Talk:2006 Pacific typhoon season/Archive 1

message: Wow, I think this is one of the most inactive typhoon seasons in recent history (ever?). What's the record inactivity? NSLE 10:13, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out the 1998 season. It had the latest start in WPAC history. I wonder if the Atlantic will beat the WPAC (named-storms) this year? -- RattleMan 10:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that different from the 2000 Pacific typhoon season yet. —Cuiviénen 21:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slow season 

message: I found a site with a picture of Agaton, but I don't know if it's useable. 
Jake52 My talk 04:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Always assume it's copyrighted unless it's an NOAA or NRL image. NSLE 08:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The solution is simple enough - get the original NASA image (located here orhere) and do the appropriate cropping of the image to show the storm (NASA=PD).--Nilfanion (talk) 11:56, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agaton Picture 

message: I was wondering if the intensities could be more consistent? Because for Chanchu, it is from NRL, Jelawat from JMA, and so on... could someone kindly, for the good of wikipedia and more clarity, dive themselves into say, http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/archive/06051506 and dig out information from one site? Another reason for this is that the references are linked back to NRL's and JMA's homepages, and the info about Jelawat and Chanchu aren't there any more - that unisys site should be a good choice, I think. One more suggestion - for intensities, could someone kindly put km/h as well? Knots aren't needed, but km/h is used by many people around the world, it would be good if there was km/h as well, instead of just mph. Thanks. Typhoonchaser 10:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For pressures, we should be using the JMA estimates, as they're the only official estimates in the basin. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 12:03, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More consistency? 

message: With Ewiniar headed for North Korea, it got me thinking, "Hey, I've never seen a tropical system make landfall there before." Maybe it is more common than I think (as I do not follow the WPac season that closely), but when/what was the last storm that hit North Korea? How about the last Typhoon? -Winter123 19:49, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Typhoon Rusa hit South Korea on 2002 as a minimal Catgory 1 storm, which was another time the Korean Peninsula got hit by tropical cyclones. And also Typhoon Ewiniar was once forecasted to make landfall at N. Korea, but it actually took a detour and hit S. Korea, like just somewhere just south of Seoul. But as future typhoon seasons come by, maybe the Korean Peninusla can get frequently attacked by tropical cyclones since global warming or the rise of sea tempertures are around. Alastor Moody (talk) 01:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typhoons Hitting N Korea 

message: I really think this page needs cleaning up and its very low-quality. Everything is all over the place-you should put the storms back in order,  Split the timeline off to another page.HurricaneCraze32 13:11, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there's a discussion above... #Proposed guidelines. Chacor 14:11, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Because someone merge/redirected it back to this article but typed in the wrong thing.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up 

message: Who deleted the Typhoon Ewiniar page? Alastor Moody (talk) 18:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Chacor. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 18:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He didn't delete it. It was just merged, and for good reason. The storm isn't likely to do much as a tropical storm. If it does, then it can be un-merged. --Hurricanehink (talk) 23:01, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But then how come Super Typhoon Chanchu has its own page while Ewiniar dosen't, even though they are both Category 4 Super Typhoons in the same year and at the same basin? Alastor Moody (talk) 01:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Chanchu killed over 100 people and did nearly half a billion dollars in damages. Ewiniar came nowhere near that much damage. —Cuiviénen 01:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, but I was just helping Wikipedia to expand (although it wasn't a really good article). Alastor Moody (talk) 02:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At this point, it's more advantageous to improve what we already have to the best it can be. What would be more useful; 2 million poorly-written stub pages or a much lesser amount of good articles worthy of being in a good encyclopedia? Hurricanehink (talk) 02:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you Hurricanehink that good articles make a good encyclopedia rather than stub pages. Alastor Moody (talk) 02:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What happened to the Typhoon Ewiniar page?

message: Will anyone be getting an image for Typhoon Ewiniar? Alastor Moody (talk) 22:28, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably. Here's a good pic, but it's not near peak intensity. Anyone have a good image at its peak? --Hurricanehink (talk) 22:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Earth Observatory image has it at Cat 3, so at a higher intensity but not peak. Interesting how the two NASA sites don't have the same image set.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No it is at the typhoon's peak just they have trouble knowing the true intensity of the typhoon. By the way, JTWC upgraded it to Super Typhoon on the 4th.Irfanfaiz 06:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  And the veimages site is from SeaWiFs and the other one from MODIS.
I have a NRL visible image from when it was near its peak, if you want to use that instead. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 02:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can i see the image? Irfanfaiz 22:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Never mind... Irfanfaiz 05:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ewiniar's Image?

message: Chanchu and Ewiniar are both super typhoons but why only Ewiniar has a "Super Typhoon" title? Chanchu is a little more intense than Ewiniar. Irfanfaiz 12:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically, neither of them should have the title, as "super typhoon" isn't an official title given by the JMA. I removed the "super" from Ewiniar's name. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 14:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I tought of doing that too. Irfanfaiz 06:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chanchu 

message: I found forecasts for the 2006 PTS, shall someone add them to the article to make it better? íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 18:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll do it right now. —Cuiviénen 16:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ack, I put it all together on MS Word and then realized that those predictions were for 2005. Fortunately, it's all written up for 2006 now. I'd also never heard of Tropical Storm Risk, but apparently they're a big deal: see here. —Cuiviénen 17:11, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I see you misunderstood me. That's all for 2005, not 2006. I'm removing it now. —Cuiviénen 02:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh sorry, but does that mean that you can add these forecasts you wrote to 2005? íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 02:41, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Forecasts

message: I read a report from PAGASA that says that Tropical Storm Bilis (Florita) has intensified into a typhoon.  Please update accordingly.  This is the source: http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/wb/tc_up.html.  --Akira123323 Say what? | Track record 12:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the official title is "Severe Tropical Storm" by the JMA. Irfanfaiz 06:21, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're slightly mistaken there, Irfanfaiz, it's not a "NO", because it deserves a mention in the paragraph that PAGASA considered it a TY. Just not in the title. Chacor 07:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Typhoon Bilis

message: We should add the ACE section thingy. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 21:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How would you calculate ACE? ACE is unofficial in this basin as ACE uses 1-minute sustained winds, and the RSMC for this basin uses 10-minute sustained winds. Even if that was not a problem, the ACE elsewhere takes into account "full advisories". However, the JMA gives advisories every three hours. Chacor 02:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about the JTWC, we could use their data. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 02:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The JTWC is unofficial for this basin. Chacor 03:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh come on! We gotta do something. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 12:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ACE

message: Can this be upgraded to a B-class, or should we wait til the end of the season? It's got forecasts, a timeline, all the storms, good organization, and the ACE will (hopefully) be added soon. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 21:11, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In general, current seasons are only start class because they are not stable. While there is an extremely small chance of there being no more storms in the western north Pacific this year, it is more likely that several additional systems will develop and thus the article will require updating. If an article requires frequent updating because it is a current event, it will not be stable enough to be B-Class. OTOH, when the season is over this article may be pretty close to, if not at, B-Class. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 21:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: B-class?

message: This got archived, so I might as well repost it. I just started an article on Bilis, which appears to have killed almost 500 people (source). I can't do this all by myself, since there's a ton of information to be sifted through, so I might need some help. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 03:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bilis article