Talk:Tornadoes of 2025

I'm Back (For Real This Time)

Hey everyone, first off Happy New Year to you all! Just wanted to let everyone know I am finally returning to Wikipedia. I was a major contributor to tornado articles for over a decade, but a serious decline in my mental health made me unable to work with others and contribute in a constructive way starting earlier this year. After lots of time, I am happy to announce that I have made a full recovery. I'm very sorry for how abrasive and nasty I was toward the end of my last period of editing. I was not myself, but I feel better than I have in years, and am ready to contribute and work with everyone here again. I'm a "fine details" guy, and will be starting my editing back in the July 2023 section, and slowly move forward to 2024, and eventually 2025. Needless to say, I have a massive backlog to get through. Props to everyone to kept everything together while I was away, and I'm elated to see that a lot of new editors have improved their skills dramatically since I last checked. Cheers, and I look forward to getting back to it!

TornadoInformation12 (talk) 03:18, 3 January 2025 (UTC)TornadoInformation12

I forgive you, and am so glad you're back! I've been looking for that edit counter to bump up; it was a wild year since May, and I'm glad we now have another experienced editor back in the ranks. :) Formerly Memegod, E_F⁵ 03:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

You've done great work while I was away! Stoked to finally work together!

TornadoInformation12 (talk) 03:26, 3 January 2025 (UTC)TornadoInformation12

Thank you! Likewise, I'm also stoked, and glad we can put our past behind us. :) E_F⁵ 03:28, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

No hard feelings! I'm mostly going to be sticking to 2023 for now. One thing I do want to clear up though, is it appears there is something wrong in the monthly table for January 9 and 10 of 2024. It says "Section 'January 9 event' not found" and "Section 'January 10 event' not found". I really want to fix this before I get started on 2023 stuff. Is anyone aware of this or have any idea how to fix it? I tried but with no success.

TornadoInformation12 (talk) 03:35, 3 January 2025 (UTC)TornadoInformation12

It appears to be a bug with the header titles, so I've went ahead and manually added them with a hatnote. E_F⁵ 03:56, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I couldn't figure out what the issue was.

TornadoInformation12 (talk) 04:27, 3 January 2025 (UTC)TornadoInformation12

Your presence is greatly appreciated as I felt like I, WeatherWriter, and TimCigar12 had to take the lead for many things for awhile and I was so drained that I felt like quitting at times and had to take a step back. ChessEric 06:58, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Cali tornado

I see this has been bold removed, so I've re-added it, further discussion can go here. The first tornado in the United States in 2025 happened in California, of all places! Very rare place for a tornado to occur in January, we also have a PD video of this tornado which I'll upload shortly. E_F⁵ 18:52, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I feel like there is zero reason to have this as California has had over 50 recorded tornadoes in January. 50 may same like not many but California has only had 460 recorded tornadoes since 1950, which means roughly 11% of the tornadoes in California have happened in the month of January. I'll put the other months of the year here for reference:

--FOR CALIFORNIA--

January - 11%

February - 15%

March - 18%

April - 12%

May - 9%

June - 3%

July - 3%

August - 5%

September - 6%

October - 4%

November - 7%

December - 10%

Doing the math makes this not as rare as it seems. So that's my two cents. I'm all for adding tornadoes in odd areas regardless of rating but this really isn't an odd one. Timcigar12 (talk) 19:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Also I know it doesn't add up to 100%, I rounded percentages lol Timcigar12 (talk) 19:44, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Has the first US tornado of a year ever been in California, though? /gen E_F⁵ 19:45, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1990, 2010, and 2016. Timcigar12 (talk) 20:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

It's actually not as rare as you think for California to have tornadoes as Timcigar12 pointed out. They actually see a fair number of tornadoes during the year. The main difference is that their tornadoes are typically weak and/or not notable, so we don't include them in the main page all that often. ChessEric 21:45, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't think it's really notable that it's the first tornado of the year. Unless it's something exceedingly rare, like a tornado in Alaska, I don't think we should be listing a tornado that caused no damage. TornadoLGS (talk) 22:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC)