User:CobraStrike

About Me (Just in General) Birthday - December 16

Age - 12 years old

Hometown: Austin, Texas

Height and Weight: 5'3" and 110 lbs

Ethnicity: Asian (Vietnamese)

Interests:
 * Weather (since 2003) 
 * ​Severe weather
 * Tropical cyclones (since 2003)
 * Tornadoes (since 2010)
 * Space (since 2003)
 * ​Stargazing (since 2005)
 * Geographical Facts (since 2004)
 * Skyscrapers (since 2004)

How I Became Interested in 'the Hurricane' It was back in the day when I was 3 years old. At the time, I was only interested in outer space. However, I started leaning torwards weather. The next year, I extended a branch of knowledge to hurricanes. At first, I didn't really track them down, but I listened to the news about hurricanes (those horrible Florida hurricanes) and got interested. To a greater extent, I continued to listen to the forecasting of hurricanes during the great 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season, although I still only focused on the Atlantic, where Texas was bordered on (technically). Thaty year I heard about Katrina and Wilma. 2006 was the third straight year of plain listening, although it wasn't very interesting due to the El Nino year (remember I only cared about the Atlantic basin at the time).It was really in 2007 that I began to actually research the topic of hurricanes and track them down. It first started with Hurricane Dean, the monster category 5 storm. I remember watching the satellite floater loops over and over again, every passing 30 minutes with Dean rushing past Jamaica and slamming into the Yucutan. My local news station, once known as News 8 Austin, did weather reports and forecasts every 8 minutes, but it did a tropical report every 48 minutes past the hour (the same format as the Weather Channel, I found out many years later). I would always watch the TV and wait for those 8 and 48 minutes just to get the latest scoop on hurricanes. I went on with Felix, the other category 5 storm that year, and the rest of the hurricanes that followed.The next year was even more in-depth for me and the hurricane season. That was one active season. I kept a sprial containing tracking information on all of the hurricanes. I tracked all the hurricanes and storms that year, especially Hurricanes Ike and Gustav. I also began using the internet as a tool for the weather, using floater loops and other services.2009 was another flimsy year, so I only tracked Ana, Bill, and the next storm (was in Claudette?). However 2010 was a great year in the tracking business. We barely had a landfalling storm in the US that year, but I had a great time tracking Hurricanes Alex, Danielle, Earl, and Igor, as well as all the other storms. I also had interests in the EPAC finally, starting with the impressive category 5 Celia.2011 was also a good year for tracking. That's when I was on the Hurricane Wikia, and I had a good time tracking Irene, the first "real" hurricane to hit the US (it's one of the costliest). I also used forums and other discussion sites to spread my knowledge.Now it's 2012, and I think it could be a tad quiet.

I Survived
I "survived" the following systems, except since I am 200+ miles from the Texas shore all the storms that come here are weaklings.
 * Tropical Storm Hermine (2010): Hermine was the best. As it passed <50 miles to the west, we experienced the "eyewall" of Hermine, bringing gusty winds and heavy rain.
 * Tropical Storm Erin (2007): Tropical Storm Erin made Texas landfall as a minimal tropical storm. As it motioned NW 35 miles south and southwest of us, the Austin area experienced the outer bands of Erin and then the inner tropical band which caused some severe flooding in Austin.

Hurricane Betting Pools - Predictions
Hello! Ever seen the hurricane betting pools? There, people "bet" (more like vote) on different hurricane categories! These are my predictions for the 2012 ATL season:

Dissipation Date of Last Storm
November 1 to 10 - I don't think El Nino will be as strong as predicted, but I think the season will end in early November from a storm that was born in October.

Strongest Storm Name
Helene - Helene will probably form in late August/early September - late enough so that there is still neutral ENSO (I think).

Highest Winds
140 mph - Helene to peak at 140 mph, which is a solid category 4 hurricane. Still, the lull in Category 5 activity persists.

Lowest Pressure
930 mbar - Correlating with the 140 mph winds in Helene.

Editing Milestones (by the 100)

 * 1000 edits: Projected - Late June
 * 900 edits: Projected - June 1, 2012 (~ 5 days)
 * 800 edits: Projected - May 27, 2012 (~7 days)
 * 700 edits: May 20, 2012 (254 days)
 * SEMI REITRING PERIOD - September 12, 2011 to May 19, 2012 (250 days [Trust me! That's a coincidence!])
 * 600 edits: September 9, 2011 (9 days)
 * 500 edits: August 31, 2011 (4 days)
 * 400 edits: August 27, 2011 (5 days)
 * 300 edits: August 22, 2011 (7 days)
 * 200 edits: August 15, 2011 (13 days)
 * 100 edits: August 2, 2011 (6 days)
 * 1 edit: July 27, 2011

My Time on the Hurricane Wikia
Starting in 2010 at the age of 10 I began working around in the Wikia system, carrying experience from editing Wikipedia. I was interested in hurricanes for a while, so I decided to work on the Hurricane Wikia, joining on July 27, 2011, well into the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. I quickly found work uploading images and editing articles, but I eventually found the forums and that's where my roots took hold. I didn't last very long on the Hurricane Wikia, but I stayed long enough to track Irene and a few succeeding weak storms before officially semi-retiring in September to attend and foucs on academic material from my middle school's hefty academic expectations.

As the school year winds down, I return to the Hurricane Wikia with improved knowledge.

This Wikia is For Young People (Seriously)
Never have I seen a forum and wiki with so many young people (below the age of 18). Let's see how old our fellow wikians are:
 * CobraStrike: 11 years old
 * Andrew444: 12 years old
 * Allanjeffs: 15 years old
 * Bob rulz: 18 years old

Other names in other spaces
I am across the interwebs, so I use a lot of names.
 * TheAustinMan: Wikimedia, WikiMapia
 * HurricaneStriker: Storm2K (inactive)
 * AGuyInAustin: Wunderground

Subpages
/Hurricane Infobox

How to Operate the Active Storms Template

The Best of National Hurricane Center Quotes

/Template Forum

/CobraStrike's Forecasting Centre