24 Quotes by Chris Landsea

With La Nina, you can expect not only more storms than average, but stronger storms, as well.

Everyone wants to know what's going to happen this coming season, given the horrible impacts of the last two years.

At this point, Rita has become a potentially very devastating Category 5 hurricane. Fortunately it's over the open ocean of the Gulf of Mexico, and will be over the open ocean for the next day. But we expect it to gradually make a turn to the north.

Back then forecasters didn't have satellites or even land-based radar. All they had were ships at sea.

That's not physically consistent with more intense storms, there's something fishy in that result.

It's a good way to end the record-breaking season. Why not have one more and be done with it?

It's not something we predicted, and I'm not sure it's something we can anticipate way in advance.

It's almost certain it will make landfall as a major hurricane -- Category 3 or Category 4.

It's getting to be a large-sized hurricane, ... If the storm hits Texas, some of the rain and the squall conditions will affect other areas as well and probably Louisiana.