Max Mayfield
Max Mayfield
Britt Max Mayfieldis a meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 2000 to 2007. As director, Mayfield became a trusted voice in preparing for weather-related disasters, particularly those involving tropical storms and hurricanes...
eye focus
Don't just focus on the eye of the hurricane,
category cause damage solid storm wind
We're very concerned. This is a solid Category 2 storm, which can cause damage not just with wind and storm surge, but rainfall as well.
hide water
We like to tell people, 'flee the water and hide from the wind,'
certainly large loss potential timing
The timing is certainly working in our favor, ... that potential for large loss of life.
category coast florida large life lives loss lost potential thousand
We had well over a thousand lives lost in Katrina. If Wilma, you know, comes into the US, to the Florida coast as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, that potential for large loss of life is with us.
averaged fewer major number
The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.
closer computer keeping keeps latest somewhat track
Most of (the latest computer projections on the storm's path) are keeping Debby in a more southerly track and that keeps it somewhat closer to Hispaniola and to Cuba,
everybody season
I think everybody is going to say we're going to have an above-average season here.
certain happen hoping
We were hoping that it would weaken some before it makes landfall. We're not certain that will happen now.
anybody breach
I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.
close forecast large life loss major potential seriously stays track
If Isabel stays close to our forecast track and if it does make landfall as a major hurricane, it has the potential for large loss of life if we don't take it seriously and prepare,
bet next several worried
You bet I'm worried about next year, and several years after that,
feet higher miles orleans
When New Orleans was founded, it was 10 or 12 feet higher and it was 100 miles from the coast, ... Now it's the coast.
area bad hurricane takes
It just takes that one hurricane over your area that makes for a very bad year.