User:Runningonbrains
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This week in weather history...
March 12
2006: The worst day of a multi-day outbreak of tornadoes struck the Midwestern and South Central United States, killing 9 people in Illinois and Missouri.
March 13
1979: Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 flew into a thunderstorm while attempting to land at Doha International Airport, Qatar, encountering a microburst that forced the plane into the ground, killing 45 of the 64 people onboard.
March 14
1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, known as one of the founding fathers of weather forecasting, was born in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway.
March 15
2007: Cyclone Indlala made landfall in the Antalaha District of Madagascar, killing over 100 people.
March 16
1942: The Weather Prediction Center (then known as the Analysis Center) began operations in Washington, D.C.
March 17
1936: An extreme flood struck Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, eventually causing around $3 billion (2006 USD) in damage in the city.
March 18
1966: United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashed near Cairo International Airport, Egypt while attempting to land in a severe dust storm after sustaining damage while flying through a thunderstorm. All 30 passengers and crew were killed.
No situation needs the drama that humans bring to it.
I'm actually a really nice person. If you disagree with something I have done, I will be willing to discuss and reconsider my actions. I do not tolerate assuming bad faith or being overly harsh to new editors. But I am also slow to block and quick to forgive honest mistakes.
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My academic background
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My contributions are mainly towards meteorology and related subjects. I am the primary maintainer of Portal:Weather, and I am working on automated tools to organize the improvement of weather-related articles.
As an administrator, I most frequently respond to page protection requests, though I am willing to help with anything that requires administrator assistance. Please start a discussion on my talk page if you'd like my attention.
Here's what I've done:
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Featured Articles
- My first two major projects
- Tornado: Nursed this article from a sloppy stub-like mess to an FA in about 9 months
- Eye (cyclone): My first FA created from scratch, this one took about 9 months as well, and had major help from User:Thegreatdr and User:Titoxd.
Tornado articles
During and after my project to improve Tornado, I created a long list of tornado-related articles.
- Codell, Kansas
- Enhanced Fujita Scale
- Four-State Tornado Swarm
- List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths
- 1899 New Richmond tornado
- 1989 Northeastern United States tornado outbreak
- Power flash
- Rear flank downdraft
- Severe weather
- Skipping tornado
- 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes
- Tornado intensity and damage
- Tornadoes in Bermuda
- Tornadoes in New England
- Tornadogenesis
- TOtable Tornado Observatory
- 1878 Wallingford tornado
Working on these
Tornado lists
Later on, I began a very ambitious effort to make a series of nation-wide lists of tornadoes by state (currently, I've only done two + DC)
- Working on these
- User:Runningonbrains/Tornadoes in Israel
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Maine tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Massachusetts tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of New Hampshire tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Vermont tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Utah tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Idaho tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Wyoming tornadoes
Other articles created
Big surprise, more weather-related articles!
Articles re-written
- Annular hurricane: Before and after
- Tornadoes of 2001: Before and after
- Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado: before and after
- Tornado myths: before and after
WikiProjects
Was highly active in restarting WikiProject Meteorology, and created a new sub-project WikiProject Severe Weather.
Portals
Overhauled the Weather Portal, eventually improving it into a Featured Portal. I am currently actively maintaining this portal.
Milestones
- First edit: Hurricane Katrina talk page
- First mainspace edit: Very silly vandalism Although this was my friend, not really me.
- First constructive mainspace edit: List of Atlantic hurricanes
- First edit under my username: I started an article in my userspace
- 100th edit: Working on userspace version of my first from-scratch featured article
- First whack-a-vandal: Hurricane Gilbert
- 1,000th edit: Discussion on Hurricane Camille's importance
- First appearance on WP:MOSTEDITS: 5097 edits!
- First Huggle rv: Quonochontaug, Rhode Island
- 10,000th edit: Tagging/categorizing new article "Rough Wood"
- I am most proud of this edit.
- Admins make mistakes too.
Other Contributions
Works in progress
My ongoing Featured Topic projects
List of Rhode Island tornadoes
List of Maine tornadoes- List of Massachusetts tornadoes
Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence
Great Barrington tornado outbreak
