== Tropical cyclones ==
== Tropical cyclones ==
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All categories of [[tropical cyclone intensity scales]] should include a non-breaking space within. Numerical categories of [[tropical cyclone intensity scales]], such as those of the [[Saffir–Simpson scale]], should be used to describe a tropical cyclone.
All categories of [[tropical cyclone intensity scales]] should include a non-breaking space within. Numerical categories of [[tropical cyclone intensity scales]], such as those of the [[Saffir–Simpson scale]], should be used to describe a tropical cyclone.
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Style guide for weather events
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This is a draft working towards a proposal for adoption as a Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal must not be taken to represent consensus, but is still in development and under discussion, and has not yet reached the process of gathering consensus for adoption. Thus references or links to this page should not describe it as policy, guideline, nor yet even as a proposal. |
This page contains an in-depth guide to writing clear, informative, encyclopedic, and attractive articles on weather events. This guide complements the general Manual of Style.
Usually, MOS:ENGVAR and MOS:DATEVAR applies. If a specific English-speaking nation has a connection to a weather event, such as when all affected nations use a common format, that event’s article should use the nation’s English variety and date format.
All categories of tropical cyclone intensity scales should include a non-breaking space within. Numerical categories of tropical cyclone intensity scales, such as those of the Saffir–Simpson scale, should be used to describe a tropical cyclone. Intensity descriptors are to be treated as proper adjectives, not as nouns.
Hurricane Whitney made landfall as a Category 5.
Hurricane Whitney made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane.- Hurricane Whitney made landfall at Category 5 strength.
Articles should typically include Level 2 headings for the storm’s meteorological history, preparations, impact, and aftermath, in chronological order. Articles with extensive coverage should use separate headings for each section. If content is limited, its effects–preparations, impact, and aftermath–can be condensed into one heading.
Meteorological history
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This section should include Template:Storm path using the map colors approved in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather/Colour discussions#Modification whenever possible. Maps that do not use these colors are tagged with Category:Pages using obsolete storm path colors. The template is typically positioned on the left.
Any material relating to climate change belongs here, often separated into a subsection.
Preparations and impact
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The Preparations section and Impact section describes actions taken prior to a storm’s approach and what the storm did. The section will likely need to be separated into several subsections on each of the different regions. The regions should be ordered generally in the order that they were impacted. Any regions that would consist of a small paragraph should be merged into a subsection at the end entitled elsewhere or other states if a subsection on the United States has its own subsections.
Ideally, these two should be independent, with impacts following preparations, but if the two sections are not long enough to be separate, they can be unified. In this case, impacts should still follow preparations, but sorted within each regions’ subsection.
The preparations should lead with watches and warnings issued for a given region.
This section discusses the recovery process of a tropical cyclone.
Articles with a see also section should include links to related articles. Links to stand-alone lists are preferred, as they help reduce overcrowding and minimize confusion over connections. As with other articles, see also sections are not required. See also sections that consistently attract controversy and unproductive edits may be removed. These sections should be ordered as follows:
- Weather of (year)
- Tropical cyclones in (year)
- Other storms named Y[α]
- List of hurricanes in (location)
- ^ If not already done as a hatnote for tropical cyclones without a disambiguator
