Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones

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Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide a common layout for articles on official tropical cyclones—classified by any warning center, or considered a tropical cyclone in a scientific journal or publication—as well as the science behind them.

Goals

To provide an encyclopedic overview for tropical cyclones, including coverage of historical individual storms and the structure of a cyclone, and to categorize all known tropical cyclones in an effective and cohesive fashion.

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The parent of this project is WikiProject Meteorology.

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General guidelines

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Templates will provide a useful set of features to show information on tropical cyclones and seasons in a consistent format. Guidelines for naming, links, and categorization help keep the vast number of articles properly interconnected.

Basins

Tropical cyclones are separated by basin. Generally each basin has its own categories; all articles for a particular basin are inter-woven using links and categories. It's important that the basin is listed identically (including capitalization) for all articles. The basin is generally passed in to templates to automatically create categorizations and links within an article.

The basins include:

The Atlantic hurricane basin.
The Pacific hurricane basin (this includes both the Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific).
The Pacific typhoon basin (the northwest Pacific).
The North Indian cyclone basin.
The South-West Indian cyclone basin
The Australian cyclone basin
The South Pacific Cyclone basin
The South Atlantic tropical cyclone
The Mediterranean tropical cyclone

Templates

A number of templates exist to make life easier for tropical cyclone article writers. For a complete list, see Category:Hurricane templates.

{{hurricane}} may be included at the top of talk pages of hurricane-related articles to let potential editors know about these resources. It also can be used to identify the assessment given to the article, as well as its quality on the assessment scale.
{{Infobox Hurricane}} provides a template for creating an informative table for any hurricane article.
{{Infobox Hurricane Small}} is used to give a brief version of the hurricane infobox, and it can contain both a picture and a track map. This template is good for long season articles.
{{HurricaneWarning}} provides a top-of-page warning (disclaimer) useful for active hurricanes.
{{HurricaneActive}} provides a table to show the current status of an active hurricane (still under development).
{{Infobox hurricane season}} is a template similar to {{infobox hurricane}}, but used instead for hurricane season articles. {{Infobox hurricane season needed}} is a placeholder for season articles that need an infobox.
{{Hurricane season links}} creates a list of adjacent hurricane seasons (to be used inside hurricane season articles and particularly inside {{Infobox hurricane season}}.
{{Hurricane season category}} is a template that may be used to create hurricane season categories (like Category:2005 Atlantic hurricane season).

Images

To make uploading and categorization easier, season and storm articles should have consistent types of images and those images should have consistent names.

If you create storm track map using Jdorje's track map generator, try to upload it to Commons and tag it with {{hurricane auto track map}}.
Storm peak-intensity visible-light pictures. Most storms have a satellite picture of the storm at peak intensity. Higher resolution is always better.
Storm landfall visible-light pictures. Other storms have a satellite picture of the storm at landfall. Again higher resolution is always better.
Non-visible-light storm images. Many storms may have IR, doppler, or other types of meteorological pictures.

Article guidelines

Storm articles

Example articles: Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Floyd

Articles can be created on any storm, provided they are reasonably well-written, comprehensive, and generally have more than two paragraphs of information on it in the body of the article. Articles may be merged by consensus, however.

Naming

Hurricanes should only receive a separate article if they are long enough not to be considered a stub. If there isn't enough to write about, the text can go inside the article for the hurricane season.
When creating a new article for an active storm when it may or may not be appropriate (i.e. a major hurricane currently threatening land), it is generally best to put a request up in the discussion for that hurricane season (e.g. Talk:2006 Atlantic hurricane season) and discuss it with others.
Named hurricanes generally do not have unique names. A storm that has had its name retired may take its name for the main article (e.g. Hurricane Charley, Tropical Storm Allison, Cyclone Tracy); use the prefix appropriate for the tropical cyclone's basin.
Less infamous (i.e. non-retired) hurricanes may have a separate page distinguished by year (e.g. Hurricane Bertha (1996)), only if it must be differentiated (e.g. Tropical Storm Bret (1993) and Hurricane Bret (1999)). If a name was used only once, no year is needed (e.g. Hurricane Rina or Typhoon Zeb).
If a name has been used only once (or is being used for the first time) and is not warranting an article, it should be created as a redirect to that season (e.g. Tropical Storm Peter redirects to 2003 Atlantic hurricane season).
Never hesitate to add a redirect when there is no article for a particular hurricane. Redirects help users to find information if it's "hidden" in a season article, and prevent spurious creation of new articles. This is particularly useful for active hurricanes, as users will otherwise often jump at the chance to write a "new" article about the event. Articles should be redirected to disambiguation pages or (only when there is no ambiguity) to the season article that includes the hurricane. Do not redirect to the season article when a disambiguation page exists, as there is then no way for readers to find the disambiguation.
- This is also helpful for people who wish to provide links to WP for current storms: they can do it once, and the redirect will catch the in-links unless and until a separate page is created. Question: should the redirect go to the season page, or the section thereon for that specific storm?
Unnamed (including numbered) hurricanes (used for older tropical cyclones in all basins) should be distinguished by location, type, and year. The acceptable naming convention is 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. All unnamed hurricanes should always have a year in the name. Again, create redirects wherever necessary to avoid confusion or duplicate articles.

Storm article structure

Use one of the infobox templates above at the head of the article. Other templates may also be useful for active hurricanes.
Each storm article should have a track image if possible. See /Tracks.
Add {{hurricane}} at the top of the talk page of tropical cyclone articles.
Tropical cyclone articles should always link to the season they are a part of (included in the templates). For instance, Hurricane Camille links to the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. A link should also be included to tropical cyclone. These should generally come in the article header.
Make sure the season article also links to the hurricane article. For instance, 2004 Atlantic hurricane season should link to Hurricane Ivan.
Tropical cyclone articles should be categorized by basin (see Category:Tropical cyclones by basin), strength (see Category:Tropical cyclones by strength), season (see Category:Tropical cyclone seasons), and if applicable by region affected (see Category:Tropical cyclones by region).
When there are multiple articles about a particular storm, that storm should have a category identical to its article name; in this case the storm category should be categorized the same way the article is. See Category:Hurricane Katrina or for an example.

Storm disambiguation pages

All tropical cyclones of the same name should be visible through a disambiguation page (e.g. Hurricane Diana (disambiguation)). If none of the disambiguated storms are particularly infamous the main name may be used for the disambiguation (e.g. Hurricane Danielle). The disambiguation should be basin-independent and should cover all storms in all basins with the same name. If in doubt use "Tropical Storm" or "Tropical Cyclone" as the prefix for the disambiguation when multiple basins are involved.
- Exception: a disambiguation page may not be needed when there are just two storms with a certain name and at one takes the main naming space to disambiguate to the other. See for instance Hurricane Andrew.
Disambiguation pages are also categorized by basin (sometimes into multiple basins); see Typhoon Nina for an example. An example basin category is Category:Atlantic hurricanes.
Disambiguation pages are categorized by season as well (see Tropical Storm Hazel for an example). See the child categories of Category:Tropical cyclone seasons for a complete list of season categories.
Storm disambiguation articles (like Hurricane Gordon (disambiguation)) should be in the Category:Tropical cyclone disambiguation pages category. Previously, using {{hurricane disambig}} in the article would accomplish this automatically, but the template is currently deprecated.

Season articles

Seasons are separated by basin. Compare 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, 2005 Pacific hurricane season, 2005 Pacific typhoon season. There are generally seven basins (N Atlantic, NW Pacific, NE Pacific, SW Pacific, N Indian, SW Indian, Australian Region,) but not all may justify articles.
Use {{Infobox hurricane season}} or a variant, as mentioned above.
Add {{hurricane}} at the top of the talk page of season articles.
Link to other appropriate season articles. For instance 2005 Atlantic hurricane season links to the articles for the 2005 NW and NE Pacific seasons and to the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008 N Atlantic season articles.
Season articles should include an overall summary plus a short summary for each storm, with a link to the storm page where appropriate, preferably as part of the lead section. See 2004 Atlantic hurricane season for an example. If a storm's summary becomes too long it may be moved into a separate article.
Categorize the season into a season category; see Category:Tropical cyclone seasons for choices. There is a template to help with this.
Each season should have a track image if possible. See /Tracks.

Hierarchy definition

Tropical cyclones are categorized by basin, strength, season, and region. Seasons are categorized by basin and year.

Tasks

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

02 Dec 2024 – Hurricane Severity Index (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ChrisWx (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

Templates for discussion

02 Dec 2024 – Template:Most intense landfalling Atlantic hurricanes (HSI) (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by ChrisWx (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

22 Oct 2024 – Timeline of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by JCMLuis (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

01 Dec 2024 – Typhoon Ampil (2024) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); start discussion
29 Nov 2024 – Typhoon Surigae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JayTee32 (t · c); start discussion
25 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Prapiroon (2024) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); start discussion
18 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Maria (2024) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); start discussion
24 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Wilma (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 12george1 (t · c); start discussion
09 Apr 2024 – 1873 Atlantic hurricane season (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 12george1 (t · c); start discussion

Good article reassessments

06 Nov 2024 – Hurricane Allen (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by JCMLuis (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

28 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Katrina (1999) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 1999 Atlantic hurricane season by Zzzs (t · c); see discussion
18 Nov 2024 – Hurricane Hernan (2002) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2002 Pacific hurricane season by Zzzs (t · c); see discussion
05 Nov 2024 – Tropical Storm Agatha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Effects of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala by 74.101.118.218 (t · c); see discussion
05 Nov 2024 – Effects of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tropical Storm Agatha by 74.101.118.218 (t · c); see discussion
21 Nov 2024 – Typhoon Rex (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to 1998 Pacific typhoon season by Accordthemusician (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be split

19 Nov 2024 – Hurricane Helene (talk · edit · hist) proposed for splitting by Ponyo (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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Lists

See also Category:Lists of tropical cyclones. Where possible these should be complemented by or replaced by categories.

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