User talk:Boort

Welcome!

Hello, Boort, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! - Hephaestos|§ 21:13, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TWO and More

Hey Boort,

Thanks for the message. The "TWO" is just shorthand for "Tropical Weather Outlook", one of the more important 6-hourly products the National Hurricane Center issues. Chances are you've seen it: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIATWOAT.shtml

Thanks for the kind words on the research page too, been a heck of a lot of work but at least now it's just about done and it's there as a resource for whoever wants to see it :D

--Andy -- The Great Zo 03:03, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I got most of my info on the storms from Unisys, which has neatly archived all of the Best Track data from 1851 on (with maps) as well as the Advisory data from 1995 on. Here's a link: http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/index.html . Alternatively, data from the NHC site itself has helped as well, but most of my research has come from combing through the Unisys pages, which have more data than I know what to do with.

I moved this pack of comments from his user page to the discussion page. -- RattleMan 06:31, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Irene

You can leave a note on my user talk page. As for pressure, it just seems like a little too much info. Especially for a weak storm like Irene. In 2004, we never mentioned pressure, and no one minded. The current section is just that - to tell people who might be using Wikipedia for this kind of info what's going on. They don't care about the pressure, they care about where it is, when it's getting there, and how strong it is. This may just be my personal opinion, but it's how most of these have been done in the past. Mentioning pressure might be reasonable - for a cat 4 or cat 5. For a TS, it's redundant information. 99% of people have no clue what it means. --Golbez 21:04, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Yep, this is the best way to communicate. :) I can see why you would be interested in the pressure, but at some point, you end up putting too much info in. We only note things like size of the storm, pressure, etc. when they are particularly notable (like if it's a 1200 mile wide storm, or if the pressure dropped 30 mb in two hours). (And the scary thing is, I think both of those have happened) We cant to keep the section clean and informative, with a minimum of excess. --Golbez 21:27, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Aha, so THAT'S where the location comes from. I was wondering where people were getting the "x miles from cabo" stuff. OK, yeah, that's a lot better than the coordinates. We don't need to update those storms every six hours, again, they're just fishspinners. You have a good point. :) --Golbez 21:36, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

That's stuff like El Nino, La Nina, yes? It would be quite useful, yes. Put somewhere in formation or something. I dunno. --Golbez 08:00, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

PM/p.m.

Yes, and I will be referting Atlantic as well. As for "proper style", this has nothing to do with what the NHC says - see 12-hour clock, which suggests p.m. as an afterthought: "The initialisms "am" and "pm" are variously written in small capitals (as here), uppercase letters ("AM" and "PM"), or lowercase letters ("am" and "pm"). Additionally, some styles use periods (full stops), especially in combination with lowercase letters (thus "a.m." and "p.m.")." And the readability aspect - just as someone removed half of the bullets from that section, so should extraneous periods. They simply aren't needed, especially in the timeline. --Golbez 04:14, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

As for the CDT/EDT/UTC thing, yeah, we follow what the NHC does there, but also for local folks. A lot of people - probably far too many - read our articles for the latest info on the storm and what to do, so we need to give a time that's meaningful to them. --Golbez 00:54, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Comma usage

Regarding your question on whether to use a comma before the last object in a list, it is correct either way. I prefer to have a comma there, while most people I know prefer not to. It's personal preference, and either way is correct. bob rulz 05:39, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Hurricane Rita

Someone else on Wikipedia found a website operated by The Ohio State University which provides the updates 10-15 minutes before the NHC website updates. [1] Click on the most recently modified files for the latest advisories.

The filenames are all in code so it might take a while to undertand it. --tomf688^{talk} 21:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I Wish to Apologize and Make Peace

I'd like to apologize for any wrong I have done to you in the past. There is no reason for us to be hostile towards each other. The reason I got so mad at you was because of that first post you left on my talk page: [2]. I didn't understand what I did to make you so angry as to make such a post on my talk page (my deletion of sections from the talk page was actually me moving them to the archive page, I failed to make an edit summery the first few times, perhaps that's what set you off). I also did not appreciate how you used my age to make me feel inferior to you (at least that's how I took it). When I asked you why, all you did was delete my posts from your talk page without a word in reply. These are all reasons why my anger escalated to an unreasonable point. I have no vendetta against you. Holderca's original complaint brought my anger back impulsively and I carried it too far. I don't like fights and animosity. I'd like to seek peace. Can you forgive me for any and all wrongs I've done to you? Can we carry on without anger or hate towards one another? I'd very much appreciate it if you would reply to this message. Thank you. Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 04:28, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:04, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]