Talk:Invest (meteorology)

Why 90 to 99?

Why is only this range of numbers used for invests? 81.159.61.104 (talk) 15:57, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but it might be to avoid confusion with normal TDs and named storms, which start at 1. It might help to have a specially-reserved range for invests, so when say 95L is on the NRL page, people know it's an invest rather than something else, even without reading the .INVEST part, and when they actually form they are given a number, such as 08L. Hope this helps. Thanks. ~AH1^(TCU) 16:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

North Atlantic cyclones do not use a suffix, so "08L" actually should be simply "08". This is one big difference between invest numbers and TC numbers, as you see on the template table I furnished:

Tropical Cyclone Numbering
Basin(s)	Warning Center	Format	Example
N Atlantic	NHC	nn (nnL)​	06 (06L)
NE Pacific (E of 140°W)		nnE	09E
NC Pacific (E of IDL, W of 140°W)	CPHC	nnC	02C
NW Pacific (W of IDL)	JMA	yynn (nn, Tyynn)​	1330 (30, T1330)
	JTWC	nnW	10W
N Indian (Bay of Bengal)	IMD	BOB nn	BOB 03
	JTWC	nnB	05B
N Indian (Arabian Sea)	IMD	ARB nn	ARB 01
	JTWC	nnA	02A
Mediterranean	SAB	nnM	90M
SW Indian (W of 90°E)	MFR	nn (REnn)​	07 (RE07)
SW Indian & Australian reg. (W of 135°E)	JTWC	nnS	01S
Australian reg. (E of 90°E, W of 160°E)	BOM	nnU	08U
Australian reg. & S Pacific (E of 135°E)	JTWC	nnP	04P
S Pacific (E of 160°E)	FMS	nnF	11F
S Atlantic	NRL, NHC	nnQ	01Q
	UKMet	nnT	02T
Notes:

Hope this clears things up. SilSinn9821 (talk) 18:56, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

References

I agree, I think the "why" or reasons why the number range is limited to 90-99 should be included in the article/entry.

And as for avoiding confusion with other storm nomenclature, I think there'd be more confusion since there are years where there are multiple invest labels that are identical because they go through the 90-99 range several times. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 16:24, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Article Class

I have worked on the article and I think it has scraped Start Class. So I have upped its rating... feel free to change. User:Itfc+canes=me ^{Talk Contributions} 15:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Needs references, better structure, and organization. I'm inclined to downgrade it to Stub-class, but I'll leave it at Start. –Juliancolton ^{Happy Holidays} 15:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

It is borderline between Stub and Start. Best to leave it as start, since improvements are being made. Good luck finding any more references though. Invests are mainly for the internal use of tropical cyclone warning centers, and are a byproduct of running tropical cyclone guidance on tropical disturbances within the ATCF system. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:53, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Same thing twice in the article

"Invests are designated by three separate forecast centers: the National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The designation of a system as an invest does not necessarily correspond to any particular likelihood of development of the system into a tropical cyclone." This sentence comes out from the heading and from the subsecton Designation. Can we change this? Weatherlover819 (talk) 10:21, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Leads are supposed to be summaries of the article below. This can lead to repetition. Thegreatdr (talk) 04:59, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Just the FAQs, ma'am

New NHC link within their FAQ talking about invests. Thegreatdr (talk) 15:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Suffixes

Uncommon suffixes are not standardized (film at 11). Various sources report either as Invest 90SL or Invest 90Q, according to respectively NHC or NRL, the current unpleasantness off the coast of Brazil. ElPeste (talk) 03:39, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

There is no standardized letter for the South Atlantic, investwise. Thegreatdr (talk) 17:17, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Does anybody know what suffix is used for JTWC-tracked invests (or even TCs for that matter) originating in the Southwest Indian Ocean (those officially monitored/named by Meteo-France and Madagascar), as opposed to those forming west of Australia but still within Australian/Indonesian area of responsibility (the S suffix)? SilSinn9821 (talk) 19:04, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Its the S.Jason Rees (talk) 23:18, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Stub-ness

After all the additions and reorganizations I made here, does this article still need to be marked as a stub? SilSinn9821 (talk) 04:51, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Rotation section and parentheses

The rotation section contains a number of long parenthetical stuff (including semicolons). Should be broken up into more manageable sentences to read more smoothly. 173.90.75.20 (talk) 13:40, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

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