User talk:FultonZA22

Regional specialised meteorological centres
Hello there! I haven't seen you around before. Thank you for your recent edits to the 2019 Pacific typhoon season article. I just wanted to let you know about a convention that we have here in WikiProject Tropical Cyclones that you don't appear to be familiar with yet. Each tropical cyclone basin is monitored by one official meteorological agency, known as a regional specialised meteorological centre, or RSMC for short. For the Western Pacific tropical cyclone region, the RSMC is the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). As the JMA is the RSMC for the basin, the convention is to use their published information (i.e. wind speeds and pressures) in Wikipedia articles. This applies to all basins, not just this one. I saw that you edited the 2019 Pacific typhoon season article to indicate that Typhoon Hagibis's minimum pressure was 908 hPa. However, this value was estimated by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), which is not the official RSMC for the basin. As such, we cannot use their pressure value. We must only use what we are given by the JMA for pressure, which in this case is 915 hPa. I hope all of this makes sense. Please let me know if you have any questions. ChocolateTrain (talk) 16:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)