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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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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Without faith institutions, you can't have a community. Their history is the history of the community.
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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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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 feel our ongoing forecast research will allow us to continue to improve our predictive skill.
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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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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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This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes,
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Both of these devices are promising. The kicker is long-term durability,
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We've had a very active season, but the probability of getting landfall in consecutive years like in 2004 and 2005 is very low.
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There is nothing to suggest the weather patterns will change to stop this season from reaching near-record status,
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We were very lucky in that eight-year period, and the luck just ran out. We always thought it would run out.
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No credible evidence is available or likely will be available soon that will directly associate global surface temperature change to changes in global hurricane frequency and intensity.
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Based on research data obtained through July, we foresee one of the most active hurricane seasons on record.