Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 40
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Volume XL, Issue 40, May 1, 2020
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The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular 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. 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 March 17 to April 30, 2020. This edition's editor and author is {{u|Hurricanehink}}.
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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments
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- There is a proposal to redo the tropical cyclone maps. The new maps will be zoomable, include intermediate advisory points (the current map only lists six-hour positions), and information on intensity and date when you hover over the location. There is a discussion on how to implement different scales from around the world, which would replace the current model of using JTWC data, with coloring from the Saffir-Simpson scale.
- There has been an increase in editor activity lately (perhaps because we're all stuck inside), resulting in a significant number of new featured and good articles. Editors with good or featured articles since the last newsletter include {{u|12george1}}, {{u|Cyclonebiskit}}, {{u|Hurricanehink}}, {{u|Hurricane Noah}}, {{u|Jo-Jo Eumerus}}, {{u|Juliancolton}}, {{u|Nova Crystallis}}, {{u|TropicalAnalystwx13}}, and {{u|Yellow Evan}}. We thank these editors, and for everyone else who contributes positively to Wikipedia's coverage of tropical cyclones.
- An awards program for the project began last year. 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.
- In April 2020, the most popular article in the project was the Hurricane Katrina, with about 3,399 daily views, followed by tropical cyclone with 2,097 daily views, and Beaufort scale, with 1,685 daily views. Hurricane Dorian remains popularly viewed, six months after it devastated the Bahamas, as is the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Rounding out the top 10 are March TFA Hurricane Hattie (and the season article); Coriolis force, the mechanism for storms having their spin; El Niño, and Hurricane Sandy.
- There is still an ongoing featured article review for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which recently was reformatted to look like the every other season article.
- There is a discussion about getting rid of redirect and list-class, replacing the latter with the assessment we use for all other articles.
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New articles since the last newsletter include:
New GA's include:
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WikiProject To-Do
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Requests:
1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane, List of Eastern Pacific tropical depressions and other intensity lists, Typhoon Yancy (1990), 1971 Odisha cyclone, Cyclone Gervaise, Cyclone Uma, more
- Wikify:
Make sure tropical cyclone lists, such as List of Texas hurricanes, have storm articles properly linked
- Cleanup:
Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Fay (2002), Tropical cyclones in 2017
- Expand:
Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Typhoon Nina (1975), Typhoon Durian, Tropical cyclones in 2016/2015/2014, List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms, Pacific hurricane season timelines
- Stubs: 1876 Bengal cyclone, 1978 Sri Lanka cyclone, Cyclone Prema, List of off-season Australian region tropical cyclones, List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900), Typhoon Fred (1994), more...
- WPTC 15th Anniversary push: some goals for the 15th year of WPTC include the creation or improvement of many other articles listed in the first section on the WPTC talk page.
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Project Goals & Progress
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The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| February 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| Cyclone Damien |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| January 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| Cyclone Tino |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| December 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Cyclone Ambali |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| November 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Cyclone Bulbul |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| October 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Typhoon Hagibis |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| September 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Hurricane Dorian |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| August 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Typhoon Lekima (2019) |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| July 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Hurricane Barry (2019) |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| June 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Cyclone Kenneth |
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| May 2019
| style="text-align:center;"| Cyclone Idai |
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Storm of the month and other tropical activity for March
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Cyclone Herold (not to be confused with April's storm of the month) was an intense tropical cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean. It formed near northeastern Madagascar, where its flooding killed five people. Herold later passed between the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues before becoming extratropical.
Special thanks to {{u|Chicdat}} for helping write this newsletter's storm of the month!
- Australia - the month began with Cyclone Ferdinand dissipating off northwest Australia. Several days later, a tropical low struck Western Australia, and Tropical Cyclone Gretel formed northeast of Queensland, later exiting into the South Pacific. There, the storm brushed New Caledonia with gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. The month ended with another tropical low near Papua New Guinea.
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New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter
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- {{user|Rd003}}
- {{u|Hurricaneboy23}}
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!
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From March 17 to present, five featured articles were promoted:
There are currently three featured article candidates:
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From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from March 17–April 30, 2020 in chronological order.
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Storms around the world, by Jason Rees
Over the last few months, the project has started to dip its toe into several other types of articles away from the traditional season, storm and timeline articles. These articles include lists on what tropical cyclones existed in which year, tropical cyclone by intensity and tropical cyclones affecting a certain territory, island nation etc. The hope is that these articles will be developed over the next few months to the point, where they get used by the international community.
We have had some early success with this goal with information from Category 5 South Pacific severe tropical cyclones being used by a Facebook page after Cyclone Harold. However, we need help developing these articles since there are approximately 150 countries impacted by tropical cyclones and there are approximately 15 tropical cyclones off all intensities per basin per year. You can help by finding resources for us to use, going through IBTRACS and the various databases published by the warning centres or even helping to expand the various articles.
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Opinion piece - , by Chicdat''
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Current assessment table
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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 157 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 135 A-class articles, and 996 good articles. There are only 65 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 369 C-class articles, 736 start-class articles, and 151 stub-class articles, with 31 lists, and 8 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better.
About the assessment scale →
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Storm of the month and other tropical activity for April
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Cyclone Harold was a Category 5 storm on both the Saffir-Simpson and the Australian scale. The storm formed near the Solomon Islands on April 1, where high waves drowned 27 people on the MV Taimareho ferry. Near peak intensity, Harold struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, causing widespread damage and disruptions amid the ongoing pandemic, as well as two deaths. Harold later passed south of the main island of Fiji, resulting in power outages and one fatality. The storm subsequently passed just south of Tonga, causing power outages and high tides.
Special thanks to {{u|Hurricaneboy23}}, {{u|Jason Rees}}, and {{u|TheAustinMan}} for helping write 94% of this newsletter's storm of the month!
- Eastern Pacific - Tropical Depression One-E formed on April 25 southwest of Mexico, becoming the earliest tropical cyclone in the basin (east of 140°W and north of the equator). The depression dissipated a day after formation.
- South-west Indian - toward the beginning of April, Cyclone Irondro formed southwest of Diego Garcia and moved to the southeast, becoming an intense tropical cyclone before weakening and becoming extratropical near the boundary with the Australian basin. In the middle of the month, Tropical Storm Jeruto originated in the Australian basin and took a southwest trajectory over open waters, dissipating on April 16.
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