Welcome to WikiProject Weather's Non-tropical storms task force, a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of non-tropical storms, including extratropical cyclones, winter storms, blizzards, nor'easters, and European windstorms. The project was first developed on December 23, 2007, as a daughter project of the WikiProject Meteorology and a sister project of WikiProject Tropical cyclones and WikiProject Severe weather. In 2021, the former project became a task force of WikiProject Weather, along with other weather-related WikiProjects.
Parent projectWikiProject Weather is the parent WikiProject of WPNTS. Sister task forcesTo make articles for notable non-tropical systems.
These are the following goals set by this task force to be completed.
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Click to watch (Subscribe via RSS Atom) · Find Article Alerts for other topics! Active membersPlease sign your name at the bottom of this list if you want to join the task force. Once you have added your name to the list, you can add our userbox, {{ User Non-tropical}} to your userpage, subscribe to our newsletter, or join the WikiProject Weather IRC channel or Discord server. You can invite someone using this template here: {{WP:WPNTS/Invite}}. You can use {{WP:WPNTS/W}} or {{WP:WPNTS/Welcome}} to welcome a new user to the task force.
BotIn 2013, WxBot was created to assist the former project and other meteorology-related projects. As the bot runs through AutoWikiBrowser, only tasks that can be performed in AWB can be performed by the bot. Click here to make a request for the bot to perform a task. AwardsMembers of the Non-tropical storms task force are allowed to participate in the Tropical cyclones task force's award system; you can see it here. Also, we have our own barnstar, which is shown below. You can award anyone who contributed exceptionally to the articles under the task force's scope or contributed greatly to the task force using this: {{subst:The Extra-Tropical Cyclone Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}. For the alternate version, you can use {{subst:The Extra-Tropical Cyclone Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~|2=alt}}.
CompetitionsNon-tropical storms task force editors are also allowed and encouraged to take part in the Tropical cyclones task force's annual competition, the Cyclone Cup. The game is based on the WikiCup, another annual event that involves the wider Wikipedia community. Several templates exist for use by WPNTS writers and editors. You can find them listed at Category:Non-tropical storms templates.
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