Chance to meet NHC director Bill Read

[Derek Ortt]

http://www.miamiams.org/seminars/June26_08.html

this is a chance for everyone to meet Bill Read. At 7 p.m., June 26 at RSMAS, the greater Miami chapter of the AMS and RSMAS will have NHC director Bill Read as a speaker. This event is open to all, free of charge. Mr. Read will discuss the current state of hurricane forcasting. Directions are included in the link provided above.

I look forward to seeing many from south Florida at the event

[wxman57]

Derek,

I was sitting in the airport at New Orleans a few weeks ago and thought I saw Bill Read walk by and head to a pizza place. I got up and walked down the hall and it was him. Turned out we were on the same plane back to Houston. We talked for a bit while waiting for the plane. Found out that they have programmers rewriting the very old SLOSH program line-by-line. They hope to have the new version finished by the 2009 season. The new version will be able to update coastal data online (terrain changes, etc.). Should be a vast improvement over that old low-res version.

[Derek Ortt]

I'll have to ask him about these changes on the 26th. . I'm curious as to the improvements made to this classic, but time tested model

[Derek Ortt]

those who are planning on attending from here, could you please let us kinow. We would like to know how much to spend on refreshments?

[Jinkers]

I wish I could, but I have to work. It would be awesome to meet him

[Derek Ortt]

I have written a summary of the meeting in my PNJ blog. It can be found here

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/sectio ... fe.pnj.com