User blog:Money Hurricane/Hypothetical Hurricanes News – Launch

July 2, 2017 — Today, something new is coming to Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki, something that has never been done before. Today, we are launching Hypothetical Hurricanes News, the weekly electronic-newspaper that will feature everything that has happened over the past 7 days on our wiki. You no longer have to be there in real time to get the full scoop, we have it right here.

Tropical Trouble?
Everyone on the wiki has been pretty hyped about the development of an Atlantic tropical wave. It has been marked by the NHC, and has a 10% chance of development in the next 2 days, 50% chance in the next five. What's most interesting about this wave is that it is in a region that typically doesn't see development until very late July; it's only July 2! The GFS, UKMET, and now the CMC have jumped onto the train of models expecting development of this system. The Euro is holding back for now, but that may change. With July 2016 fresh on everybody's minds, this certainly is exciting.

Lack of Users. What the Hell is Going On?
The 2017 Atlantic usercane season is certainly having a 2013, if you know what I mean. So far this year, a bunch of userstorms have formed, yes, but only 1 has reached category 1 (Chat Moderator) or higher. To date, no major usercanes (Junior Administrator+) have formed. By this time of last year, we had plenty of each in all 3 of the mentioned categories! So, the question is, what is going on? We don't really know.

It's gotten to the point that a discussion was held early in the week suggesting that some higher-ranking administration members will be facing potential demotion if the user drought does not end. No clear consensus was reached, with both sides (for and against such action) having a generally equal amount of supporters. I, personally, oppose such action.

A Valuable Asset Retires
This week, we said goodbye to a good friend and fellow administrator on the wiki, Minecraft8369. We will miss him greatly, and I certainly hope he comes by to visit. Unfortunately, this makes MC the 5th administration member (I may be missing someone) to retire in 2017. That is disappointing, as all of them were awesome users. Goodbye, MC.

In Other News
Besides that, nothing major occurred on the wiki. The week was relatively quiet, especially since the latest Fandom update knocked out Chat for several days. Chat is now back up and operational, however.

This wraps up the first Hypothetical Hurricanes News weekly update on HHW. See you on Sunday, July 9th!

— Reporter James