32 Quotes by Max Mayfield

We're still in the peak of the season here, that goes for another month or so. (It) makes me think that not only will we have more storms and hurricanes, but we could have another major hurricane or two,

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,

I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.

If that is not a superb forecast, I don't know what is.

People need to understand that the greatest potential for large loss of life is from the storm surge flooding near the coastline,

I think everybody is going to say we're going to have an above-average season here.

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

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,

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.