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Volume XLVI, Issue 46, March 1, 2021<br>
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[[File:TheHurricaneHerald.png|500px|center]]<br><div style="text-align: center;"><big>'''''The Hurricane Herald'''''</big></div><!--I would like that there are no more special editions for the time being, which contributed to making The Hurricane Herald lengthier recently. I would like go back to the basics a little bit for this edition.-->
The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of [[WP:WPTC|WikiProject Tropical Cyclones]]. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global [[tropical cyclone]] activity. ''The Hurricane Herald'' has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the [[WP:WPTC/SPAM|member list]]. New members will automatically receive this newsletter. This issue of ''The Hurricane Herald'' covers all project related events from January&nbsp;15&ndash;February&nbsp;28, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are [[User:MarioJump83|MarioJump83]], [[User:Destroyeraa|Destroyeraa]], [[User:HurricaneCovid|HurricaneCovid]], [[User:CycloneFootball71|CycloneFootball71]], [[User:HurricaneEdgar|HurricaneEdgar]], [[User:Skarmory|Skarmory]], [[User:Typhoon2013|Typhoon2013]] (editor's pick for member of the month), and our member of the month, [[User:LightandDark2000|LightandDark2000]]! ''Please visit [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Project resources|this page]] and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions, including past MoTMs and SoTMs, can be viewed [[WP:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive|here]].''

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'''WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments'''
*In response to the initial selection of [[User:Cyclone Toby|Cyclone Toby]] as MoTM of the last edition, the long established-practice of picking MoTM (edition) by the main editor of Hurricane Herald was changed, with one that involved most of the WPTC community being created. The original practice continues to live on, but in the form of MoTM (Editor's Pick), as wished by longtime editor of the Hurricane Herald, [[User:Hurricanehink|Hurricanehink]]. The details of this event were recorded in the notes of the last edition and in this edition.
*On January 13, 2021, [[User:Destroyeraa|Destroyeraa]] announced the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Cyclone Cup|Cyclone Cup]], which was inspired by the [[WP:WIKICUP|WikiCup]]. There are seven participants in the 2021 Cyclone Cup, who are: [[User:CodingCyclone|CodingCyclone]], [[User:Skarmory|Skarmory]], [[User:CycloneFootball71|CycloneFootball71]], [[User:MarioJump83|MarioJump83]], [[User:Jason Rees|Jason Rees]], [[User:HurricaneCovid|HurricaneCovid]], and [[User:LightandDark2000|LightandDark2000]]. This is the second-ever competition organized by members of WPTC. The first competition organized by WPTC members was the [[WP:WPTC/CUP|WPTC Bowl]], which started on January 2012, before flaming out by the end of 2012 without anyone winning the competition. The WPTC Bowl was also inspired by the WikiCup, similar to the Cyclone Cup, but ran differently from the Cyclone Cup. We hope that the Cyclone Cup ends up successful, with a winner.
*In the light of [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Archive 44#Did i?|BCNY2011's membership situation]] (now globally locked and was found to be socking also), I, MarioJump83, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Members&type=revision&diff=1005312078&oldid=1005044634&diffmode=source heavily revamped the members list of WPTC] as well as formalized WPTC bylaws, with some modifications, regarding inactive membership, thus allowing veteran WPTC members [[User:Runningonbrains|Runningonbrains]], [[User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton]] (two of the 14 WPTC core members), [[User:Atomic7732|Atomic7732]] and [[User:Derpdadoodle|Derpdadoodle]] to rejoin the project.<!--I honestly don't know why they "left" the project if they definitely aren't--> I also tried to enforce some [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Membership guidelines|guidelines regarding recruiting and membership]] as it [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones#WPTC recruitment guidelines and concerns|was discussed previously]], but since I did not discuss and establish the consensus in regards to enforcement and the shape of "guidelines" as of now is more of an essay, for now they will be considered unofficial and have yet to be implemented. It will be discussed later on, probably in a survey.
*During Wikipedia's 15th anniversary, I officially revived the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms|Non-tropical storms WikiProject]] (WPNTS), due to WPTC editors actively joining the WikiProject, despite the fact that the WikiProject was defunct. (More reasons will be stated in my opinion piece in the next issue of the WPNTS newsletter.) Despite its formal revival, WPNTS was not fully reorganized until February 7. That day, I closely modeled that WikiProject after WikiProject Tropical cyclones, thus tying WPNTS together with WPTC, as the two WikiProjects are closely intertwined. In the meanwhile, I discovered the defunct newsletter of WPNTS and later on, [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather|WikiProject Severe Weather]], both of which has their last issues in March 2008. As I began WPNTS makeover, I revived both publications. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms/Newsletter|WikiProject Non-tropical storms Newsletter]], which is known as ''The Frozen Times'', and the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Newsletter|WikiProject Severe weather Newsletter]] will become sister publications of ''The Hurricane Herald'' going forward. I have set their publication dates on March 15, and April 1, 2021<!--Not a fricking April Fools, gonna be serious LOL-->, respectively, and they are going to become semi-regular newsletters. Before they ever get published, I implore you to help me writing these newsletters, the links for which are listed here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Non-tropical_storms/Newsletter/Archive_2&action=edit '''The Frozen Times'''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Severe_weather/Newsletter/Archive_3&action=edit '''WikiProject Severe Weather'''].
*Alongside the revamp above, I discovered the [[Special:PermaLink/457917930|2011 list]] through looking at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Members&limit=1000&action=history edit history of the members page], which shows the true extent of this WikiProject's popularity, as well as the members that joined the project after 2011 but were eventually removed from the roster, as the after effects of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Members&type=revision&diff=459513026&oldid=457917930&diffmode=source Hurricanefan25's mass removal of inactive WikiProject members]. I restored them back to the list during and after the revamp - they were truly part of the WikiProject during the golden age of WPTC and I see it's removal by the sock of [[User:Perseus, Son of Zeus|Perseus, Son of Zeus]], as effectively destroying the history of the WPTC because of the importance of these members. The restored list reveals that [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ''is actually'' a member of WPTC back in the day and clearly still participates in the project,<!--really, in fact--> while [[User:Rosalina2427|Rosalina2427]] is actually an ''another member'' of the 14 golden age WPTC remnants that still remain to this day. (Note: These were the members that was listed before [[User:TheAustinMan|TheAustinMan]] joined the project) Our newsletter's subscribers [[User:AySz88|AySz88]], [[User:RingtailedFox|RingTailedFox]], [[User:WmE|WmE]], [[User:Douglasr007|Douglasr007]], [[User:Dylan620|Dylan620]] and [[User:X!|X!]] were actually members of this WikiProject, despite the belief that they weren't.<!--This leaves Jo-Jo Emerus as the one who didn't join the project.--> And the others, such as [[User:Good kitty|Good kitty]] and [[User:Miss Madeline|Miss Madeline]] were very influential in the building of this WikiProject. In conclusion, you can see that there is more from the WikiProject than meets the eye. The WikiProject used to be huge before 2010s decade started, and they were the building blocks of the project that unfortunately were erased by some sock.
*[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Archive 42|The three-month merge moratorium]], which has been implemented since November 23, 2020, ended on February 23, at 03:45:00 UTC. During the moratorium, when it was in effect, there were generally no attempts to discuss changes to the moratorium, nor were there any requests for article mergers. However, there were two requests to allow an exception to the merge moratorium. One of which was to merge [[Meteorological history of Hurricane Michael]] to the [[Hurricane Michael]] as that article presents an obstacle for Hurricane Michael article to reach GA - the consensus for exception was quickly reached on Christmas 2020, and on January 5 the article was finally merged. The other, which was meant for [[Hurricane Jeanne]]'s impacts articles, was never made into a proposal and thus were not seriously discussed at all. The first such merger after the merge moratorium expired was merging [[Tropical Storm Amanda (2020)]] and [[Tropical Storm Cristobal (2020)]] into [[Tropical Storm Amanda–Cristobal]], which later was requested to be moved into 2020 Central America and Mexico floods and opposers of the merger requested splitting them back once again.

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New articles since the last newsletter include:
*[[1950 North Indian Ocean cyclone season]]
*[[1951 North Indian Ocean cyclone season]]
*[[Cyclone Guambe]]
*[[Hurricane Olivia (1982)]]
*[[Ken Graham]]
*[[List of named storms (E)]]
*[[List of named storms (F)]]
*[[List of named storms (G)]]
*[[List of named storms (H)]]
*[[List of named storms (M)]]
*[[List of named storms (N)]]
*[[List of named storms (O)]]
*[[List of typhoons in the Philippines (1963–1999)]]
*[[List of typhoons in the Philippines (2000-present)]]
*[[List of Western Pacific tropical depressions]]
*[[Tropical cyclones in 1997]]
*[[Tropical cyclones in 1998]]
*[[Tropical cyclones in 1999]]
*[[Tropical cyclones in 2000]]
*[[Tropical cyclones in 2001]]
*[[Tropical Storm Barijat]]
*[[Tropical Storm Linfa]]
*[[Typhoon Prapiroon (2018)]]
*[[Typhoon Tapah (2019)]]
*[[Typhoons in the Korean peninsula]]

New GA's include:
*[[Typhoon Sally (1964)]]
*[[Tropical Storm Rolf]]
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;{{classicon|FA}} Featured Articles promoted (January 1–February 28)
*None during this issue.

;{{classicon|GA}} Good Articles promoted (January 1–February 28)
*None during this issue.

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*[[Tropical Storm Barijat]]
*[[Typhoon Prapiroon (2018)]]

;During this issue...
I, MarioJump83, the interim coordinator of 2018 Global FT's WPAC squad, feels bad<!--really disappointed--> with what is going on as I felt we are taking a step back with the ongoing real-life difficulties regarding important members of our task force. KN2731 had to take a wikibreak because of the [[National service in Singapore|compulsory service in Singapore]] and will likely be gone for two years; Destroyeraa's activities were highly inhibited by multiple illnesses, school exams, "bullying" issues<!--BCNY2011-->, and [[February 2021 North American winter storm|series of winter storms this month]]; Hurricane Noah almost took a two-month-long wikibreak because due to college studies, which Noah is committed to (he also left the WPTC Discord for a couple of months, due to toxicity). I don't really like to take a lot of responsibilities  within the 2018 Global FT task force, as I had joined with the intent of helping GA's that involves this year, i.e. like what I did in [[Cyclone Ava]] and [[Cyclone Owen]] as of now, but with so many of us were forced out of commission due to these problems I mentioned, I and LightandDark2000 had to take much of the responsibility within the task force. Because of this reason, I strongly recommend you, readers of Hurricane Herald, '''to join''' this task force to help take pressure off from us. Note that this is not a formal invite, as Wikipedia is free and anyone can edit, but this is what we have to deal with in this current situation, especially because of our real-life problems and commitments. Let's hope that we, including you, can make this through with what we can do!

;We are ''recruiting''
If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the [[WP:FAR|FAC review process]] for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to {{u|LightandDark2000}} or any other member of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/2018_FT_task_force|2018 FT task force]]. 
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'''WikiProject To-Do'''
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The rest of intensity lists, Pacific typhoon seasons from 1902 to 1938, Australian region cyclone seasons from 1963 to 1970, South Pacific cyclone seasons from 1958 to 1969, Tropical cyclones between 1978 and the newest article, [[1870 Straits of Florida hurricane]], [[1864 Calcutta cyclone]], [[Hurricanes in Mexico]], [[Draft:Tropical cyclone effects by region|Tropical cyclone effects by region]], ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Article requests|more...]]''
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[[Tropical cyclones in India]], [[Tropical cyclones in Myanmar]], [[Tropical cyclones in Sri Lanka]], [[List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900)]], [[Typhoon Faxai]] and other storms in [[2019 Pacific typhoon season]] (and the season article itself), [[2020 Pacific typhoon season]]
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[[List of depressions and deep depressions in the North Indian Ocean]], [[List of South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclones]], Seasonal summaries and global condition sections for nearly every tropical cyclones by year articles, Pacific hurricane season timelines and earlier season articles in 1950s, [[1941 Pacific typhoon season|1941]]/[[1942 Pacific typhoon season|1942]]/[[1943 Pacific typhoon season|1943]]/[[1944 Pacific typhoon season|1944]] Pacific typhoon seasons, most of the List of named storms articles, [[Tropical Storm Fay (2008)]]
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<li>'''[[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|Stubs]]:''' [[Typhoon Trix (1952)]]<!--If anyone sees this comment, consider saving this article as this is the last remaining Top 20 deadliest modern-day Philippine typhoon-->, [[1876 Bengal cyclone]], [[1971 Odisha cyclone]], [[1978 Sri Lanka cyclone]], [[Typhoon Kathleen (1947)]], [[1900s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons|1900s]]/[[1910s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons|1910s]]/[[1920s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons|1920s]]/[[1930s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons|1930s]] North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons, [[1900s Australian region cyclone seasons|1900s]]/[[1920s Australian region cyclone seasons|1920s]]/[[1930s Australian region cyclone seasons|1930s]] Australian region cyclone seasons, ''[[:Category:Stub-Class_Tropical_cyclone_articles|more...]]''</li>
<li>'''2018 Global FT push:''' some goals for the 2018 Global FT include the creation or improvement of many other articles listed in [[WT:WPTC#2018 Global FT|the first section on the WPTC talk page]]. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/2018 FT task force|Also please join our task force!]]</li>
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| February 2021
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Guambe]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| January 2021
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Eloise]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| '''''Storm of the Year 2020'''''
| style="text-align:center;"| '''''[[Hurricane Eta]]'''''
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| December 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Yasa]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| November 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Hurricane Iota]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| October 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Typhoon Goni (2020)]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| September 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Ianos]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| August 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Hurricane Laura]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| July 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Hurricane Isaias]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| June 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Tropical Storm Amanda–Cristobal|Tropical Storm Cristobal (2020)]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| May 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Amphan]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| April 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Harold]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| March 2020
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Cyclone Herold]]
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'''Storm of the month and other tropical activity for the rest of January and February'''
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'''SoTM for January&nbsp;– [[Cyclone Eloise]]'''<br />
Cyclone Eloise formed in January 14, to the east of another system, Cyclone Joshua, in the central South Indian Ocean. The disturbance developed into a tropical depression on January 16, and on the next day, the depression intensified into Moderate Tropical Storm Eloise. Eloise struggled to intensify, due to unfavorable conditions; however, the storm still managed to intensify further into Severe Tropical Storm Eloise on January 19. This strengthening trend did not last long, as Eloise made landfall in northern Madagascar, and interaction with mountains caused Eloise to weaken into a moderate tropical storm once more. Eloise emerged into the Mozambique Channel on January 20 and started intensifying again, despite having recently experienced a sustained land interaction. However, the storm slowed down, due to the location and the surrounding environment. Later on, Eloise managed to intensify into a full-fledged tropical cyclone, before proceeding to undergo rapid intensification as the storm neared landfall. Eloise peaked as a Category 2-equivalent tropical cyclone just before making landfall near [[Beira]], [[Mozambique]], on January 22, which had been affected by [[Tropical Storm Chalane]] just weeks prior, and was still recovering from the devastating impacts of [[Cyclone Idai]] nearly two years ago. Eloise then degenerated into a remnant low above [[Zimbabwe]] on January 25, and per JTWC, the remnants of Eloise soon dissipated above [[Botswana]] on January 26.

Eloise caused numerous disasters throughout numerous countries, specifically, in Madagascar, [[South Africa]], Zimbabwe, [[Eswatini]], and Mozambique. Mozambique was the hardest-hit. In Madagascar, Eloise destroyed 190 homes and caused the death of one person. In South Africa, Eloise caused the deaths of 10 people, four of which were children, in addition to being responsible for making another 7 people go missing. In Zimbabwe, Eloise caused damage and destruction to nearly a thousand homes, some of which were badly affected by Idai two years ago. Three people were also swept away by flooding from Eloise and were presumed to be dead. In Eswatini, over 1,500 people were affected by the storm, two of whom were killed. Eloise also damaged the water system and flooded the gravel roads and low-lying bridges. In Mozambique, the residents compared the cyclone's impacts to [[Cyclone Idai]], which had catastrophically devastated the country two years earlier. This storm caused psychological trauma and mental health crises among the residents of the country. Eloise caused nine deaths in Mozambique, but massive amounts of farmland were flooded, and the storm also damaged over 30,000 houses, the majority of which were destroyed by the storm. 579 classrooms and 86 health centers had to be repaired after the storm.
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'''SoTM for February&nbsp;– [[Cyclone Guambe]]'''<!--Deaths of dolphins--><br />
Cyclone Guambe formed as a disturbance in the Mozambique Channel in February 10. The disturbance subsequently transitioned into a subtropical depression two days later, as it made landfall in Mozambique. For the next several days, the system made a slow counterclockwise loop over Mozambique, while slowly organizing. The system re-emerged into the Mozambique Channel on February 16 and was designated as Tropical Disturbance 11. The disturbance was soon upgraded into a depression later that day, and the storm became Moderate Tropical Storm Guambe on the next day. Subsequently, Guambe proceeded to strengthen, intensifying into a severe tropical storm on February 18. Guambe then began to undergo rapid intensification, becoming a tropical cyclone on February 19, before peaking later that day as a Category 2-equivalent tropical cyclone. However, Guambe then underwent an eyewall replacement cyclone and began to weaken on February 20, as the storm accelerated towards the southeast. On February 21, Guambe became extratropical, Guambe was later absorbed by another extratropical cyclone on February 23.

Guambe caused widespread flooding in Mozambique, which displaced over 27,000 people and worsened the ongoing crisis in the region. Prisoners had to be transferred away from the cyclone because of potential flooding. There were no deaths recorded and damages were unknown, however the worst part of Guambe wasn't there yet. South Africa were also flooded by Guambe, which might have been caused by the secondary low-level circulation center (LLCC) of Guambe. This secondary LLCC had caused Guambe to slow down, which probably had devastating effects on [[Bazaruto Archipelago National Park]]'s marine life, as 186 [[Spinner dolphin]]s were probably killed by the storm. After Guambe re-emerged into the Mozambique Channel, no additional damage to human property was reported, thus marking the end of Guambe's impacts on land.
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*[[2021 Pacific typhoon season|Western Pacific]] – The West Pacific basin saw its first tropical cyclone of the year develop, which was a tropical depression. This storm affected the Philippines for two days, on January 19–20. Another tropical cyclone developed in the next month, which developed into Tropical Storm Dujuan. Dujuan was not as damaging as the first tropical depression, but it ended up being deadlier. Dujuan dissipated soon after impacting the Philippines.
*[[2020–21 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season|South-West Indian Ocean]] – [[Cyclone Eloise|Eloise]], the seventh named storm of the season, formed on January 14, before becoming a named storm three days later. On January 19, Eloise made landfall on Madagascar as a moderate tropical storm. Afterward, the storm moved into the Mozambique Channel, undergoing rapid intensification as it neared Mozambique, before making landfall near [[Beira, Mozambique|Beira]], [[Mozambique]] at peak intensity on January 23, as a Category-2 equivalent tropical cyclone, with the storm strengthening all the way up to landfall. Eloise weakened as it moved inland, dissipating on January 25. On January 17, Joshua entered the South-West Indian Ocean basin from the Australian region basin, before dissipating two days later. On January 27, Tropical Low 10U entered the basin from the Australian region, which was classified as Tropical Depression 09. The depression never strengthened into a tropical storm and soon dissipated on the next day. Faraji formed on February 4, and became a tropical storm next day. Faraji explosively intensified to become the first Category 5-equivalent tropical cyclone (according to JTWC estimates) in the basin since [[Cyclone Fantala|Fantala]] in 2016, and the first Category 5-Equivalent tropical cyclone worldwide [[tropical cyclones in 2021|in 2021]]. Faraji was projected to restrengthen, and possible threaten land areas as it tracked westward towards Madagascar; however, this threat never materialized, as the storm encountered more hostile conditions and weakened instead. The storm degenerated into a remnant low on February 13, before dissipating 3 days later. Guambe formed on February 10, and became a subtropical depression two days later, while making landfall near [[Inhambane]], [[Mozambique]]. The system remained inland until February 16, when it re-emerged into the Mozambique Channel and was designated as Tropical Disturbance 11. The disturbance then began to strengthen, becoming a tropical storm on the next day, and a tropical cyclone later three days later. Guambe peaked as a Category 2-equivalent tropical cyclone on February 19. The cyclone was forecasted to strengthen even further; however, Guambe underwent an eyewall replacement cycle and began to weaken. The storm became post-tropical on February 21 and dissipated two days later.
*[[2020–21 Australian region cyclone season|Australian region]] – On January 16, Tropical Low 07U intensified into Tropical Cyclone Joshua. Afterward, five more storms developed in the basin within the second part of the month: Tropical Low 08U, Tropical Cyclone Kimi, Tropical Low 10U, Tropical Low 11U, and Tropical Low 12U. Joshua moved into the South-West Indian Ocean basin on January 17. On January 21, 08U made landfall in the Western Territory of Australia, before dissipating two days later. Kimi meandered off the coast of Queensland from January 16 to 19, before dissipating offshore. 10U formed to the southeast of Christmas Island and remained over water throughout its duration. 10U exited the basin into the South-West Indian Ocean on January 27. On January 25, Tropical Low 11U formed, followed by Tropical Low 12U on January 28. 11U became Lucas and exited the basin as it peaked on February 1. Tropical Low 12U remained overland for most of its existence, moving parallel to the western coastline of Australia for 5 days, before emerging over open water on February 4. 12U never reached tropical cyclone intensity, and became extratropical on the next day. However, the storm turned back towards Australia and resumed moving parallel to the coast, before dissipating several days later. Tropical Low 13U formed on February 6, a day after 12U became extratropical, and made landfall near the North Territory–Queensland border, before dissipating on February 8. Another tropical low, 14U, formed ten days later, and lasted for five days before dissipating. Tropical Low 15U formed on February 23 and became Marian. Marian eventually proceeded to undergo rapid intensification, becoming a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone on February 28, making it the most intense cyclone of the season, as of this writing. Tropical Low 16U formed near the end of the month.
*[[2020–21 South Pacific cyclone season|South Pacific]] – Tropical Disturbance 04F developed to the west of [[Port Vila]], [[Vanuatu]], on January 22. Several days later, Tropical Disturbances 05F and 06F developed near Fiji. All three systems organized into tropical depressions by January 28. 04F and 06F never developed into tropical cyclones, while 05F became [[Cyclone Ana]]. Cyclone Ana dissipated February 1, the same day that Cyclone Lucas entered the basin. Lucas became subtropical on February 3, before dissipating shortly afterward. On February 7, Tropical Disturbance 09F formed and nearly reached tropical cyclone status, before dissipating. Two weeks later, Tropical Disturbance 10F developed near Wallis and Futuna but never developed into a tropical depression.
*[[South Atlantic tropical cyclone|South Atlantic]] – On February 4, a rare, fully-tropical storm was designated in the basin as ''01Q'' by the NOAA. The storm lasted briefly before losing tropical characteristics, with the NOAA discontinuing their bulletins later that day. However, the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center never issued advisories on the storm.
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'''Member of the month (edition)&nbsp;– [[User:LightandDark2000|LightandDark2000]]'''
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LightandDark2000 joined Wikipedia as an IP editor on May 2, 2009. Although [[:User:Hurricanehink|a couple]] [[:User:TropicalAnalystwx13|of users]] encouraged him to make an account early on, he decided to continue editing articles from his IPs for the next few years. He registered his user account in May 2012 and spent another year on Wikipedia as an IP editor, before fully transitioning over to his account in the summer of 2013. He received an invitation to join WPTC in March 2014, which he accepted. Ever since joining WPTC, LightandDark2000 has been a regular editor on tropical cyclone articles and one of Wikipedia's most active [[WP:ROLL|rollbackers]], putting him on the forefront in the fight against vandals and [[WP:LTA|LTAs]], and actively steering the WikiProject out of stagnation. He also defended WPTC from numerous vandals, including the likes of the LTAs {{u|IPhonehurricane95}} and {{u|Lightning Sabre}}. In late 2014–early 2017, LightandDark2000 largely moved out of WPTC into [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|MILHIST]] (as well as taking a 3-month WikiBreak in the fall of 2016—due to college work and stress from on-wiki hounding), before returning to WPTC in September 2017, following the devastating landfall of [[Hurricane Harvey]] in [[Texas]]. From there, LightandDark2000 regularly contributed to tropical cyclone articles, as well as articles on other storms and natural disasters, before taking a series of WikiBreaks in late 2019 through mid-2020, due to college work and real-life activities. 

However, LightandDark2000 returned in July 2020, just as the extremely-active [[2020 Atlantic hurricane season|North Atlantic hurricane season]] got underway. By the time the last issue of ''The Hurricane Herald'' was released, LightandDark2000 had made a full return and was ramping up activity, even as WPTC was beset by a series of problems within its membership, ranging from blocks to stress-induced WikiBreaks. During this time of crisis, LightandDark2000 stepped up very quickly - first, he helped out a number of users who were struggling with personal issues on the WikiProject. Then, he joined 2018 Global FT (currently the Interim Coordinator, with {{u|Hurricane Noah}} and {{u|KN2731}} stepping aside due to real-life commitments). From there, he conducted his first GA review, which was for [[Talk:Hurricane Beryl/GA1|Hurricane Beryl]]. After that, he took on a major role in the writing of the previous issue of ''The Hurricane Herald'', which as of this writing is the biggest issue of ''Hurricane Herald'' ever published, at an excess of 50,000 bytes, as well as being the most visually-balanced ''Hurricane Herald'' issue since the first issues of ''Hurricane Herald'' (if it were to be viewed using a 1920×1080 desktop using Legacy Vector). For these reasons and his contributions to the WPTC in the past, we will finally thank LightandDark2000 for all of his contributions by rewarding him with the Member of the Month for this edition. It's quite sad that he didn't get this award since the restart of ''Hurricane Herald'' in late 2018 to this day, but now, he has the opportunity to win the award for the first time. We are hoping to see more from LightandDark2000 in the future. For example, he joined the 2021 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Cyclone Cup|Cyclone Cup]] (and also volunteered to take on the role of a judge, if necessary), a new competition for WPTC members based on the [[Wikipedia:WikiCup|WikiCup]]!
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'''New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter'''
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*{{user|DaniloEvan123}}
*{{user|AwesomeHurricaneBoss}}
*{{User|HarrySupertyphoon}}
*{{user|Flasty Jam}} <small>(Rejoined)</small>
*{{user|Akbermamps}}
*{{user|VantaWiki}}
*{{user|Aegeou2}}

To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! 
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From January&nbsp;15 to February&nbsp;28 no featured article were promoted.

<small>''From the Main Page: Documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from January&nbsp;15&ndash;February&nbsp;28, 2021 in chronological order.''</small>
;{{Classicon|FA}} '''[[WP:TFA|Today's Featured Article]]/[[WP:TFL|List]]'''
*[[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 18, 2021|February 18, 2021]] - [[Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian]]
;{{Classicon|}} '''[[WP:DYK|Did you know...?]]'''
*[[Special:PermaLink/1001041029|January 18, 2021]] - [[Hurricane Beryl]]
*[[Special:PermaLink/1005787617|February 9, 2021]] - [[Cyclone Meena]]

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'''Current assessment table'''
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<small>''Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See [[User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Tropical cyclone|here]] for the latest, most up to date statistics.''</small>
<br/>As of this issue, there are 164 [[WP:FA|featured articles]] and 70 [[WP:FL|featured lists]]. There are 133 A-class articles, and  1,010 [[WP:GA|good articles]]. There are only 71 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 415 C-class articles, 788 start-class articles, and 182 stub-class articles, with 23 lists, and 9 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better. [[Typhoon Warren]] was the 1000th GA in the project.

'''[[WP:CLASSES|About the assessment scale →]]'''
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'''Project Goals & Progress'''
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<small>''The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.''</small>
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'''Special thanks to [[User:Thegreatdr|David Roth]], [[User:Keith Edkins|Keith Edkins]], [[User:Hylian Auree|Hylian Auree]] and [[User:HurricaneSpin|HurricaneSpin]]'''
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In this section, we want to thank these first-generation WPTC members for being able to stay in here for years before 2020. They (David, Keith, Hylian and Spin) are one of greatest content creators in WPTC history, helping to build and shape WPTC for what it is now today. Without them, we don't know if WPTC would be like today. David Roth's expertise, Keith Edkins' maintenance activities, Hylian's and Spin's content creation skill helped a lot in the early days of WPTC and we hope some of us can replicate what they can do in today's WPTC.
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'''Member of the month (Editor's Pick)&nbsp;– [[User:Typhoon2013|Typhoon2013]]'''
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Typhoon2013 first edited Wikipedia in August 2013, and ever since joining Wikipedia, Typhoon2013 has been one of the most prolific editors in Western Pacific basin. Since last November, Typhoon2013 has been working very hard on getting [[List of Western Pacific tropical depressions|tropical]] [[List of Western Pacific tropical storms|cyclone]] [[List of Western Pacific severe tropical storms|intensity]] [[List of typhoons|lists]] [[List of strong typhoons|of]] [[List of very strong typhoons|Western]] [[List of violent typhoons|Pacific]] [[List of super typhoons|basin]] done, lending a hand in creation of named storms lists of [[List of named storms (C)|C]], [[List of named storms (P)|P]], [[List of named storms (R)|R]], and [[List of named storms (S)|S]] (alongside finishing [[List of named storms (T)]] which I was unable to complete because of college), as well as finishing storm lists of Pacific typhoon seasons from [[1980 Pacific typhoon season#Season effects|1980]] to [[1964 Pacific typhoon season#Season effects|1964]]. For the efforts Typhoon2013 has done leading to the publishing of this newsletter, I, {{u|MarioJump83}}, as one of many editors of ''Hurricane Herald'', will be picking Typhoon2013 as the Member of the Month (Editor's Pick) and thank him for his contributions to build a bedrock foundation for the rapidly-growing Western Pacific coverage of the Wikipedia. We wish Typhoon2013 best of luck at college!
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'''My experience here on Wikipedia - by [[User:Destroyeraa|Destroyeraa]]'''
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Was planned to be published in 44th edition of Hurricane Herald, however due to some issue<!--confidential - not going to tell or risk this OP being delayed once again--> ([[Special:PermaLink/993335731|and per Destroyeraa's request]]), I have delayed this opinion piece further into this edition. At this point, I do not want to see this opinion piece getting delayed further into May 2021 as I '''''really, really''''' want this OP, alongside my OP below to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. '''[[User:MarioJump83|<span style="color:#006BB6">Mario</span>]][[User talk:MarioJump83|<span style="color:#FFC20E">Jump</span>]][[Special:Contributions/MarioJump83|<span style="color:black; background:#F8EF2A">83!</span>]]'''
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I created my Wikipedia account on January 18, 2020. I seems so long ago. My first edit was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Destroyeraa&oldid=936318396 creating my user page], and my first mainspace edit was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hammonton%2C_New_Jersey&type=revision&diff=936465200&oldid=934713923 on Hammonton, New Jersey]. My [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Destroyeraa&oldid=938211013 first autoconformed edit] was on my userpage. By then, I was editing about myself and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ohio_Street_%28Chicago%29&type=revision&diff=938979830&oldid=881233641 roads]. My first tropical cyclone edit was on January 30, on [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tropical_Storm_Nestor_(2019)&diff=prev&oldid=938391109 Tropical Storm Nestor], which got [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tropical_Storm_Nestor_(2019)&diff=next&oldid=938391109 reverted]. I also [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/Archive_44&action=edit edited about the coronavirus epidemic before it became a worldwide pandemic]. I edited [[List of United States tornadoes in April 2020]], but got [[WP:BITE|bitten]] on the talk page, though my love for tornadoes kept me editing pages. I also began editing numerous cyclone pages, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Tropical_cyclones%2FMembers&type=revision&diff=957464936&oldid=957157896 joined WPTC] on May 19. It was sad that no one noticed that I joined, and no one welcomed me on my talk page for five months already. I submitted my first article, [[Tropical Storm Bertha (2020)]], which [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADestroyeraa&type=revision&diff=959912351&oldid=959882351 was accepted]. I was still [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADestroyeraa&type=revision&diff=960711869&oldid=960269348 rather new], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Destroyeraa&diff=next&oldid=960712185 mistook Chicdat] as an admin. It was June already. Still, no one welcomed me. Finally, on June 5, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADestroyeraa&type=revision&diff=960892831&oldid=960738865 Hurricanehink took notice of my edits and welcome me!] Around the same time, I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Destroyeraa/twinkleoptions.js&oldid=961540510 downloaded Twinkle]. I found the CSD function very cool, and I admittedly didn't read [[WP:CSD]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADestroyeraa&type=revision&diff=964963483&oldid=963948613 misused it]. One month later, I met my first real vandal, which turned out to be a Force Thirteen kid who was messing around changing everything to Force Thirteen without leaving a source or an edit summary, which most people will take as vandalism. It turned out to be pretty rough, and did not end well for both of us. I was still learning at that stage, as shown [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Destroyeraa&oldid=970033826 here]. After that, my experience here got much better. Perhaps it was the "learning-the-ropes" phase that is the hardest for all Wikipedians. I created and wrote some [[WP:GA|good articles]], with my first being [[Hurricane Dolores (2015)|Hurricane Dolores]], promoted on September 24. I also developed a good relationship with many of my fellow Wikipedians, including the editors/writers of this newsletter and many other newer and older users. Then came the sock block. I'll not get into much detail about that, though I will be forever indebted to the countless users who vouched for me and who welcomed me back to the community with open arms. Thank you. I am glad to be here today.'''~''' [[User:Destroyeraa|<span style="color:#00CCFF;">Destroyeraa</span>]][[User talk:Destroyeraa|🌀]][[Special:Contribs/Destroyeraa|🇺🇸]]<!--Changed signatures since the time it was written-->
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'''My experiences of tropical cyclones and tropical cyclone editing before joining WPTC - by [[User:MarioJump83|MarioJump83]]'''
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I planned this OP way back to September 2020, but because of issues with length and college (also even stress - detailed in my previous opinion piece ''My stress''), I decided to delay this opinion piece until now. I also intend to publish this opinion piece alongside Destroyeraa's OP above, thus pushing back the date where I can publish this opinion piece further. Thus I fully apologize for delaying this opinion piece for way too long. I was unable to spend my time on building this opinion piece because of these issues and thus getting this opinion piece complete in time. By the way, this will be the final opinion piece I will write for Hurricane Herald - I'm done with it after two opinion pieces as SMB99thx and two opinion pieces as MarioJump83. It was so much fun creating opinion pieces, but I don't want to have opinion pieces for four straight issues already since the 43rd edition! I'm still editing Hurricane Herald in the future, but not writing opinion pieces any further - [[Template:Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Invite|...unless you're inviting me to write an opinion piece]] [[User talk:MarioJump83|in my user talk page]], which I'll do my best to comply.
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Hello, WikiProject Tropical cyclones! I want to tell you about the reasons why I liked and loved tracking tropical cyclones and my experience regarding editing tropical cyclones before I joined this WikiProject.

First of all, I have been watching tropical cyclones but on-and-off since 2012. That year, [[Hurricane Sandy]] as I remembered it got significant coverage on my country, [[Indonesia]] (''Badai Sandy''). That hurricane was the first tropical cyclone that I had ever known in my life (it's possible that [[Hurricane Katrina]] had significant coverage in my country, but I didn't remember anything at all about it), and without it I would never known about tropical cyclones by myself. When that hurricane was about to be finished, I visited the article about [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season]] on Wikipedia, and it was the first article about tropical cyclones that I have ever read on Wikipedia. From that day, my interest on tropical cyclones grew but it was limited to the [[Atlantic hurricane]]s only. When 2013 started, if I'm thinking about tropical cyclones I frequently visited [[2013 Atlantic hurricane season]], and in particular the ''Seasonal summary'' section, which drew my eyes into when I didn't edit tropical cyclone articles yet.

In November 2013, however, as I'm becoming an uncle of one (now three), [[Typhoon Haiyan]] showed up. That typhoon which devastated the Southeast Asian brother country of [[Philippines]] caused my interest on tropical cyclones to grow outside of Atlantic hurricanes. Now I'm finally aware of what's happening in Pacific, and it was the first time that I learned that tropical cyclones are everywhere in the world, not just Atlantic. That time, I read [[2013 Pacific typhoon season]] as well as [[2013 Pacific hurricane season]] (I don't remember reading these kinds of articles before that). When I read about it, I also visited [[2013 Atlantic hurricane season]] once again and I was shocked by that it wasn't active! As such, I didn't watch tropical cyclones that much for most of 2014 and 2015. [[Hurricane Patricia]] didn't convince me enough to watch tropical cyclones again. In 2016, things changed again that led me to make my first edits on tropical cyclones in Wikipedia.

Once [[Hurricane Matthew]] came and with it significant coverage on Indonesia that I have never seen since [[Hurricane Sandy]], I finally watched tropical cyclones full-time for the first time. That hurricane was the cyclone that finally got me going for the tropical cyclones (not just the recent seasons, but the older seasons and also SHEM) and my quick-growing interest on tropical cyclones led me to find what made me uncomfortable. That led me to make my [[Special:Diff/769159196|first edit]] on tropical cyclone-related articles in Wikipedia - which was to add Central Pacific to a navigation template about [[Template:Leading tropical cyclones|leading tropical cyclones]] in March 7, 2017. Later that month, I made a second edit, which was to [[Special:Diff/772634979|remove a year from a link to Hurricane Omar]]. These additions are quite "cosmetic" (as said by ChessEric about Hurricane Michelle GA), but soon enough in the next month I found more things that made me more uncomfortable - they are legitimate vandalism. The first edit I made in that month was [[Special:Diff/773269575|to revert a vandalism]] on [[Hurricane Andrew]] (I edited it again after that, [[Special:Diff/773400693|which was to change mb to mbar]]). On the next day, I [[Special:Diff/773412675|fixed another vandalism]] in [[1954 Atlantic hurricane season]]. That isn't the end yet, as I found one more vandalism in [[Hurricane Dennis]], and I promptly [[Special:Diff/774525046|fixed]] [[Special:Diff/774525085|them]].

As I'm getting more invested on tropical cyclone articles, I've eventually heard and found out why some articles didn't have (XXXX year) in them - and it is because that they are [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC|primary topics]]. When I see some articles like [[Hurricane Linda (1997)]], which I thought they are primary topics (I eventually realized that they are not, and I have not requested moving these articles under WPTC banner ever since), I sought the same treatment in these kinds of articles that I thought was primary topics and thus I [[Special:Diff/776943557|requested]] [[Special:Diff/776948228|moves]] [[Special:Diff/776948671|in]] [[Special:Diff/776949417|many]] [[Special:Diff/776950470|of]] [[Special:Diff/776951222|these]] [[Special:Diff/776952135|said]] [[Special:Diff/776952665|articles]] [[Special:Diff/777633482|under that]] [[Special:Diff/777635459|thought]]. I believed that these requests will garner support by most of the WPTC members (which I thought will think for the same), but never did I know that these requests gained overwhelming opposes, primarily from WPTC members - and they talked to me about it. Of course, I panicked and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MarioJump83&oldid=791739541#Request_moves I have to withdraw some of these nominations].

That didn't stop me from editing more WPTC articles, and I started to do these requested moves again soon after. This is probably the most successful things I have ever done through my pre-WPTC membership career in the WPTC realm. After withdrawing some of these nominations, I began to work on a split of [[1940–49 Pacific typhoon seasons]] article by [[Talk:1940–49 Pacific typhoon seasons|starting the discussion on one]] in May 14. Two weeks later, as I said before, I [[Special:Diff/782523458|started]] [[Special:Diff/782521444|requesting]] [[Special:Diff/782520924|more]] [[Special:Diff/782520735|of]] [[Special:Diff/782520494|these]] [[Special:Diff/782520371|nominations]] [[Special:Diff/782519957|in a batch]] on May 27 - which was wildly successful (only one of them were failed, and that was Tropical Storm Bret of 1993). In a month after these nominations, and with the consensus for split, I finally worked on the split itself. [[1940 Pacific typhoon season]] and [[1949 Pacific typhoon season]] has been split from the article much more earlier, with [[User:Hurricanehink|Hurricanehink]] creating an article for the 1940 season in [[Special:PermaLink/609837696|May 23, 2014]] and Typhoon2013 split the 1949 section from the article in [[Special:PermaLink/755751147|December 19, 2016]]. I continued what Hurricanehink and Typhoon2013 has been doing, with copying content from the original article into the respective season articles. First, I [[Special:PermaLink/787739158|reverted]] [[Special:PermaLink/787735879|them]] [[Special:PermaLink/787735822|to the]] [[Special:PermaLink/787733478|original]] before Hurricanehink merged them. Afterwards, I [[Special:PermaLink/787742839|copied the]] [[Special:PermaLink/787740263| respective sections]] [[Special:PermaLink/787738882|from the original]] [[Special:PermaLink/787735466|into respective articles]] and removed the respective sections in the original article. From the IDs, you can notice that I did this not in order. Afterwards, I moved the original article into [[1941–44 Pacific typhoon seasons]] without moving it's talk page, which I want to admit was a mistake and made a major ramifications (I even started a RfD, which should not happen) in my attempts to get it back without getting it's talk page removed later in October 2020. Once moving the article, I created redirects for the recently moved article (which includes [[1941 Pacific typhoon season]], [[1942 Pacific typhoon season]], [[1943 Pacific typhoon season]], and [[1944 Pacific typhoon season]], all of which eventually turned into articles), and quickly changed redirects of the respective storms into the newly restored articles. It was a massive effort that day on June 27, 2017, and the experience that I never forgotten.

After that month, I returned into requesting moves once again for the third time, riding on the recent wave of successes. I requested the moves of [[Special:PermaLink/790524359|Hurricane Norman (1978)]] and [[Special:PermaLink/790521183|Hurricane Liza]]. Hurricane Liza move request was successful but Norman did not. By that point, the frustration from WPTC members are showing up and by the time I requested moving [[Talk:Typhoon Ida (1958)|Typhoon Ida (1958)]] into Typhoon Ida, I had to be stopped. I also moved [[Typhoon Pamela (1976)]] into [[Typhoon Pamela]] without any discussion, but you know my intentions by that point, and the move was soon reverted. I had a talk with [[User:Yellow Evan|Yellow Evan]] regarding these actions, and I soon relented, never requested any moves ever since. I didn't do much for the rest of the year - the most notable moves are moving disambiguation pages Tropical Storm Noru and Tropical Storm Banyan into [[Typhoon Noru]] and [[Typhoon Banyan]], respectively. Moving on to the next year, I did not do much once again. Most of the activity that year was working on the most of [[Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (2018)]] article. Keep in mind that I plan to return working on that article as a part of 2018 Global FT efforts, and that happened because [[User:KN2731|KN2731]] is going to take a break for most of this year.

Onto the 2019, I did something that I think planted the seeds for my future MoTM run and vast WPTC growth in 2020. Most of the activity in general involves creating links to the future articles, but I also fixed redirects for most 1930s seasons and created redirects for the rest of 1960s decade for NIO basin. I planned something greater than that, however, but because I had to use my phone and not my laptop (it was broken) I wasn't able to do so. That plan was a factor leading to me joining the WPTC in July 2020 (after I realized about the benefits of joining the WikiProjects) and I began realizing the plan as soon as I got my laptop back. What I did for the most of August 2020 and September 2020 was mostly set in stone back in the previous year, if you don't notice that. If I didn't plan it back in the day, I don't think I would ever got that MoTM (it would have been Destroyeraa most likely).

That was a story. It is a long story. It took me pains to get myself established in WPTC, but now here I am. If anyone could have invited me back in the year 2018, I would have rejected it like CyclonicallyDeranged, whom I believe has been driven out of Wikipedia. But coming to this year, I realized the benefits of joining the WikiProjects and now, as said by Hurricanehink, I became a vital editor for WPTC.
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