Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/Featured pictures

Here is a list of pictures on the Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia, which have been voted as a featured picture, and fall under the scope of WikiProject Weather. Featured pictures are images from highly skilled creators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site.

Featured pictures

Ice storms

Only 2 pictures under the category of ice storm have reached the status of featured picture on the Wikimedia Commons.

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Lightning

Only 14 pictures under the category of lightning have reached the status of featured picture on the Wikimedia Commons.

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  Lightning strikes a conifer in 2018. Photographed by Friedrich Haag.[1]
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Tornadoes

Only five pictures under the category of tornadoes have reached the status of featured picture on the Wikimedia Commons.

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  The 2007 Elie F5 tornado photographed by Justin Hobson (Justin1569).[2]
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  A radar loop from a Doppler on Wheels during the VORTEX2 project, capturing a tornado in June 2009.[3]
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  A home destroyed in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, by a tornado on May 24, 2010. Photographed by FEMA.[4]
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  Eight images shot as a tornado formed north of Minneola, Kansas in 2016. Photographed by JasonWeingart.[5]
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  A house destroyed, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, by an intense EF3 tornado on April 30, 2023. Photographed by the National Weather Service.[6]

Tropical cyclones

Only X pictures under the category of tropical cyclone have reached the status of featured picture on the Wikimedia Commons.

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  Photo taken of Hurricane Florence convection with deep eyewall in Atlantic Sea from ISS by astronaut Alexander Gerst.[7]

Pictures which failed featured picture votes

Tornadoes

This gallery contains photographs in the category of Tornadoes, which failed nomination votes to become a featured picture. Do not renominate these images unless you have reasons not mentioned in the featured picture vote on why it should be a featured picture.

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  The Keota–Wellman, Iowa EF4 tornado photographed by A.Wehrle.[8]
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  An aerial photograph, from the Oklahoma National Guard, of homes destroyed by the 2013 Moore tornado.[9]
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  A duplex in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, that was completely destroyed by a violent EF4 tornado, on March 24, 2023.[10]
• A tornado, photographed by Chris Spannagle, in Oklahoma on November 7, 2011.[11]
  A tornado, photographed by Chris Spannagle, in Oklahoma on November 7, 2011.[11]
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