William Gray
William Gray
American attorney who served as a federal judge. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in 1966.
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth26 March 1912
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The last major storm to come through Florida, before Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992, was Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which went through the Keys.
change patterns reaching season stop suggest weather
There is nothing to suggest the weather patterns will change to stop this season from reaching near-record status,
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There have been a heck of a lot of storms in the Caribbean in the last 11 years. You've dodged a bunch of them. In any one year the probability of a major storm striking the Virgin Islands is low, but you'll at least be watching more storms pass to the north and south of you than in the down period from 1970 to 1994.
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We have always believed that the atmosphere will act in the future as it has in the past. This assumption can fail in some years but when applied over a period of several years we find that the atmosphere and ocean does indeed have a long period memory in most years.
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We expect that by the time the 2005 hurricane season is over, we will witness seasonal tropical cyclone activity at near-record levels.
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We expect a season nearly as active as this year's (1998),
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We feel our ongoing forecast research will allow us to continue to improve our predictive skill.
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This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes,
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We've called for 12 storms and have seen two thus far, but in our experience that doesn't suggest anything about the overall season,
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The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.
blame humans
We shouldn't try to blame humans for all of this.
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We feel the 1999 season will be comparable to the one just past and not too much weaker than the 1995 and 1996 seasons, both of which were very busy. Climatic evidence strongly suggests that we are embarking on a new era of enhanced major hurricane activity.
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Won't happen to us. This leg's got more luck in it.
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The fact that this storm is moving at a good clip is favorable for getting stronger,