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 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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Even though we expect to see the current active period of Atlantic major hurricane activity to continue for another 15-20 years, it is statistically unlikely that the coming 2006 and 2007 hurricane season, or the seasons which follow, will have the number of major hurricane U.S. landfall events as we have seen in 2004-2005.
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Unfortunately, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October.
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These numbers aren't extreme, but they continue the trend in which hurricane activity appears to be on a multi-decadal upswing.
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All of the climate signals in the Atlantic Basin that we've been monitoring are very positive for above-average storm activity this year,
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In cold years you have more activity than in warm years,
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The United States has been very lucky over the past three decades in witnessing very few major hurricanes making landfall in Florida and along the East Coast,
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Both of these devices are promising. The kicker is long-term durability,
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Even though the U.S. has experienced six major hurricane strikes since August 2004, in terms of the number of U.S. major hurricane strikes during the last 11 years (nine of 43, versus one of three for the century-long average) we have been, from this perspective, somewhat fortunate,
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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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There's no way we could have known this season would be that active. We did call it right. We did go above average last year.
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We expect a season nearly as active as this year's (1998),
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We do not expect to see as many land-falling major hurricanes in the United States as we have experienced in 2004 and 2005.