Tropical cyclone activity

• Three tropical cyclones existed in theWest Pacific during December. Typhoon Durian (Reming) was the deadliest and strongest of the three, killing over 800 people, in thePhilippines andVietnam and peaking at Category 4 strength. Typhoon Utor lasted formed onDecember 7 and lasted for 7 days, passing over the Philippines and causing severe floods inMalaysia. The final storm of the year, Tropical Storm Trami, lasted for three days and did not affect land.
• TheSouthern Hemisphere saw a number of storms develop during December. The most significant was Cyclone Bondo, which hitMadagascar onDecember 23. Cyclone Anita dissipated early in the month, having formed in November and Cyclone Clovis developed onDecember 30 before reaching its peak in January. All of these storms were in the Southwest Indian Ocean, the only other cyclone was Cyclone Isobel that formed onDecember 31 to the north ofWestern Australia.

The PortalPortal:Tropical cyclones is designed as the entry point to the WikiProject's work and is recognised as aFeatured Portal. The structure emulates that of Wikipedia'sMain page and needs updating in a similar manner. The following are the key sections that need editorial attention:

• Selected article: This is one of the articles of the project, rotated on a weekly basis. These are selected from the better-quality articles and discussed atPortal talk:Tropical cyclones/Selected article.
• Selected picture: This is chosen from the pictures used in the articles and is rotated monthly. It is selected in a similar manner to the article onPortal talk:Tropical cyclones/Selected picture.
• Did you know: This is rotated as new articles are created and contains an interesting fact from a few of the new articles.
• Active tropical cyclones: Thecurrently active tropical cyclones are listed here, and are linked to appropriately.
• Tropical cyclone news: Recent events in Tropical cyclone activity, such as formation, landfalls and dissipation of storms.
• Anniversaries: This significant anniversaries for each day in the last week. Unlike the others it refreshes automatically, but should be updated if a new significant event occurs.
• Things you can do: Unlike the other sections which are reader orientated, this is aimed at editors to give suggestions of articles to work on.

Please keep all of these sections up-to-date and refresh them as new tropical cyclones develop and articles are created. Also please keep the suggestions to editors current and fresh.

New articles and improvements wanted

These tasks are those listed atPortal:Tropical cyclones/Things you can do:

Main Page content

• Entries from 9 project articles, includingTropical cyclone observation,Bill Proenza,Hurricane Tanya (1995) andHurricane Erin (2001) appeared on theMain Page in theDid you know column during the past two months.
• 1970 Bhola cyclone andCyclone Tracy appeared on theMain Page in theOn this Day column onNovember 13 andDecember 24, respectively.

New articles

November

Storm Articles included:Typhoon Muifa (2004),Hurricane Helene (2006),Hurricane Allison (1995) andCyclone Heta.

Non-storm articles included:Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New Jersey,South Pacific convergence zone and1969 Pacific hurricane season.

December

Storm Articles included:Hurricane Tanya (1995),Tropical Storm Dean (1995) andTropical Storm Beryl (2000)

Non-storm articles included:Storm (novel),Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre,List of fictional tropical cyclones andEastern Pacific Hurricane Center.

Improved articles

Featured articles:Hurricane Edith (1971),Hurricane Fabian,Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina,Tropical Storm Bill (2003),1995 Pacific hurricane season,Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina,Hurricane Erika (2003),Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004) andTropical Storm Edouard (2002).

Featured lists:List of Baja California hurricanes andList of retired Pacific hurricane names.

Two articles were promoted to A-Class:Tropical cyclone andEffects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware.

There were a total of 32 newgood articles including:Tropical cyclogenesis,Atlantic hurricane reanalysis,Hurricane Keith,Hurricane Fico,Tropical Storm Dean (2001) andTropical Storm Arlene (2005).

Storm article statistics

Grade	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
FA	15	16	19	23
A	6	7	6	2
GA	33	48	57	74
B	84	83	78	71
Start	201	210	200	193
Stub	13	11	15	16
Total	352	375	375	379
percentage Less than B	60.8	58.9	57.3	55.1