Template talk:Leading tropical cyclones

message: Regarding the comments here, the reason I made the template is to answer the somewhat ambiguous question of what was the strongest storm, and where (thank you fact police for checking on things). A secondary interest is to observe development trends: almost all of the members of this list fall within the last 9 years of development, and 3 in the past 11 months. At this point, I would surmise the next step would be to verify nothing older beats whats already been verified, and fill in missing regional gaps (I recall hearing of a hurricane forming south of Alaska, but cannot find it). Cwolfsheep 05:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks 

message: I've changed the strongest cyclone to Cyclone Inigo. Cyclone Monica's official lowest pressure from BoM was 905 hPa, but Inigo's lowest pressure was 900 hPa. If you're in doubt, please see Gary Padgett's track data in australiansevereweather.com. If you find another cyclone with a lower pressure than Inigo's, feel free to change it! RaNdOm26 09:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uhm, Padgett uses JTWC data. Unless BOM confirms Inigo was stronger than Monica, it should say Monica. – Chacor 09:50, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I retract that; BOM says "Tropical Cyclone Inigo rapidly intensified as it moved to the southwest and reached Category 5 intensity on the 4th when the estimated central pressure was 900hPa with wind gusts to 320km/h." – Chacor 09:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, Padgett does in fact use BoM data. See the intro for "NORTHWEST AUSTRALIA/SOUTHEAST INDIAN OCEAN (AUW) - Longitude 90E to 135E" in here . RaNdOm26 09:57, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia 

message: Shouldn't the lowest pressure in the North Indian be Typhoon Gay (1989) with 898 mbar? That's much lower than <912 mbar. But I just want to make sure. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 17:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Where did you obtain the pressure reading from???? RaNdOm26 08:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Typhoon Gay article. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 23:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: North Indian

message: Currently, the basins are ordered alphabetically. With the recent addition of lowest pressures, would it be better for the order to be based on the pressure of the respective most powerful storms? - SpLoT // 04:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order 

message: The Bay Of Bengal and Arrabian Sea are two different bodies of water that make up the same basin, so I don't think there should be a seperate strongest storm for the Arrabian Sea and Bay Of Bengal. Does anyone else agree with this? Rye998 (talk) 00:39, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I dunno, it doesn't matter terribly. Technically they should probably be lumped together, but I like the symmetry of having 9. --Hurricanehink (talk) 00:53, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

text: There, all done. I kept it symmetric, like you wanted, and the strongest NIO storm is there instead of the strongest BOB/AR Sea storms. Do you still like it, Hink? Or does anyone else like it? I personally like it the way it is, it appears much better. Rye998 (talk) 21:11, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, not bad. Hurricanehink (talk) 01:17, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

text: I strongly disagree with excluding the Arabian Sea. Although it is technically part of the Northern Indian Ocean basin, the IMD gives systems in that area a separate identifier, unlike in Australia where all storms in the region have the identifier "U". The JTWC also follows this, using "A" and "B" to classify systems in the respective bodies of water. This holds true for all other basins (except Western Pacific because the JMA doesn't use identifiers). Each region is given a specific letter. Atlantic (L), Southern Atlantic (Q), Eastern Pacific (E), Central Pacific (C), Western Pacific (W), Bay of Bengal (BoB/B), Arabian Sea (ARB/A), South-west Indian Ocean (R), Australia (U) and Southern Pacific (F). Cyclonebiskit (talk) 17:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: But even though the Arabian sea isn't given the same numbers for depressions, the Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal use the same names from the same list. If Gonu had formed in the Bay of Bengal, it still would have been named Gonu. By contrast, however, the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific use different numbers with their storms and are named accordingly as well. If a storm formes in the Eastern Pacific and becomes named there, it keeps it's name in the Central Pacific basin as well. If a storm forms in the CPac, it is given a Hawaian name instead of one of the NHC's names. The reason why I support merging the two basins into "North Indian Ocean" is because the WMO does not define the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal as seperate tropical cyclone basins, and the IMD doesn't either. They may not have the same numbers when they are depressions, but named storms in both seas share the same naming list. They may not be given the same number when they are depressions, but if they would have the same name in either sea, then they aren't two completly different basins. If they were seperate, we would have 60 or so seperate articles on each season. As I mentioned above, there is no such thing as a "2010 Bay of Bengal Cyclone season" or a "2010 Arabian Sea cyclone season" because they share the same naming list from the same RSMC. They may have different numbers, but they don't have different names. Because of that, I believe it's rather unnecesary to make a strongest storm for each individual sea. Australia is split into 5 seperate RSMC's, but we group them into one basin. Because the WMO doesn't define them as seperate basins we shouldn't either. Rye998 (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, I agree with that rationale. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk)  22:23, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

text: And one more thing, Cyclonebiskit, you even admitted in the straw poll of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season talk page "I can't go against what the WMO states. If they group the basins together, so do we." Why would you just contradict yourself here in that case, and with a basin that shares the same naming list over two seas? The CPac and EPac have their own naming lists and you thought they should be together, so why would you disagree with this particular case, with different numbers but the same names? Rye998 (talk) 00:03, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Strongest ''North Indian Ocean'' storm