Talk:Tropical Storm Allison/Archive 1

message: What is it that makes the List 5 (1983-1989-1995-2001-2007...) "A" names such attractive targets to Houston? Except for Allison (1995), all of them have been destructive there...and what were thinking in choosing Andrea as a replacement name, as it already has notority there! It's like she is already planning a rampage there for mid-2007... CrazyC83 16:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List 5 "A" name and Houston 

message: copyedit, references Jdorje 23:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A major thing needed is impact outside of Texas. Hurricanehink 19:24, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dropped it to Start, for now. This will be my next personal project. Hurricanehink 00:29, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Todo 

message: Why is the cost listed in 1995 dollars? Should that be 2005 dollars or 2001 dollars? —Cuiviénen (Cuivië) 22:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1995 Dollars? 

message: Can we have a deaths by region (state/county?) table?  Were all the deaths in Houston, or all over Texas, or all over the south? — jdorje (talk) 05:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How bout death and damage rates for New England? Cyclone1 18:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Acording to this site, Allison caused $126,000 in damage in Alabama, $112,000 in Connecticut, $20 million in Florida, $1.3+ million in Georgia, $27 million in Louisiana, $10,000 in Maryland, $400,000 in Massachusettes, $1.3 million in Mississippi, unknown in New York, $200,000+ in North Carolina, $35 million in Pensylvania, and $5.1 billion in Texas. There's probably some more in there but that's all I got on the damage. The NHC report has deaths state by state. Hurricanehink 02:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deaths 

message: Here's some MODIS imagery of Allison.
*Allison at peak strength
*Allison over the MS/AL border
*Allison over SC
They might be potentially useful for the article, personally I favor true color visible images over false color ones.--Nilfanion (talk) 10:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good pictures. The one over south Carolina would definetly replace the current NC one, though I'm not sure about the others. I love the pic with the eyewall. Also, the MODIS one of the peak intensity is awesome, but it would be hard to get a big picture from it. No idea how to fix the Texas ones. Maybe someone could brighten them up with photoshop? Hurricanehink (talk) 14:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Photoshopping is definitely the solution to the rainfall pics, thicken the lines maybe?. Agree on the eyewall pic, three visible light images is excessive, if theres more it should be IR/Radar (like that one). As for the peak strength images, the MODIS one actually has a slightly larger image of Allison than the infobox one, cropping that image will sort that.--Nilfanion (talk) 14:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, you're right about the peak pic. On the right is a cropped version of the peak pic. That could be better than the existing one. This doesn't have the NOAA symbol, and gives a wider view. It might have to be cropped a bit more, but that one is probably better than the existing one. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Err, maybe not. Seeing it small like that makes me not so sure. It could go either way. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, its hard to judge; the top left could be removed which would improve the image a bit. The differences are subtle enough, either image works doesnt it?--Nilfanion (talk) 20:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

text: There is talk of providing the rainfall images on a white background.  Would that be helpful?  Thegreatdr 01:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if changing the background to white might make a difference for how the images are utilised here, depends how else the colors get adjusted (Personally I like the black background in the HPC reports). The problem when the images are made into thumbnails (as in the TC articles) they become less useful. I can think of two things which could help with the images as they are used here: Using different background colors for land and sea, is one - a subtle difference is all that would be needed. The other is making the data "thicker". Making the lines thicker would lose detail in the HPC report which isn't good for your real purpose, but if instead of using contours to represent the data you use solid areas instead that might work.--Nilfanion (talk) 09:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Contours are an idea.  There are two ways they can be drawn.  One is time consuming and would be virtually exact; the other simple and paint over a grid, which wouldn't be able to depict localized maxima.  I'll consider the more exacting method on a couple of storms and see how they turn out.  Thegreatdr 22:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images