Talk:Atlantic tropical cyclone

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Date: 2008-06-10

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[edit] Article Creation

The article is currently in a stage of creation and, obviously, has not yet been completed. --AySz88^-^ 04:07, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Here's what I'd planned to do with the month sections under "Climatology"

  • Typical activity
    • General characterization of activity level and why
    • Numbers about activity level - threshold dates and average storms per month
  • Typical storm histories
    • Climatologically typical formation and why
    • Climatologically typical track and why
  • Extremes (short):
    • Strongest hurricane in month
    • Year(s) of most systems in month

Much of the climatology section is placeholder-like, pending re-write to fit sources to be found later. The formation/track just puts graphics found at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastprofile.shtml into words, but I think a textual source would be needed to actually cite.

It'd be a lot better if the article ended up focusing more on the "why" than the current bunch of numbers and some typical tracks, but I couldn't find any sources!

--AySz88^-^ 04:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Duely note that when you name it 'Atlantic hurricane' you are excluding storms with winds of 73 mph or less. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 07:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Apparently, there was some sort of consensus about naming these types of articles "Atlantic hurricane" instead of what I'd originally placed this article at, "North Atlantic tropical cyclone". --AySz88^-^ 15:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I think it should be renamed Atlantic tropical cyclone personally. -- §Hurricane ERIC§ archive -- my dropsonde 22:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tables

The tables obscure most of the extremes section. Unless a remedy can be found, I vote to remove them. -- §Hurricane ERIC§ archive -- my dropsonde 22:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Does that work? --AySz88^-^ 22:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable storms

Most of the "extremes" section shoudl be dropped and moved into List of notable Atlantic hurricanes. Jdorje 23:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Bah, I took all the information in the "Extremes" section from that page, so if you still feel it should be dropped (pretending that everything else on the page has already been fleshed out, so it's not as disproportionate), you might as well delete the section.... I basically made it a summary of the List. --AySz88^-^ 03:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terminology

Lots of articles refer to the "subtropical ridge" which is explained nowhere. It should have a section here. Also, there should be a section on Cape Verde-type hurricane (obviously only a summary of that article). What other common terms should be covered? — jdorje (talk) 02:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

This was resolved a couple months ago. =) Thegreatdr 08:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Link needs replacement

following produces 404 error, but would be public good to be replaced by a good link:

anyone know a good replacement please? jeffs 02:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I suggest using internet archives, like google's. — jdorje (talk) 02:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
It's no longer a 404. :) --AySz88^-^ 05:10, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Circular referencing

Please do not use http://html.wral.com/sh/blogger/2006/05/gearing-up-for-hurricane-season.html as a reference! I am going to remove cites to that blog entry, because that entry uses this article as its reference. It makes no sense to cite something that loops back to cite this article. —AySz88\^-^ 06:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tracks image

Atlantic hurricanes
Atlantic hurricanes

I've made the track map for the Atlantic hurricanes look at the thumb.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice image! --Loqi T. 04:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Storm activity graph

The image at the top of the article of a red and blue bar graph doesn't indicate the meaning of the colors. --Loqi T. 04:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The long and lonely path to inline references

  • I don't know if it's enough to remove the box, but references were found for areas where cite was inserted into the text. Thegreatdr 16:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Expanded the look of the references and shrank their size, per many of the other TC-related pages. Thegreatdr 01:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Adding more references, and removed citation box. Thegreatdr (talk) 13:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Is the focus of this page all tropical cyclones, named tropical cyclones, or hurricanes?

Certain sections of the page focus more on tropical cyclones (track and out of season sections) than hurricanes specifically. I doubt this article will pass GA without this problem being resolved. Thegreatdr (talk) 23:13, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I suppose it really should be all Atlantic tropical cyclones. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Changes have been made to the name of the article, as well as the lead, to show this article concerns Atlantic tropical cyclones of tropical storm strength or greater. Thegreatdr (talk) 14:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)