Talk:List of most intense tropical cyclones

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[edit] Nice work

I'm setting this to high importance. I really liked how you used the best track source for the southern hemisphere cyclones! How come there is no best track file for RSMC Nadi? RaNdOm26 05:28, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Regarding the last comment, Fiji did not have a best track file, at least to my knowledge, so I relied on what I had. Is it a possible FL candidate? Hurricanehink (talk) 05:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
It's very close to being an FL. Expand the lead so it has good coverage of all basins. :) RaNdOm26 05:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Not that it is up to me, but i think this should be a FL. Good work! Juliancolton 19:08, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other article

Seeing this, I have the urge to write an article, "List of weakest Tropical Cyclones" Any thoughts? Juliancolton 00:09, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I greatly oppose that, as it would be a pointless list of tropical depressions (which would be an impossible list, since stats for depressions are horrible worldwide). --Hurricanehink (talk) 02:42, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I was going for the weakest tropical storms, not including tropical depressions. -- Juliancolton (talk) 21:24, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Then it would be a pointless list of 40 mph tropical storms. Please do not make such a list. Hurricanehink (talk) 21:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Fine. Juliancolton (talk) 14:32, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some of this isn't adding up

Some of JMA's pressures seem high and their winds seem low, are they measuring directly in the core of the storm at peak intensity? Gay in 1992 is listed at 900 mb and Angela from 1995 isn't even on the list. Both of those two had Dvorak T-numbers of 8, the highest possible reading and it has been suggested that either could have been stronger than Tip (as Tip's T-numbers were a little lower than both Gay's and Angela's, see Tip's article). If a storm has T-number of 8 in the Western Pacific Ocean, I can guarantee you that it will have a pressure lower than 900 millibars. I could almost guarantee that in the Atlantic, where pressures average higher (Wilma was a 7.2 or 7.5 I think. Tip was 7.5-7.8, something like that). JMA gives Gay's winds as 110 knots. That's something like 130 knots in 1-minute mean. A storm with a T-number of 8 will not have winds that low. Ask any expert who studies hurricanes and they will tell you the same thing. Angela's numbers don't make sense either. JMA gives 115 knot winds with a 910 millibar pressure. 115 knots in 10-min mean is roughly 135-140 in 1-min mean. Those figures are far too low for a T-8 storm. See NOAA's Dvorak chart for more info. -- ยงHurricaneERICarchive 22:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)