Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/General meteorology task force

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Meteorology. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title
WikiProject on Meteorology and Weather Events

Scope
The purpose of the Meteorology and Weather Events project is a large-scale initiative that simplifies and standardizes pages for all weather events, improves the information available for past events and works to provide better information for all future events. In addition, the project also improves and simplifies pages for general meteorology.

Weather events include tropical cyclones (covered in a separate project), tornadoes (also covered in a separate project), floods, wind storms and winter storms (also covered in a separate project), droughts, extreme heat/cold and lightning events. Historical events involving or caused by these phenomena may also be included.

Meteorology includes atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, weather observation stations and networks, weather instrumentation and equipment, biographical articles on notable meteorologists, weather research projects, weather prediction and modeling, and phenomena related to every-day weather.

Related topics in climatology, geology and space science may also fall under the scope of this vast project.

Goals

 * 1) Standardize all pages for weather events, somewhat modeled after the tropical cyclone pages.
 * 2) Improve the pages for weather features and make more real-world examples.
 * 3) Learn more for historical weather events, and provide more information for current weather systems.

Each individual event type also forms a subproject. Ultimately this could be a parent of each different project.

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Climate
 * WikiProject Climate change

Parentage

 * WikiProject Science

Descendants

 * WikiProject Non-tropical storms
 * WikiProject Severe weather
 * WikiProject Tropical cyclones
 * WikiProject UK Storms (defunct; merged into WikiProject Non-tropical storms)

Sub-Projects
The project is divided into several subproject sections:


 * 1) Forecasting and warnings
 * 2) Hurricanes/tropical cyclones (This currently operates as a separate project, see: WikiProject Tropical cyclones)
 * 3) Non-tropical/winter storms (This currently operates as a separate sub-project, see: WikiProject Weather/Non-tropical storms task force)
 * 4) Severe weather (This is now a descendant project, see: WikiProject Severe weather)
 * 5) Floods (see: WikiProject Weather/Floods task force)
 * 6) Droughts and fire events (see: WikiProject Weather/Droughts and wildfires task force)
 * 7) Extremes in temperature
 * 8) Weather data and instrumentation (see: WikiProject Weather/Meteorological instruments and data task force)
 * 9) General meteorology (essentially anything which does not fall into above categories)

Currently, all but the tropical cyclones, severe weather, and non-tropical storms projects fall into the scope of the general meteorology project. Our aim for the future is to have some or all of these become descendant, separate WikiProjects, just as the tropical cyclone and severe weather projects currently are.

Related Wikiportals

 * Portal:Earth sciences
 * Portal:Tropical cyclones
 * Portal:Weather

Active members
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Inactive participants

 * Hurricanehink
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Former members

 * Mr.Taka Blocked indefinitely - Running On  Brains  17:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * RaccoonFox Account indefinitely blocked, compromised. Now RingtailedFox.  Jo n a  t h an   02:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Stormtracker94 AKA User:Red Thunder. Retired per user page.- Running On  Brains  02:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Perseus, Son of Zeus Account blocked indefinitely
 * Haloweatherguy Account blocked indefinitely
 * All2341 Globally blocked account. Sockpuppet of . &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 22:17, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Awards
There are two awards, all of which are barnstars. They can be awarded to Wikipedians who outstandingly contributed to the general weather or meteorology-related articles. For the Barnstar 2.0 (and the default one), you can use ''' Put your message here. ~ . For the alternate version, which is the Barnstar 1.0 version, you can use  Put your message here. ~ '''

Newsletters
Each daughter WikiProject of WikiProject Meteorology has its own newsletter. They are:
 * The Hurricane Herald - WikiProject Tropical cyclones
 * The Frozen Times - WikiProject Non-tropical storms
 * The Tornado Tribune - WikiProject Severe weather

Format for articles

 * Lead section (with infobox if applicable)
 * Main body
 * For a weather event, this should include a summary of events leading up to, during, and after the event. It should also emphasize its impact and significance in the time that it occurred. 
 * For a type of weather, phenomenon, or theory, this should include a history of its observation, a description of the phenomenon, and its significance. 
 * For weather instrumentation or equipment, this should include a brief history of its invention, along with its applications and uses. 
 * For a biographical article, this should include a brief overview of the person's life, with an in-depth look at their contributions to meteorology. 
 * See also
 * This should include links (within wikipedia) to related phenomena, events, people, or other articles pertinent to the subject.
 * References
 * External Links

Note on units: All quantities should be expressed in both imperial units and metric units, regardless of the affected area. The primary measurements used in this project are imperial units, although primary-metric can be used in events that only affect regions that use only the metric system (i.e. Canada, Mexico, most of Europe). For example, to show winds of 50 mph, it should be listed as "50 mph (80 km/h)" in most circumstances. Rounding should be done to reasonable levels.

Note on galleries: It is not desirable to have an image gallery in a main article. However, linking to a gallery on Wikimedia commons using Your article is very helpful. To upload a file to the Commons, click here (you must create/have a commons account to do this). For instructions on creating a commons gallery, see here.

Tornado outbreak format

Templates
See also Category:Meteorology templates

Infoboxes

 * Infobox cloud for cloud types
 * Infobox flood for flood events
 * Infobox tropical cyclone for tropical cyclones (aka hurricanes, typhoons)
 * Infobox storm for non-tropical cyclones, snow/winter storms
 * Infobox tornado outbreak provides a template for brief information at the top of the page for tornado outbreaks, including the date
 * Infobox tornado provides the same information for events involving a single tornado
 * Infobox wildfire for wildfires

Stub templates

 * Climate-stub and the associated stub category Category:Atmospheric science stubs
 * This template should be added to the end of stub articles which fall under the category of general meteorology or climatology.


 * Climate-bio-stub and the associated stub category Category:Atmospheric scientist stubs
 * This template should be added to the end of stub articles which are biographies of a meteorologist or a climatologist.


 * Weather-stub and the associated stub category Category:Weather event stubs
 * This template should be added only to the end of stub articles which describe a specific historical weather event.

Data templates

 * Tornado Chart for tornado events to show the number of tornadoes produced and their intensity
 * Weather box provides a standard template for monthly and yearly temperature (°F & °C) and precipitation (in & cm/mm) averages for a specified location such as a city. Has a provision for referencing the source data and the date acquired. As well as automatic unit conversion, so an editor only needs to enter one set of values (if desired) and the other measurement system's units will be convert to and displayed.

Talk page templates

 * One of the following templates should be included at the top of each of the talk pages of articles covered by this wikiproject:
 * for tornadoes and related events
 * for hurricanes or tropical cyclones
 * for all extra-tropical storms
 * for extreme temperatures
 * for flood events
 * for droughts and fire events
 * for weather data and instrumentation
 * WikiProject Meteorology for other articles covered by this Wikiproject which do not fall into the above categories

Subpages

 * List of.

Lists
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General topics

 * 1)  Meteorology
 * 2)  Climate
 * 3)  Weather forecasting
 * 4)  Extreme weather
 * 5)  Storm
 * 6)  Atmospheric pressure
 * 7)  Low pressure area
 * 8)  High pressure area
 * 9)  Anticyclone
 * 10)  Ridge (meteorology)
 * 11)  Trough (meteorology)
 * 12)  Block (meteorology)

Hurricanes/tropical cyclones

 * See related WikiProject above

Non-tropical cyclones/winter storms

 * See related WikiProject above

Tornadoes and related events

 * 1)  Tornado

Floods

 * 1)  Flood
 * 2)  Flash flood

Droughts

 * 1)  Drought
 * 2)  Wildfire

Extreme heat/cold

 * 1)  Heat wave
 * 2)  Cold wave

Other weather events

 * 1)  Hailstorm

Pages needing attention

 * Article requests