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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Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past,William Gray
We do not expect to see as many land-falling major hurricanes in the United States as we have experienced in 2004 and 2005.
William Gray
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.
William Gray
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.
William Gray
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.
William Gray
Small sea-surface temperature changes, there's no theory why they should make for more storms. Observations verify that. When we look back in a global point of view, in the last thirty years, there hasn't been a pick up in storms.
William Gray
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