42 Quotes by William Gray

Without faith institutions, you can't have a community. Their history is the history of the community.

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.

We've had a very active season, but the probability of getting landfall in consecutive years like in 2004 and 2005 is very low.

There is nothing to suggest the weather patterns will change to stop this season from reaching near-record status,

We expect that by the time the 2005 hurricane season is over, we will witness seasonal tropical cyclone activity at near-record levels.

We feel our ongoing forecast research will allow us to continue to improve our predictive skill.

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes,

Both of these devices are promising. The kicker is long-term durability,

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.