User:Hurricane Jacob
 | This user participates in WikiProject Tropical cyclones. |
Hello there, and welcome to my page!
I'm glad you stopped by. When time allows, I enjoy creating and sharing tracks of cyclones, with a particular focus on winter storms.
Pre-Wikipedia cyclone tracking history
[edit source]Beyond editing, I’ve been a passionate weather watcher for many years and have gained quite a bit of experience tracking global patterns. My earliest memories of following storms go back to watching cyclones on my radar in the South Pacific Ocean.
I started out creating 'fictional' Atlantic hurricane seasons to practice track-making. In the early days, I used Microsoft Paint which was a bit of a challenge for making clean lines! Since then, I’ve upgraded my track-making significantly, moving from Microsoft Paint to Paint 3D, and after I joined Wikipedia to hypotrack and lastly to TrackGen, which is the primary tool I use for my work today.
My history in Wikipedia
[edit source]I’ve been a long-time reader of Wikipedia, but I finally decided to join the community on October 11, 2024.
I made my first edit on July 15, 2025, adding season summary maps to the Tropical cyclones in 2025 article. I’m a visual learner, so I picked up the ropes by diving straight into the source code of the articles I was working on. Since then, I’ve enjoyed uploading images, fixing typos, and learning the technical side of things like mastering links, tropical cyclone and winter storm infoboxes, and most recently, horizontal timelines!
I had to take a brief hiatus from September to November 2025 due to some health issues which also caused my slowing activity starting at Late February, but I’m happy to be back and contributing again.
My longest edit streak
[edit source]My longest edit streak lasted for 119 days, starting on December 29, 2025 and ended on March 29, 2026.
Milestones
[edit source]Not all of these milestones are included above.
October 2024: Created my account after years of reading.
July 15, 2025: First edit! (Added maps to Tropical cyclones in 2025).
July 19, 2025: Became an autoconfirmed user and made my tenth edit.
July 20, 2025: First Barnstar.
Late July 2025: Learned the essentials of links and infoboxes.
July 31, 2025: My first thank.
August 8, 2025: I made my hundredth edit.
August 9, 2025: My username was changed.
Dec 31, 2025: Celebrated the New Year by learning how to edit horizontal timelines!
Jan 28, 2026: Became an extended confirmed user.
Apr 25, 2026: I made my thousandth edit.
Username
[edit source]You might notice my username has evolved, too! I originally signed up as Sim Twin Jacob, but later changed it to Hurricane Jacob. While I'm actually most fascinated by winter storms, 'Hurricane' just felt like the right fit for my identity here. My deep interest in meteorology really took off in 2021 when I saw Hurricanes Elsa, Grace, Ida and Sam, and I’ve been hooked on tracking major weather events ever since.
Atlantic & East Pacific hurricane seasons
[edit source]2026
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Cyclone tracks
[edit source]See the tracks here.
Satellite Photos
[edit source]Below are satellite photos from NASA that I uploaded, these are not a work of mine, these are from NASA.
Barnstars
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| Hurricane Jacob, you truly deserve this for all your hard work in creating numerous Winter Storm Tracks 😊 SimTwinBrien (talk) 20:34, 20 July 2025 (UTC) |
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The Graphic Designer's Barnstar |
| For your amazing work with making tropical cyclone and winter storm track maps. :) BlueHypercane761 🌀 (talk) 09:20, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |