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WikiProject Weather/General meteorology task force

Shortcuts	WP:METEO, WP:WPMET
Categories	WikiProject Meteorology, Meteorology
Portals	Weather  Tropical cyclones
Wikimedia Commons	Meteorology
Parent project(s)	Weather
Project banner template	((WikiProject Weather|general-meteorology-task-force=yes))
Userboxes	((User Meteorology)) ((User WP Meteorology))
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/General meteorology task force/Assessment
Popular pages	Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/General meteorology task force/Popular pages

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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General meteorology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	1		3			4
FM					8	8
GA	6	13	21	6		46
B	4	9	16	22		51
C	5	29	54	39		127
Start	1	20	53	113		187
Stub		4	19	122		145
List	1	5	5	28		39
Category					37	37
Portal	1					1
Project					2	2
Redirect		1	1	4	12	18
Template					2	2
Assessed	19	81	172	334	61	667
Total	19	81	172	334	61	667
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,558			Ω = 4.57

WikiProject on Meteorology and Weather Events

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.

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.

• 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.

• Portal:Earth sciences
• Portal:Tropical cyclones
• Portal:Weather

Member userboxes

Code	Result
((Template:User WP Meteorology))	This user actively participates in WikiProject Meteorology	Usage
((Template:User Meteorology))	This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology.	Usage

Active members

Bot

In 2013, WxBot was created to assist the project and its descendant projects. As the bot runs through AutoWikiBrowser, only tasks that can be performed in AWB can be performed by the bot. Click here to make a request for the bot to perform a task.

Inactive participants

Former members

• Mr.Taka Blocked indefinitely -RunningOnBrains 17:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• RaccoonFox Account indefinitely blocked, compromised. Now RingtailedFox. Jonathan 02:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Stormtracker94 AKA User:Red Thunder. Retired per user page.-RunningOnBrains 02:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Perseus, Son of Zeus Account blocked indefinitely
• Haloweatherguy Account blocked indefinitely
• All2341 Globally blocked account. Sockpuppet of Perseus, Son of Zeus.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  22:17, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 ((subst:The Meteorology Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~)). For the alternate version, which is the Barnstar 1.0 version, you can use ((subst:The Meteorology Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~|2=alt))

		The Meteorology Barnstar
		(({1))}

		The Meteorology Barnstar
		(({1))}

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

Article alerts

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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 ((commons)) 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

Core articles

Article	Need	Rationale	Links	Quality	Comments
Meteorology	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help
Climatology	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help
Atmospheric sciences	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	Start	Needs a bit more work
Weather	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Climate	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Climate change (general concept)	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	B	Starting to get there
Cloud	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Need help (particularly inline references)
Earth's atmosphere	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Need help (particularly inline references)
Precipitation (meteorology)	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Global warming	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	FA	Done
Weather forecasting	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	GA	Good article
Atmospheric physics	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help
Surface weather analysis	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	FA	Done
Flood	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs assessment after justaxn edits of July 2015
Drought	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	Start	Needs help
Heat wave	High	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	???	C	Needs help

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:
  • ((WikiProject Weather|thunderstorms-and-tornadoes-task-force=yes)) for tornadoes and related events
  • ((WikiProject Weather|epac-task-force=yes|atl-task-force=yes|tropical-cyclones-project=yes)) for hurricanes or tropical cyclones
  • ((WikiProject Weather|non-tropical-storms-task-force|=yes)) for all extra-tropical storms
  • ((WikiProject Meteorology|temp_extremes=yes)) for extreme temperatures
  • ((WikiProject Weather|floods-task-force=yes)) for flood events
  • ((WikiProject Weather|droughts-and-wildfires-task-force=yes)) for droughts and fire events
  • ((WikiProject Weather|met-data-task-force=yes)) for weather data and instrumentation
  • ((WikiProject Meteorology)) for other articles covered by this Wikiproject which do not fall into the above categories

Userboxes

Code	Result
((Template:User interest weather))	This user is interested in weather	Usage
((Template:User interest meteorology))	This user is interested in meteorology	Usage
((Template:User WP Meteorology))	This user actively participates in WikiProject Meteorology	Usage
((Template:User Meteorology))	This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology.	Usage

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the ((WikiProject Meteorology)) project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class meteorology articles)		FA
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class meteorology articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class meteorology articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class meteorology articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class meteorology articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class meteorology articles)		Stub

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the ((WikiProject Meteorology)) project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Categories

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page.

Lists

• List of cloud types
• List of meteorological phenomena
• List of meteorology institutions
• List of SPC High Risk days
• List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of European tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of Asian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of Southern Hemisphere tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
  • List of tornado-related deaths at schools
  • List of tornadoes striking downtown areas
  • List of tornado records
  • List of New York hurricanes
• List of weather-related fatalities in the United States
• History of tropical cyclone spawned tornadoes

Articles

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

New articles related to meteorology

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Article requests

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

• Category:Articles needing attention
• WikiProject Cleanup Listings

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have been either fixed or tagged.