User:Hurricane Jacob

Beyond editing, I’ve been a passionate weather watcher for many years and have gained quite a bit of experience tracking global patterns. My earliest memories of following storms go back to watching cyclones on my radar in the South Pacific Ocean.

I started out creating 'fictional' Atlantic hurricane seasons to practice track-making. In the early days, I used Microsoft Paint which was a bit of a challenge for making clean lines! Since then, I’ve upgraded my track-making significantly, moving from Microsoft Paint to Paint 3D, and after I joined Wikipedia to hypotrack and lastly to TrackGen, which is the primary tool I use for my work today.

I’ve been a long-time reader of Wikipedia, but I finally decided to join the community on October 11, 2024.

I made my first edit on July 15, 2025, adding season summary maps to the Tropical cyclones in 2025 article. I’m a visual learner, so I picked up the ropes by diving straight into the source code of the articles I was working on. Since then, I’ve enjoyed uploading images, fixing typos, and learning the technical side of things like mastering links, tropical cyclone and winter storm infoboxes, and most recently, horizontal timelines!

I had to take a brief hiatus from September to November 2025 due to some health issues which also caused my slowing activity starting at Late February, but I’m happy to be back and contributing again.

You might notice my username has evolved, too! I originally signed up as Sim Twin Jacob, but later changed it to Hurricane Jacob. While I'm actually most fascinated by winter storms, 'Hurricane' just felt like the right fit for my identity here. My deep interest in meteorology really took off in 2021 when I followed Hurricanes Elsa, Grace, Ida and Sam, and I’ve been hooked on tracking major weather events ever since.

See the tracks here.

Below are satellite photos from NASA that I uploaded, these are not a work of mine, these are from NASA.