Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 5
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of
."TD's should be bolded, as they are the impetus of every storm, weak or strong."
Storm of the month
directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- 4 hurricanes formed in the . Isaac is currently forecast to affect Newfoundland as an extratropical storm.
- The east Pacific saw three hurricanes and a tropical storm develop. Hurricane John and Hurricane Lane were both major hurricanes which hit Mexico, whilst Hurricane Kristy and Tropical Storm Miriam stayed clear of land. In addition, two tropical depressions formed in the Central Pacific.
- There were 4 typhoons in Typhoon Ioke entered the basin from the east. Shanshan killed at least 9 people in Japan and Typhoon Xangsane, which is still active, killed at least 72 in the Philippines.
- Two tropical cyclones formed in the North Indian Ocean during September. Severe Cyclonic Storm Mukda formed in the Arabian Sea but did not affect land and Tropical Cyclone 05B formed in the Bay of Bengal before making landfall in India. However, the deadliest tropical system of September was a depression in the Bay of Bengal that killed more than 170 people in Bangladesh.
New and improved articles
- New storm articles include: .
- New non-storm articles include: Monsoon trough, List of Pennsylvania hurricanes and Tropical cyclogenesis.
- New Typhoon Saomai (2006) and Tropical Storm Danielle (1992).
Main Page content
- Today's Featured Article on September 29.
- There were no new articles and submit it to Template talk:Did you know.
New articles and improvements wanted
- Pacific typhoon, North Indian tropical cyclone...
- There are many many stub and start class articles on many topics, please improve these!
- How about David Roth (meteorologist)?
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 FA
|
13 | 16 | 15 | 15 |
 A
|
6 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
 GA
|
18 | 24 | 28 | 33 |
| B | 79 | 77 | 79 | 84 |
| Start | 180 | 191 | 200 | 201 |
| Stub | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 |
| Total | 303 | 322 | 337 | 352 |
| percentage ≥Less than B |
62.0 | 61.8 | 61.7 | 60.8 |
Member of the month
The September member of the month is
Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season
.