CycloneCenter Participation for February 2015

Welcome to March. With another month under our belt and another milestone reached, CycloneCenter had a really good month.

Sea-breeze storms over Florida and Cuba

This month we had  nearly 10,000 classifications and surpassed 400,000 for the project so far!

This month also saw Atms345_KJD replace mcrisalli1 on the Bretarn Board  (which tracks total contributions from each scientist). Atms345_KJD now has 2561 classifications and is 13th all time.

For January 2015, we had 9985 classifications of 682 storms from 402 citizen scientists (with 57 returning scientists and 345 new this month).

This month’s storm image is from a talk post from cch001. It shows an interesting situation over the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean where most of the land areas are covered with deep convection (which are really tall clouds). I spent the summer of 1992 (a year after this photo) in Miami doing some programming for the University of Miami. As a young guy from Maine, I was introduced to the most lightning I had ever experienced.  The sea breeze storms rolled in the same time each day with massive lightning and heavy rain. Sea breeze storms are caused by air over land heating up faster than the surrounding ocean. This causes the land areas to have lots of rain and clouds while the surrounding seas are clear and calm. You can learn more about sea breezes at this NOAA site.

When classifying, ask questions and make comments on our Talk page to learn more about weather and hurricanes.

Thank you to all for making CycloneCenter.org a great success! Keep making classifications.

Top 10 most active citizen scientists for January 2015.

Classifications	Scientist
2569	baha23
783	Kazesim
578	ewright1
575	Atms345_KJD
513	CatVaughan
510	jcrick
286	JoannaKK
203	IronWhale
203	HurricaneTracker
197	cch001

The Bretarn Board: Most active citizen scientists overall.

Classifications	Scientist
29,681	baha23
24,378	bretarn
11,376	shocko61
10,907	peterthorne
6536	skl6284
6484	cch001
5372	astroboyOW
4719	Stephen Morley
4569	tdw1203
4034	chrisotahal
3194	velthove
3172	tpatch
2561	Atms345_KJD

Baja Award: Most active citizen scientists each month.

Month	Number	User
Sep 2012	658	atomic7732
Oct 2012	3667	chrisotahal
Nov 2012	3276	bretarn
Dec 2012	2747	bretarn
Jan 2013	2555	shocko61
Feb 2013	1714	shocko61
Mar 2013	1998	bretarn
Apr 2013	1474	ATMS103LGB
May 2013	1451	astroboyOW
Jun 2013	1084	bretarn
Jul 2013	976	Geeklette
Aug 2013	1051	skl6284
Sep 2013	431	tdw1203
Oct 2013	2733	baha23
Nov 2013	3737	baha23
Dec 2013	500	Atms345_ssc
Jan 2014	3064	baha23
Feb 2014	3455	baha23
Mar 2014	4610	baha23
Apr 2014	611	peterthorne
May 2014	303	bretarn
Jun 2014	959	mcrisalli1
Jul 2014	1214	mcrisalli1
Aug 2014	1008	peterthorne
Sep 2014	1163	peterthorne
Oct 2014	4665	Stephen Morley
Nov 2014	933	peterthorne
Dec 2014	942	volunteerguy
Jan 2015	578	skl6284
Feb 2015	783	Kazesim

Postscript

Keep coming back to CycloneCenter.org site as we approach half a million classifications.