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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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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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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This in turn has led to a number of Atlantic Ocean and global oceanic circulation changes that have brought on more major storms during the past four years. The pattern is very similar to what was occurring in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
past storms unlucky
In the past two years we've had two unlucky years. Globally, storms aren't getting worse, just in the Atlantic.
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The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn't changed, ... If I'm proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.
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We actually think the probability of the East Coast being hit with storms is almost twice what the long term average is for this year.
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We expect a season nearly as active as this year's (1998),
luck lucky ran run
We were very lucky in that eight-year period, and the luck just ran out. We always thought it would run out.
blame humans
We shouldn't try to blame humans for all of this.
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The fact that this storm is moving at a good clip is favorable for getting stronger,
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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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Unfortunately, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October.
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Unfortunately, the very active season we have seen to this point is not yet over.
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We're going to be seeing a $50 billion-, $70 billion-, $100 billion-damage storm. Florida is a sitting duck.