User:Runningonbrains
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This week in weather history...
July 2
1997: A tornado outbreak struck the area around Detroit, Michigan, including the third tornado in 51 years to hit Windsor, Ontario.
July 3
1996: Tropical Storm Cristina made landfall near Puerto Ángel, the third tropical cyclone to strike southern Mexico in 10 days.
July 4
2025: Flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country killed 135 people.
July 5
1805: Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle and a pioneering British meteorologist, was born in Suffolk, England.
July 6
2013: Hurricane Erick reached peak intensity as it passed 100 miles (160 km) offshore of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico. Though the storm did not make landfall, flooding rains lead to the deaths of at least two people.
July 7
1991: A major derecho raced from South Dakota to New York, killing one person and causing over $100 million in damage.
July 8
1980: Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Soviet Kazakhstan due to turbulence caused by thermals during a heat wave, killing all 166 people on board.
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
