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2008: Hurricane Gustav made landfall in Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. A weather station recorded a wind gust of 184 knots (212 mph; 341 km/h), which at the time was thought to be the strongest wind gust from a tropical cyclone on record.
1952: Hurricane Able moved ashore near Beaufort, South Carolina, causing flooding and heavy crop damage.
1958: Hurricane Ella made landfall on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, killing 30 people in Les Cayes.
1937: A severe typhoon struck Hong Kong with wind gusts over 130 knots (150 mph; 240 km/h), killing 11,000 people.
1989: Cubana de Aviación Flight 9646 flew into a thunderstorm and crashed shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport near Havana, Cuba, killing 150 people (126 on board plus 24 people on the ground). The crash was caused by downburst-induced wind shear resulting in an abrupt loss of altitude.
1933: The strongest hurricane to strike the United States during the hyperactive 1933 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall near Jupiter, Florida.
1966: Hurricane Faith struck the Faroe Islands as the northernmost tropical cyclone in history, with winds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
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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I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the spring of 2008. I completed my Major Qualifying Project around the same time: a search for sand dune movement on Mars. I hope to turn it into an article at some point (see User:Runningonbrains/Aeolian processes on Mars if you'd like to help).
My main interest, however, is in meteorology, and I do a lot of research on the topic. At Texas A&M University I received my Master of Science in atmospheric science in August of 2011. My research involved baroclinic waves the Martian atmosphere, and my results were published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
I currently work as an Associate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working in the Research Applications Laboratory. I work on a bunch of different projects, including work on the operational NWP models, HRRR and GFS-FV3.
As far as my time on Wikipedia, my contributions will mainly be towards meteorology articles (especially tornadoes and other meso- to microscale phenomena), Mars, computer modeling and related subjects. I am the primary maintainer of Portal:Weather, however, I am currently fairly inactive due to my continuing adult responsibilities and recreations. I may become more active one of these days, but I'm probably kidding myself: there's too many things to do in this world that don't involve sitting behind a computer.
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During and after my project to improve Tornado, I created a long list of tornado-related articles.
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)
Big surprise, more weather-related articles!
Was highly active in restarting WikiProject Meteorology, and created a new sub-project WikiProject Severe Weather.
Overhauled the Weather Portal, eventually improving it into a Featured Portal. I am currently actively maintaining this portal.
So, about me, huh?
As I said, I have a BS in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After graduating, I attended Western Connecticut State University part-time for a year, taking atmospheric/oceanic science courses, before transferring to Texas A&M University's atmospheric science program. I graduated with a MS in atmospheric science in 2011, and in 2012 got a job at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. I've been obsessed with nature, especially meteorology, since I was very young. My first storm experience was in utero, when my mom was in the eye of Hurricane Gloria. At 10 a tornado skipped over my house, downing several trees in my back yard. Among my craziest childhood experiences were sitting outside with a -40ºF wind chill to watch blowing snow, climbing a mountain during a Nor'easter with 60 mph winds at the top, and getting caught in a hailstorm which formed right on top of me. As an adult, I now am lucky enough to live right next to tornado alley, and have been on dozens of storm chases that have yielded so many tornadoes I have lost count.
I also enjoy skiing, hiking, camping, and rock climbing.
Hopefully, someday, I'll get to sit through a good hurricane.
*No, randonimity is not a word, but it sounds cool
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