Talk:Tropical cyclone/Archive 1

message: Two points:
* Why is it _tropical_ cyclone and not just cyclone? There's probably some explanation for that, and that should be somewhere in the first paragraph of the article.
* The section on Cyclone Tracy should be a separate article, I think.
jheijmans, Friday, June 28, 2002
:I know it's silly to answer such an old question, but it bothers me that it's sitting up here.
:In general meteorological usage, a "cyclone" is any large rotating low pressure storm. This includes non-tropical systems such as arctic cyclones. The modifier "tropical" is used to specify that the cyclone in question has a certain set of characteristics, particularly a closed circulation and large-scale convection.
:Why Australia chooses to drop the "tropical" in common usage, I don't know. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology uses "tropical cyclone" in formal contexts. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:58, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why ''tropical''? 

message: (William M. Connolley 22:23, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with hurricane

message: In the Effects section, we say that a mature cyclone can release heat at a rate of 2*10^19 watts, and that this is 200 times world electrical generating capacity.  Something must be wrong with one of those numbers.  If world electrical generating capacity were the implied 10^17 watts, that would be 10^8 gigawatts.  In another article we say that US generating capacity is something like 600 gigawatts.  The US can't account for less than 1/10,000 of the world's electric capacity, can it?
Let's find out the real numbers and put them in, if possible.  I suspect the number that is wrong is the 200.
:Associated Press has a report today (Sep 23/05) showing the following: with proper acknowledgement, can we add this to the article where it notes that nuclear bombs were suggested to be used? GBC 18:29, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  2*10^19 watts? 

message: When did meteorologists (or scientists, or philosophers) first notice the cyclone nature of these storms?  How has our knowledge of tropical cyclones changed over time?  I'm particularly curious about early changes in knowledge.  Obviously with the advent of satellite photography great strides must have been made in understanding... 12.7.173.34 04:06, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  history of tropical cyclone meteorology ? 

message: The FAC nomination failed, although it had a decent amount of support.
I'm not happy with the article yet, so I don't feel bad about that. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:18, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It wanders; there's no clear path from A to Z. I'm not quite sure how to remedy that. What annoyed me, though, was that most of the complaints seemed centered on the Notable Storm section, and very few comments on the rest of the article. Yet, after I fixed Notable Storms, the same complaint persisted, seemingly complaining that since the information had originally not been there, we can't trust my changes? --Golbez 17:17, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
I didn't really understand that myself. The wandering part is what bothers me, and I'm surprised there were no complaints about that. Right now I'm considering the possibility that a "Atlantic hurricane" article may be needed to separate out some of the basin-specific information, leaving tropical cyclone for general meteorological discussion. Similar articles could be written for other basins. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:48, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: You think it tries too hard to handle all things? Then again, what's really the differences? Location of formation, potential for damage, who monitors them, and direction they spin, and that's basically it. I don't know if a different article is necessary. Perhaps basin-specific info can be given its own header. --Golbez 19:59, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
Excellent article guys. Okiedokie 15:07, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAC nomination 

message: I came here for a simple explanation of why a TC tends to follow a particular curved track from the latitudes within which it develops.  It tends to move poleward after some wandering in its formation latitude.  Firstly, it moves westward (either south west in the southern hemisphere or northwest in the northern) then straight polar and then takes on a more easterly heading (again SE or NE depending on hemisphere) as it speeds up and develops further.  Why?  Also, why does it sometimes vary from this path? In other words, what are the steering forces?  This whole process is not even mentioned in the article as far as I can see.  I don't know the answers so I am not going to even attempt to document it.  Could some expert please address this?  --CloudSurfer 19:08, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In further research on the internet I found this site NOAA FAQs which could act as an entry into the literature. --CloudSurfer 19:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  (William M. Connolley 20:02, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tropical Cylone Tracks