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February 2008

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #13

Number 13, February 2, 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 January 2008.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Cyclone Gene

Cyclone Gene formed on January 26 over the open south Pacific Ocean. It drifted southward, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Gene on January 28 as it moved across the Fijian archipelago. There, it brought heavy rainfall, which caused the worst flooding in several years. Half of the country was left without power, and the cyclone killed seven people in Fiji. The storm turned southwestward, developing a cloud-filled eye and quickly strengthening by the end of the month.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • One tropical cyclone formed in the Western North Pacific Ocean west of The Philippines, which was analyzed by Japan Meteorological Agency as a depression; it tracked southwestward and did not significantly affect any land areas.
  • In addition to Cyclone Gene, Tropical Storm Elisa and Cyclone Fuma occurred in the South Pacific ocean during the month, along with three tropical depressions.
  • The only tropical cyclone in Australian region during the month was Tropical Cyclone Helen, which struck Australia.
  • Four tropical cyclones, three of which named, existed in the Southwest Indian Ocean during the month. The most notable was Cyclone Fame, which caused twelve deaths after striking Madagascar.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The January member of the month is Ajm81. A tropical cyclone editor since he first joined in October 2005, Ajm81 plays a vital role in the project. Unlike other editors, who mainly edit articles, Ajm81 maintains and updates the track maps across the project. We thank Ajm81 for his timely contributions, and may he have some well-deserved downtime after the last tropical cyclone report is released.

Storm article statistics

Grade Oct Nov Dec Jan
Featured article FA 30 31 33 33
A 9 8 9 9
Good article GA 106 109 112 114
B 78 82 86 99
Start 212 211 208 214
Stub 5 6 6 3
Total 440 447 454 472
ω 3.02 3.01 2.98 2.98
percentage
Less than B		 49.3 48.5 47.1 46.0

Wikiwork and 1000 articles In January 2008, the WikiProject began using a system called Wikiwork, or ω. It weighs the overall quality of the project's articles, and a lower number means a greater total quality. The weighed ω, as used above, is a relative number that can be used to compare groups of this article. As of this publication, the relative ω of the project is 3.404, corresponding to between Start and B class. However, when limiting it solely to storm articles, the number drops to 2.98, which is slightly better than B class. During the month, a new statistics page was created.

Additionally, during the month, Mitchazenia pointed out that we received our 1,000th article with the creation of Cyclone Elita.

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

ITN Main Page

2008 Chinese winter storms is now on the main page! Woohoo! High five! Shapiro-israel (talk) 17:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

STFU <name>

<name>, what the heck, why'd you erase the picture I uploaded, you're so mean. мιІапэџѕ (talk) 21:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Sorry, but I noticed some issues. I will send you one when it is finshed. Juliancolton (Talk) 17:06, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms newsletter

The WikiProject Non-tropical storms NewsletterVol. I, No. 1, Issue 1, February 2008
If you would like to delete this message, the original is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms/Newsletter/February 2008

Welcome!

Hi. Welcome to the first issue of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms newsletter. We know that because this is the first issue of the newsletter, that it is not complete, and coming issues will improve in organization and information. Please bear with us while we continue to improve the still-developing wikiproject and the newsletter.

What's new?

In this issue's edition of What's new?, we would like to welcome you to the new WikiProject. After seeing the other meteorological projects, we decided "Non-tropical storms need a project, too". So I went ahead, and created one. So far, we have several members, and more to come.

The main goal of the project is to organize all articles realted to Non-tropical storms. We have several hundred articles within the scope, but only a few of those are Good articles, and fewer are Featured. We aim to change that. We also plan to start a meteorological collaboration, to aid in the improvement.

So, once again, welcome to the WikiProject Non-tropical storms, from all of the editors here!


Project news

New categories, new templates and more. We have created a series of non-tropical storm articles by class and by importance. In addition, we have new templates and a few new articles. So, for now ther isn't much news to speak of as the project is still new.

WikiWork statistics

Non-tropical storm
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 1 3
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 1 1 2 5
B 6 30 6 42
Start 2 9 35 22 68
Stub 1 15 38 54
List 1 2 1 4
Assessed 4 20 82 70 1 177
Total 4 20 82 70 1 177

Coming and going

Since we started the project about a month ago, the following members have joined:

No members have left since the project was started.

Featured member

This issue, we have two featured members:

Creator of the project User:Juliancolton, after seeing the need for organization of non-tropical storm articles, created the project, and is currently active in improving articles within the scope of the project.

Featured member User:JForget, an editor and administrator for wikipedia, and of course a member of the Non-tropical storms WikiProject, has contributed excellently to the project. He has created dozens of winter storm articles and is actively maintaining Winter storms of 2007-08. The WikiProject Non-tropical storms thanks JForget for his excellent contributions.

New articles


Significant storms

First off, thank you for supporting this young project and reading this newsletter.

Main article: January 2008 Western North American super storm

Anyway, as my section is called significant storms I should detail these. The "January 2008 Western North American super storm" contained a very low pressure on record at 28.3 inches, 956 milibars, the equivilant of a category 3 hurricane. The storm produced 132 inches of snow at Kirkwood Ski Resort, CA (maximum amount) and 10 inches of rain in Loma Prieta, CA. The storm killed 12 people due to traffic accidents, falling branches, and flooding. 1.5 million people were left without power at the height of the storm.

Main article: January 2008 Chinese winter storms

A series of significant winter weather events including snow and ice as well as cold paralyzed large portions of central and southern China for over two weeks on the eve of the country's Lunar New Year holiday. Ground and air transportation was largely disrupted stranding tens of thousands of travelers particularly in Guangzhou where at times over 500,000 of them waited at the area's main train station. In addition, water and power supplies was disrupted in some areas with fears of food shortage. The event killed at least between 54 and 63 people including 36 in two separate bus crashes.

Less significant storms

  • A Nor'easter developed on January 13, causing minor impacts in the U.S., but dropping over 1 foot of snow in the Graspe region of Canada.
  • Another strong storm rocked California later on in the month, causing flash flooding and mudslides, especially in burn areas. One tornado was reported in Southern California ripping off the roof of a naval base[1]. 5 miles of Interstate 5 were closed for a time[2].

User: Southern Illinois SKYWARN contributed to this section

What you can do

As the project progresses, we will create a formal todo list. Untill then, we need your help! To get an idea of what we need to do with the project, every winter storm article needs the project tag on the talk page of the articles. Just place {{non-tropical}} with the class and importance to all winter storm, non-tropical storm and any other articles that fall within the scope. Thanks.

References

  1. ^ http://spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080124_rpts.html SPC reports for January 24
  2. ^ http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/01/25/california.weather.ap/index.html CNN story on event

For more references see January 2008 Western North American super storm

Juliancolton The storm still blows... 00:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Heh, sorry, I didn't write that section ;). Anyway, thanks for pointing out the redlink. Oh and yea, we have 2 FAs already. I am hoping to get the project someday to a point similar to the WPTC, with 60+ FAs! Until then, enjoy the newsletter. :) Juliancolton The storm still blows... 00:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow, 5 foot drifts! You're lucky :). All the way south down here all the way in upstate New York ;) we have only gotten a couple inches of snow this winter. Juliancolton The storm still blows... 01:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Song

Hi. Sorry if this isn't the place to post this or if you're busy, but anyway, for part of a project I parodied your song, Smells like Wikipedia. I thought you might or might not want to know about it. Yes, it's a parody of your parody of Weird Al's parody of Nirvana's song, Smells like Teen Spirit. Anyway, here's the song:

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Well, that's all I had. What do you think? There might still be a few errors, but I tried to correct them. Just to be fair, I credited you for the original parody of the parody of a song, which I parodied. Thanks. ~AH1(TCU) 01:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

The only problem I see is that the bridge is missing and it was my mistake, the gargling comes right after the second chorus. —Coastergeekperson04's talk@Feb/23/08 01:59