Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hurricane Irene crossing the Bahamas

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Sep 2011 at 08:21:27 (UTC)

 
Original - Hurricane Irene, as a Category 3 hurricane, crossing the Bahamas. Local meteorologists recorded wind gusts as high as 140 mph (225 km/h).
Reason
High EV as a current or recent event, large image, shows Irene as a powerful swirl of clouds
Articles in which this image appears
Hurricane Irene (2011)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Natural_phenomena/Weather
Creator
NASA, MODIS Rapid Response System
FWIW, it's not really a rule to wait a week, just a suggestion so people don't nominate pictures that get removed from the articles before the voting period is over.--RDBury (talk) 11:01, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - not an especially impressive way of illustrating this most recent storm event. It's not an especially well-defined system, and barring unusual visual appeal with these kinds of illustrations, it's just another satellite image among thousands of others taken every year. I would rather find a high-quality picture of damage from NC or VT or another relevant area. Also, FWIW, I think this shot is a bit misleading and lacking in educational value. At face value, it looks like a symmetrical, powerful hurricane with a nice eye and everything, but a closer look reveals several structural impediments preventing the storm from intensifying: limited outflow on the western semicircle, outflow boundaries on the NW quad, and dry air being entrained into the CDO. If it were used to illustrate these issues with an explanation of how they affect tropical systems, then I would be more willing to support. However, it seems to be used in a misleading fashion at the moment. Juliancolton (talk) 15:18, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]