Forum for active storms

[wx247]

Thanks Marshall!

[tolakram]

Just now read this. Great idea. I would really like the observational threads to contain good observations and Q&A so I can better understand the storm.

[cycloneye]

The staff will review all of what occured with the Dean activity in the forum and may bring some new ideas and consider some of the suggestions that the members posted and will be implemented for the next cycle of activity here so stay tuned.

[KWT]

Its an interesting idea but IMO the problem with this is that while all well and good for hurricanes like Dean which don't threaten the USA, as soon as one does it'll get center stage and will very much become the dominant thread over any other threatened places and people will start posting about the system in the dominant thread and it would require possibly a lot of moving about with regards to posts.

The forum I'm a host on tried something like this before and it sort of worked when the hit zones had about the same amount of posters, but as soon as say the SE England was threatened by, lets say heavy snow, that thread became the center point and the others sort of were forgotten about. While I don't think it would happen quite the same way here I'd suspect that the USA thread would get 85-90% of the posts.

However if you don't give it a try you won't know how well it could work.
I'd guess you'll do something similar with Dean in terms of landfall threads, it could work providing it doesn't become another excuse to chat in a thread, if a similar thing that was with Dean could be put in place then it could work.