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Cone signal

I believe a cone on a pole was used as a visual gale warning in the UK from 1860 to at least the 1930s & possibly mid-20th century. The orientation of the cone indicated the wind direction. I think this would be worth adding to the article, especially if a picture could be found. I'll do a bit more digging, but feel free to preempt me. Note: there is an Irish Times article that may be a suitable source; not much else online. D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 16:33, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Split?

Any thoughts about splitting the High Wind Warning and Gale Warning into two separate articles? The land based alert generally has a different criteria compared to the marine-based Gale Warning. Pinging @WeatherWriter, @EF5, and @Hurricanehink for their thoughts. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 19:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If anything, I would rather have one single article for various types of weather warnings issued by the National Weather Service. Glossary of National Weather Service advisories? And then leave long-established warnings like gale warning around the world. Or maybe even merge gale warning with gale, once there is an article for all of the NWS products. Pinging @Jason Rees for thoughts. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Gale warning is issued by/for too many countries for it to be too be specific to just the United States; in fact, Hink is probably right when he says that Gale Warning should probably be merged with Gale. As for the single article about the NWS warnings, we seem to have one with Severe weather terminology (United States).Jason Rees (talk) 00:36, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yea. Gale warning is only as useful as a term as "gale" is, but "High Wind Warning" is a specific NWS term that probably isn't known or specific enough to have its own article, IMO. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My issue is the fact that we already have a (stub) article about the Wind Advisory product. What I’m getting at is splitting the land based alert since High Wind Warnings are issued only on land and Gale Warnings only for marine areas. Plus there are other countries besides the United States that issue High Wind Warnings or variants thereof. Environnement Canada issues a “Wind Warning” which equates to the same thing. Not to mention the 4-tiered wind warning system that Germany has. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 00:41, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wind Advisory had an AFD and had a mixed history over whether it should have even existed in the first place. I don't think there is a lot of history or information about that specific type of weather advisory. I believe each country's weather system might be notable enough for their own articles, but not individual advisories, like Environment Canada's "Wind Warning". ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:44, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’ll add that the Canadian “Wind Warning” is generally issued at the same criteria that an NWS High Wind Warning is issued for. South Korea also uses the same “Wind Warning” term that Canada uses (although I don’t entirely know what the criteria is). Japan uses the term “Wind Storm Warning” and “Wind Storm Emergency Warning”. New Zealand uses the term “Strong Wind Warning” with a color (orange or red) appended to it. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 00:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In other words; at least five other countries have similar warnings. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 00:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, those country's weather warnings could probably each have articles. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:46, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But as for Germany; I already have a source explaining the criteria of everything, albeit in German. Maybe we should start a Draft:Severe weather terminology (Germany) draft. Source: https://www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/warnungen_aktuell/kriterien/warnkriterien.html?nn=605882 Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 00:49, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, I think it's useful going at a country level. It might take a while to get to weather warnings in Nauru, but perhaps one day! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I withdraw my request for splitting the article; but I do encourage someone to help me with the draft that way I don’t get a “bad faith red warning” on copyright. Because DWD content is NOT in the public domain. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 01:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m pretty sure I can also find the criteria of alerts from New Zealand MetService as well. So I think the New Zealand draft can also be created. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 01:05, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it’s probably best to move this to WT:WikiProject Weather that way more people are aware of the drafts. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 01:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]