series of tropical lows and cyclones formed around Australia, including Cyclone Oma which crossed 160°E twice, the boundary with the South Pacific Ocean. In early January, Cyclone Mona caused flooding in Fiji, which formed earlier in the Australian region. Cyclone Pola is active as of the publication of this newsletter.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter in November 2013


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Member of the month (edition) – Hurricane Noah


User:Hurricane Noah has been editing Wikipedia since 2016, and joined the WPTC in October 2017. This year, Hurricane Noah created the featured list List of Category 2 Pacific hurricanes, as well as the A-class article Tropical Depression Nineteen-E (2018). Thank you Hurricane Noah for your contributions - I hope you continue editing!

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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments


As Wikipedia reaches age 18, so do we all get older, life gets busy, tensions rise, and we gain and lose editors. This is especially noticeable during the summer, when the project becomes busier. The project has slowed down in recent years, myself included. I want to do what I can to re-engage editors, which is why I am restarting this newsletter after six years. I don't want to do all of the writing each month, so please contact me if you're interested in doing any of the writing, or if you have ideas for project engagement. The main news month is that there are a lot of new project goals located on the project talk page, so check them out if you have a moment. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:39, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Current assessment table


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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • United States L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
  • Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
  • Denmark MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
  • United States Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
  • Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
  • Ohio Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2015 Pacific hurricane season you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricane Noah -- Hurricane Noah (talk) 20:41, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

The article 2015 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:2015 Pacific hurricane season for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricane Noah -- Hurricane Noah (talk) 21:41, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

WPTC newsletter

Hey there KN2731. Would you have any interest in writing the next newsletter for the tropical cyclone WikiProject? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:19, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello Hurricanehink, I'm indeed thinking of contributing to the next issue of the newsletter, just that I may not have time to do much until early April. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 14:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Awesome! It's not too time consuming, mostly just cataloging the goings on in the project, new articles, new GA's/FA's. If you're up for it, you can release it when you want, especially when it's convenient. We're all volunteers here, can't make you do anything :P ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:50, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Hey there KN2731. Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 36 - I made up the basic layout for the newsletter, and filled in a few sections. Could you update it? It needs new members, new TFA's, any new articles I might've missed, member of the month. Think we can get it published this week? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:42, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Hmm, I should be able to finish by 13 April. Might take me a while to search through new articles. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 03:55, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
That works. I was thinking of adding a little editorial section, mostly about engaging new editors and the different aspects of the project. Other than that, what do you think the newsletter needs? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricanehink: um if you want to add the editorial section please go ahead. I'll be able to update the assessment table and project goals by Saturday. The to-do list seems somewhat outdated, I'm inclined to replace it with the list currently at the top of WT:WPTC but I might keep some bits. Oh and there's member of the month which I don't really have an opinion on right now. Sorry if my reply seems rushed, I've been rather busy with school lately. :/ ~ KN2731 {t · c} 14:43, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Speaking of the assessment table the number of lists dropped sharply from 49 in the previous issue to 28 now. I suspect it might be something to do with the "Tropical Storm/Hurricane/Typhoon/Cyclone X" pages being resorted into set indices, not too sure about that though. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 14:50, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
I updated the Member of the Month. I updated the to do list last month, but I agree, there are some items on there that might not make the most sense. Feel free to add/adjust/remove/tweak what you see fit. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:48, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricanehink: I think I should be done. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 10:54, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Great! I'll publish it. :) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:46, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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April 2019 WPTC newsletter

Volume XIV, Issue 38, April 13, 2019

The Hurricane Herald is the arbitrarily periodical newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006; it has been almost thirteen years since that time. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from February 26–April 13, 2019. This edition's editor and authors are Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) and KN2731 (talk · contribs).

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here.

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Storm of the month (Cyclone Idai) and other tropical activity


Cyclone Idai was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the southern hemisphere since 1975, leaving over 1,000 fatalities. It was also the costliest in the South-West cyclone basin, causing $1 billion in damage. Idai paralleled the disaster caused by Cyclone Leon-Eline in 2000, which killed about 700 people along with weeks of preceding floods. Similarly, Idai first struck Mozambique on March 4, moving over land for five days before emerging into the Mozambique Channel. It eventually struck near Beira, Mozambique as an intense tropical cyclone.

Idai was one of a record-breaking nine intense tropical cyclones in the 2018–19 season, four of which occurred since the last newsletter was released in February. The others include Cyclone Haleh, Savannah, and Joaninha. Only Joaninha affected land – the small island of Rodrigues. Savannah entered the basin from the adjacent Austrailan basin, having killed 12 people in Indonesia. In the Australian region, there were two tropical lows, cyclones Trevor and Veronica, as well as the presently active (but dissipating) Wallace. Cyclone Pola, active as of the publication of the previous newsletter, dissipated after affecting islands in the South Pacific. In the western Pacific Ocean, a tropical depression struck the Philippine island of Mindanao.

Outside of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, there was a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone – Tropical Storm Iba, which lasted for five days off the coast of Brazil. Iba was the first fully tropical cyclone named by Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter in February 2019


More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue in February 2019. Sorted chronologically. Struckout users denote users who have left or have been banned.

To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on.

Editorial for welcoming new users, by Hurricanehink


Every year, editors new and old help maintain the new season of season articles. The older users are likely used to the standards of the project, such as how to Wikilink and reference properly. Newer users might make mistakes, and they might make them over and over again if they don't know better. If anyone (who happens to read this) comes across a new user, please don't bite, because with enough pushback, they'll decide that this group of editors is too mean, and unfun. This is all a volunteer project, no one can force anyone to do anything. We're all on here because of our love of knowledge and tropical cyclones. If you find someone new, consider using the official WPTC welcome template - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Welcome.

I also encourage that if you know any tropical cyclone researchers, please speak up and try recruiting them to edit. Veteran editors can't keep editing forever. Life gets busy, and the real world beckons!

Member of the month (edition) – Cyclonebiskit


User:Cyclonebiskit has been editing Wikipedia since 2008, and currently has 28 featured articles or lists, of which 23 were related to tropical cyclones, including Cyclone Waka, Hurricane Katrina tornado outbreak, and the Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia. Cyclonebiskit also wrote or contributed to 163 GA's. In March 2019, Cyclonebiskit worked alongside Hurricane Noah (the previous member of the month) and other editors to expand the article for Cyclone Idai. Cyclonebiskit logged 118 edits to the storm of the month, and added more than 35 kb of info to the article - together, Hurricane Noah and Cyclonebiskit wrote 71.5% of the article. Thank you Cyclonebiskit for your contributions - happy editing!

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From February 26–April 13, 2019, two featured articles were promoted, becoming the project's first new FA's since 2017:

Current assessment table


Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics.
As of this issue, there are 149 featured articles and 69 featured lists. There are 141 A-class articles, but that number is subject to change, depending if we mandate that all A-class articles have an A-class review first. There are 948 good articles, meaning it is possible we get to our 1000th GA by the end of the year. There are only 61 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 357 C-class articles, 717 start-class articles, and 139 stub-class articles, with 28 lists and 8 current articles. The number of lists may decrease further as the "Tropical cyclone X" articles continue to be reclassified as set index articles. These figures mean that nearly half of the project is rated a GA or better - including the lists/current/future articles, there are 1312 articles that are below GA status, versus 1307 that are GA or better. If the project remains productive, then it won't be long before we reach the milestone of having half of the project be rated "good" or better.

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Thanks for the edits for this newsletter. Interested in working on the next one? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:51, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

(oops, didn't notice this) I may not be particularly free between late May and mid-June. I'll see how it goes though. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 13:50, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
No worries, I'll see who else is available. Thanks for the help again. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:31, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
  • Wales Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
  • Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
  • Kingdom of Prussia Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Chicago Barkeep49 with six GAs, United States Ceranthor, England Lee Vilenski, and Saskatchewan Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and Denmark MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

June 2019 WPTC Newsletter

Volume XIV, Issue 39, May 31, 2019

The Hurricane Herald is the arbitrarily periodical newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006; it has been almost thirteen years since that time. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from April 14–May 31, 2019. This edition's editor and author is Hurricane Noah (talk · contribs).

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here.

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Article of the month, by Jason Rees


History of tropical cyclone naming - The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is given to the Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named tropical cyclones and anticyclones between 1887 and 1907. This system of naming fell into disuse for several years after Wragge retired, until it was revived in the latter part of World War II for the Western Pacific basin. Over the following decades, various naming schemes have been introduced for the world's oceans, including for parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The majority of these lists are compiled by the World Meteorological Organization's tropical cyclone committee for the region and include names from different cultures as well as languages. Over the years there has been controversy over the names used at various times, with names being dropped for religious and political reasons. For example, female names were exclusively used in the basins at various times between 1945 - 2000 and were the subject of several protests. The names of significant tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Australian region are retired from the naming lists and replaced with another name, at meetings of the various tropical cyclone committees.


Storm of the month and other tropical activity


Cyclone Fani was an extremely severe cyclonic storm that made landfall in Odisha, India on May 3. The storm achieved peak intensity as a near Category 5-equivalent cyclone with 3-minute sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 250 km/h (155 mph), and a minimum central pressure of 937 hPa (mbar). Fani caused over $1.8 billion (2019 USD) in damage in India and Bangladesh and killed at least 89 people.

Since the last newsletter, twelve systems have formed.

  • Southwest Indian Ocean
    In the Southwest Indian Ocean, Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in Mozambique approximately 1 month after Cyclone Idai, causing widespread flooding and destruction. Overall, Kenneth killed at least 52 people and caused more than $100 million in damage. Additionally, Tropical Cyclone Lorna formed over the eastern portion of the basin in late April and dissipated in early May without affecting land.
  • Australian Region
    In the Australian Region, cyclones Lili and Ann formed in early May and both affected land. No deaths were reported, although Lili caused moderate damage in the Maluku Islands and East Timor.
  • South Pacific
    In the South Pacific, a tropical depression formed in mid-may, but failed to intensify and dissipated a few days later.
  • South Atlantic
    In the South Atlantic, Subtropical Storm Jaguar formed in late May and lasted for approximately two days before becoming extratropical.
  • Western Pacific
    In the Western Pacific, three weak tropical depressions existed during the first half of May.
  • North Atlantic
    In the North Atlantic, Subtropical Storm Andrea formed on the same day as Jaguar, but failed to intensify and dissipated on the next day.




  • The Eastern Pacific hurricane season began on May 15.
  • The Atlantic hurricane season will begin at 2:00 AM EDT on June 1.
  • The Central Pacific hurricane season will begin sometime after 12:00 AM HST on June 1.
Recent storms of the month
Edition Storm
36 Cyclone Idai
35 Typhoon Wutip (2019)

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter in April 2019


More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue in April 2019. Sorted chronologically. Struckout users denote users who have left or have been banned.

To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions!

Editorial for welcoming new users, by Hurricanehink


Every year, editors new and old help maintain the new season of season articles. The older users are likely used to the standards of the project, such as how to Wikilink and reference properly. Newer users might make mistakes, and they might make them over and over again if they don't know better. If anyone (who happens to read this) comes across a new user, please don't bite, because with enough pushback, they'll decide that this group of editors is too mean, and unfun. This is all a volunteer project; no one can force anyone to do anything. We're all on here because of our love of knowledge and tropical cyclones. If you find someone new, consider using the official WPTC welcome template - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Welcome.

I also encourage that if you know any tropical cyclone researchers, please speak up and try recruiting them to edit. Veteran editors can't keep editing forever. Life gets busy, and the real world beckons!

Member of the month (edition) – Yellow Evan


Yellow Evan has been involved with WPTC since 2008. Since the last newsletter, Yellow Evan has taken 5 typhoon articles to good article status as well as created 2 more. Overall, he has created and/or significantly contributed to more than 130 good articles. Your work in the Western Pacific Basin is invaluable... Thank you for your contributions!

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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments

  • An awards program for the project began on May 31. It involves 25 levels that may be gained by earning points for completing various actions such as getting good or featured articles. Additional awards will be added in the future.
  • As of this news letter, there are more articles ranked a good article or better (1317) than articles ranked B-class or worse (1272), for the first time in the project's history.
  • Every Atlantic hurricane season from 1945 to 2007 is rated at least a GA. That is an impressive feat, and an incredibly body of work among many editors.
  • Cyclone Raja became the 150th featured article in the project. Thanks to all of the editors and their tireless edits for writing 2.7% of all of Wikipedia's featured articles.
  • In the 24 hours after Hurricane Michael's TCR was released, the article on the hurricane was edited 82 times by 18 different users.
  • In March 2019, the most popular article in the project was Cyclone Idai, viewed 231,969 times during the month. The generic cyclone was 2nd most popular, with 131,080 views. In 3rd place was Hurricane Katrina with 112,283 views. Included in the top 20 were the 2018 and 19 Atlantic hurricane seasons, hurricanes Michael, Florence, Irma, Maria, and Harvey, and the 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, which was TFA on March 20th.

New articles since the last newsletter include:

New GA's include:

Current assessment table


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As of this issue, there are 150 featured articles and 69 featured lists. There are 142 A-class articles, but that number is subject to change, depending if we mandate that all A-class articles have an A-class review first. There are 956 good articles, meaning it is possible we get to our 1000th GA by the end of the year. There are only 61 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 350 C-class articles, 720 start-class articles, and 141 stub-class articles, with 29 lists and 8 current articles. The number of lists may decrease further as the "Tropical cyclone X" articles continue to be reclassified as set index articles. These figures mean that nearly half of the project is rated a GA or better - including the lists/current/future articles, there are 1272 articles that are below GA status, versus 1317 that are GA or better.

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