Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 16

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Number 16, May 3, 2008

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 2008.

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Storm of the month

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Typhoon Neoguri was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to strike China. It formed on April 13 to the east of the Philippines, and once entering the South China Sea, environmental conditions allowed for quick strengthening. Neoguri attained its peak intensity of 150 km/h (90 mph) as it approached the island of Hainan, though rapidly weakened due to unfavorable conditions. The system made landfall in southern China on April 19, causing three deaths and moderate damage totaling over ¥296 million (2008 RMB, $42 million 2008 USD). The typhoon left 40 fishermen missing in the South China Sea.

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Other tropical cyclone activity

A weak tropical depression formed near New Caledonia in the South Pacific ocean early in the month, and another tropical depression developed in the basin later in the month.
Two named storms formed in the Australian region during the month, including Tropical Cyclone Durga, which was the first ever cyclone named by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tropical Cyclone Rosie co-existed with Durga for much of its duration.
Cyclone Nargis developed in the North Indian Ocean late in the month, and reached its peak intensity early in May; further details will be covered in the next newsletter.

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Member of the month

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The April member of the month is VOFFA. Though not officially a project member, VOFFA is an important user to the project, having maintained and updated the talk page archives on tropical cyclones worldwide; activity includes adding warnings and discussions for all storms. The user is particularly active during the off-season of the Atlantic basin, when article activity on tropical cyclones typically declines.

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New members

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New and improved articles

There were six new pieces of Featured content : Cyclone Elita, List of North Carolina hurricanes (1900-1949), Tropical Storm Barry (2007), List of North Carolina hurricanes, Lists of North Carolina hurricanes (FT), and :Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded edit2.jpg
New Good articles include: Tropical Storm Fay (2002), 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, 1939 California tropical storm
New storm articles include: Hurricane Ileana (2006), Hurricane Madeline (1998), Hurricane Lester (1998)
New non-storm articles include: Hurricane Ivan tornado outbreak, Timeline of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season

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Main Page content

Entries from 9 articles: Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Alabama, Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia, Cyclone Jokwe, Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi, Tropical Storm Arthur (1996), Cyclone Gamede, Cyclone Glenda, Hurricane Cosme (2007), and Typhoon Neoguri (2008) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during April.

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Storm article statistics

border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.5em; background: #FFFFFF; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #C0C090;" \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| Grade ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| Jan ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| Feb ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| Mar ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| Apr
align=right \| {{FA-Class}} \| 33	36	38	40
align=right \| {{A-Class}} \| 9	8	8	8
align=right \| {{GA-Class}} \| 114	123	130	131
align=right \| {{B-Class}} \| 99	96	91	103
align=right \| {{Start-Class}} \| 214	216	211	208
align=right \| {{Stub-Class}} \| 3	6	9	9
align=right ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| Total \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 472 \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 485 \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 487 \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 499
align=right ! {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| ω \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 2.98 \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 2.96 \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 2.94 \| {{chembox header}} colspan=1 \| 2.92
align=right \| percentage Less than B \| 46.0	45.8	45.2	43.5
align=right \| percentage GA or better \| 33.1	34.3	36.1	35.9
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Project News

There is discussion on the status of articles on non-notable storms in the Merging page of the project. Comments are welcome.

A [http://stats.grok.se/ Wikipedia traffic counter] was launched earlier this year. In the month of February, the article on Hurricane Katrina was viewed just over 200,000 times, making the article the [http://stats.grok.se/en/top 496th most viewed article] on the English Wikipedia during the month.

During the month, Hurricane Camille was demoted from GA status, continuing the trend of good articles degrading in status on notable storms; other occurrences include the FA removal of Cyclone Tracy and 1900 Galveston Hurricane. If anyone has any ideas how to fix the problem, feedback and ideas are appreciated.