Paladin of Storms

Welcome to Paladin of Storms, Kalassak's personal homepage. On this site you will find many of my projects and experiments which are able to find their way to the internet. Most of the stuff here is outdated and I've probably forgotten about it, but I'm working on tidying up the website. In the navbar above you can find most major tools and pages which I currently maintain to some extent.

The Tropical Cyclone Data Network is my main project focusing mostly on archiving, organizing, and visualizing tropical cyclone data. There, you can find information on active cyclones, live satellite loops of the cyclone basins, archived advisory data, cyclone track maps, and other useful information pertaining to the history and records of tropical cyclones worldwide.

The Pacific Tropical Prediction Center is a personal cyclone tracking project whose extent is limited to the Pacific Ocean. It has been operational off and on with best tracks for many Pacific storms back to 2012. I would like to, in the future, extend the scope of PTPC to predict more regularly as well as produce rainfall and wind forecasts.

Under the Other tab you can find worldbuilding/conlang related tools. You can also find resources for hosting the Univision Song Contest (flags/used song list), as well as the race viewer for Formula Universalis.

This website also continues to host the official Universalis Wiki, a database compiled about the Universe Sandbox Forum's mostly abandoned worldbuilding project of its namesake—Universalis. The most recent incarnation of the collaborative worldbuilding project is Pavala. Its wiki can be found at Fiah's Re-explored.

Outdated projects will probably be found in the future at a page like this one with a list of old, unmaintained but potentially useful pages I have created, unfinished and all.

What else is on this site? I don't know, you'll have to find out.

News

November 25, 2019 — The historic tropical cyclone track tool was updated to support storms from the 2019-20 southern hemisphere and upcoming 2020 northern hemisphere cyclone seasons. I am currently working on updating the 2018 and 2019 track data, as well as the live TCKE output. I also made some small changes to the TCDN main page.

October 25, 2019 — The wiki, which had ceased to work properly as a result of a PHP update, was upgraded.

Recent Projects

Atmosphere Engine

I am currently working on an "atmosphere engine" which simulates realistic cyclone tracks throughout a season. Eventually the engine will be used as a basis for a tropical cyclone forecasting game.

Tropical Cyclones

In 2015, I rebooted my online TC project(s). You can find tools, data, and imagery (including the advisory archiver previously known as pywx) here.