Portal talk:Tropical cyclones

Subpages: Selected article, Selected picture, Anniversaries, Active tropical cyclones

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Perhaps we should try to get this portal featured? Well maintained is to be determined, BTW. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 19:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I think that we have a great chance. It's going to become very-well maintained after the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season starts, and interest picks up again. I'd suggest nominating it, but looking at Portal:Cricket as an example of what the portal should be. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 05:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I was a bit bold and added a new color scheme. The only thing that we're "missing" is an article tree, like Portal:Weather/Articles, but we're fine outside of that. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 00:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I think the categories provide a perfectly satisfactory article tree. Jdorje 01:07, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

So, do you want to try to make it the first Featured science portal? Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 21:26, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Let us try! Siva1979^{Talk to me} 19:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

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File:2019 Atlantic hurricane season summary map.png

Could someone update this map with the track of subtropical Storm Andrea?

Pierre cb (talk) 16:16, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

The WPTC project talk page would probably be a better place for this request (or the talk page of one of the users who regularly generate track maps, like Cyclonebiskit). This portal may be commonly used, but not everyone will check this talk page. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 16:27, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. Pierre cb (talk) 19:58, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Proposal to delete all portals

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 15:19, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal updating

I plan on updating, upgrading and modernizing this portal a bit. Since two users are listed as portal maintainers, LightandDark2000 and Master of Time, pinging both to here for notification, ideas, etc. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:26, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. My plan is to add more pages for the selected articles and images in the future, but I don't have anything planned beyond that at the moment. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 03:28, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Additional articles can be found using the tables below.

Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	14	84	60			161
FL	1	4	32	43			80
FM					21		21
A		2	1				3
GA	10	65	400	648			1,123
B	11	32	63	63		1	170
C	10	103	258	287		2	660
Start	2	58	332	406		5	803
Stub		2	53	83			138
List		6	25	87	594	413	1,125
Category					956		956
Disambig					68		68
File					8		8
Portal					204		204
Project					97		97
Redirect		3	21	79	105		208
Template					470		470
NA					4		4
Other					3		3
Assessed	37	289	1,269	1,756	2,530	421	6,302
Total	37	289	1,269	1,756	2,530	421	6,302
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,242			Ω = 3.35

Tropical cyclone season pages by quality
Quality
	Total
Assessed	0
Total	0

@LightandDark2000: I'm planning on adding separate Selected named hurricane, Selected article and Selected hurricane season sections. There are many high quality articles to choose from. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:30, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

I will begin. Master of Time, who I pinged here and notified on their talk page about this thread, hasn't really edited much in 2021 (See the user's contributions from January 1 to June 30, 2021), and has not edited in Portal namespace since November 2019 (see contributions in Portal namespace). With only two edits in Portal namespace in 2019, and only a handful in 2018, it seems that it would be fair to remove them from being listed as a portal maintainer at this time. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:52, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Question about reference

Hi:

Could someone give me a reference about the "official" start as end of the 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. It is said in the text: 15 November 2024 to 30 April 2025, with the exception for Mauritius and the Seychelles, for which it will end on 15 May 2025. However, I could not find a weblink to corroborate that.

Pierre cb (talk) 04:36, 16 November 2024 (UTC)