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r/TropicalWeather

Tropical Weather. The intent of this subreddit is to provide a centralized location to discuss tropical cyclone, including their climatology, their development, their movement, and their impacts to life, property, and the environment. The moderator staff strives to minimize excessive speculation and fearmongering and to distribute and emphasize lifesaving information from official sources. Founded 2011 · 161.9K members

161.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 46.2K upvotes, which works out to 286 per 1,000 members.

286peak upvotes per 1,000 members
161.3Kmembers
46.2Kbest post
18.7Kmost comments
200posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

34% 29% 22% 13%
Text 34% Image 29% Link 22% Video 13% Question 2% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Photo 17 Satellite Imagery 15 Discussion 10 Humor 7 Video 4 Forecast Outlook | National Hurricane Center (Outdated) 3 Model Forecast Graphic 2 Dissipated 2 Video | YouTube | Explore Oceans 1 Advice 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

This is a message from St. John (US Virgin Islands) which was hit full force from Irma - They seriously need help. Sorry I don't know where to post t…

↑ 46.2K 💬 1.5K image 2017

I created an animation of Irma since it was a Category 2 by saving the Atlantic weather radar every couple of hours for the past week

↑ 8.8K 💬 360 video 2017

PSA: To those who are not evacuating -- Standard Operating Procedure for the National Guard and emergency services is to not send out first responder…

↑ 7.8K 💬 1K text 2016

Please don't be this guy, it's dangerous and a waste of fuel.

↑ 6.4K 💬 593 image 2019

Maria upgraded to a Cat 5 with 160 mph winds

↑ 5K 💬 823 image 2017

How to survive a Cat5- what Irma taught me.

↑ 4.8K 💬 448 text 2019

Satellite Image of Grand Bahama at 11:44am Monday. The yellow line is where the coast *should* be.

↑ 4.2K 💬 317 image 2019

A little humor to break the stress

↑ 4K 💬 142 image 2018

I want to apologize for making comments criticizing the SC Governor for evacuating Charleston early. I was wrong and my comments could have potential…

↑ 2.6K 💬 153 text 2018

Evacuating from a hurricane is not as easy as people like to pretend

↑ 2.5K 💬 425 text 2021

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/TropicalWeather, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/TropicalWeather?
r/TropicalWeather ("Tropical Weather") describes itself this way: The intent of this subreddit is to provide a centralized location to discuss tropical cyclone, including their climatology, their development, their movement, and their impacts to life, property, and the environment. The moderator staff strives to minimize excessive speculation and fearmongering and to distribute and emphasize lifesaving information from official sources. It was founded in 2011 and has 161.9K members.
How many members does r/TropicalWeather have?
r/TropicalWeather has about 161.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 46.2K upvotes, which is 286 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TropicalWeather?
"This is a message from St. John (US Virgin Islands) which was hit full force from Irma - They seriously need help. Sorry I don't know where " reached 46.2K upvotes and 1.5K comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TropicalWeather.
What subreddits are similar to r/TropicalWeather?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/TropicalWeather?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are text posts and 29% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TropicalWeather?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 14:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/TropicalWeather?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TropicalWeather has 1.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/TropicalWeather, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.