No, I don't believe this, but for those of us who wish Max the best it's wishful thinking...
Max Mayfield and 2006 season...
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Max Mayfield and 2006 season...
File this under hopeful conspiracy theory, but I think Max is stepping down after this season since he has perfected a hurricane control machine (he was just waiting for something as big as the 2005 season to give him enough data to perfect it!) and now no hurricanes hit the USA, so he's going into the private sector to sell it.
No, I don't believe this, but for those of us who wish Max the best it's wishful thinking...
No, I don't believe this, but for those of us who wish Max the best it's wishful thinking...
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I don't think Max's machine will work for very long...
The East Pacific is on track for a very busy season - I have a feeling we'll see some more majors; at least one of them getting slammed into Mexico by an October trough...2006 will probably use up most of the alphabet in the Epac, but it won't reach the El Nino fueled insanity that was 1997. It'll be busy, but luckily so far Ioke has been the only Cat 5. It's a lucky thing for us that this year's El Nino is going to peak in winter or spring...expect a busy South Pacific season. The Western Pacific seems a bit below average, but we have a Cat4 typhoon spinning right now and China took a brutal beating early in the season.
And through it all, we're already on our 8th storm of the season and it's the middle of September. Turns out that despite everybody's changing predictions the 2006 Atlantic season is turning out to be a pretty average season in the Atlantic since 1995. For the rest of the year things should ramp down slowly after early-mid October. 2002, another El Nino year, shut down right after Lili made landfall on 10/4. Seems like the deep troughing pattern won't allow anything like Lili or Wilma to form, but a storm similar to Opal wouldn't be out of the question...stay on your toes just in case.
I hope Max Mayfield's successor is as great a meteorologist and communicator as he is, because after El Nino comes La Nina. The machine might need a little tweaking in 2007.
By the way I am not a doctor. (or a meteorologist
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The East Pacific is on track for a very busy season - I have a feeling we'll see some more majors; at least one of them getting slammed into Mexico by an October trough...2006 will probably use up most of the alphabet in the Epac, but it won't reach the El Nino fueled insanity that was 1997. It'll be busy, but luckily so far Ioke has been the only Cat 5. It's a lucky thing for us that this year's El Nino is going to peak in winter or spring...expect a busy South Pacific season. The Western Pacific seems a bit below average, but we have a Cat4 typhoon spinning right now and China took a brutal beating early in the season.
And through it all, we're already on our 8th storm of the season and it's the middle of September. Turns out that despite everybody's changing predictions the 2006 Atlantic season is turning out to be a pretty average season in the Atlantic since 1995. For the rest of the year things should ramp down slowly after early-mid October. 2002, another El Nino year, shut down right after Lili made landfall on 10/4. Seems like the deep troughing pattern won't allow anything like Lili or Wilma to form, but a storm similar to Opal wouldn't be out of the question...stay on your toes just in case.
I hope Max Mayfield's successor is as great a meteorologist and communicator as he is, because after El Nino comes La Nina. The machine might need a little tweaking in 2007.
By the way I am not a doctor. (or a meteorologist
)
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Dr. Jonah Rainwater wrote:The East Pacific is on track for a very busy season - I have a feeling we'll see some more majors; at least one of them getting slammed into Mexico by an October trough...2006 will probably use up most of the alphabet in the Epac, but it won't reach the El Nino fueled insanity that was 1997. It'll be busy, but luckily so far Ioke has been the only Cat 5. It's a lucky thing for us that this year's El Nino is going to peak in winter or spring...expect a busy South Pacific season. The Western Pacific seems a bit below average, but we have a Cat4 typhoon spinning right now and China took a brutal beating early in the season.
Take a peak at this thread:
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=89791
About the South Pacific Season. They don't think it will be busy....just slow(er).
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Max mentioned that he's been at the NHC since 1972, and, is ready for retirement, especially after the exhaustive 2004 and 2005 seasons. I first met him in 1980, and, when I realize just how long that's been, and how much has changed since then, it's no surprise that he's tired - I am...
As for "selling" anything to the private sector, what is there to sell? The NHC is strictly into forecasting, and, since the scientific community shares everything between themselves during a number of conferences each year (not to mention countless journal articles), there's nothing the NHC utilizes that would be new to anyone in meteorology.
Also, Federal employees (by their signature) are not allowed to financially benefit from anything they work with while in Government, though some do go on to a career in media (John Hope, Neil Frank, Steve Lyons, etc.), and, some make a modest living as professional witnesses, at trials where weather played a role (accidents, etc.), or, are even are employed as meteorological consultants (industry, agriculture, etc.).
Frank
As for "selling" anything to the private sector, what is there to sell? The NHC is strictly into forecasting, and, since the scientific community shares everything between themselves during a number of conferences each year (not to mention countless journal articles), there's nothing the NHC utilizes that would be new to anyone in meteorology.
Also, Federal employees (by their signature) are not allowed to financially benefit from anything they work with while in Government, though some do go on to a career in media (John Hope, Neil Frank, Steve Lyons, etc.), and, some make a modest living as professional witnesses, at trials where weather played a role (accidents, etc.), or, are even are employed as meteorological consultants (industry, agriculture, etc.).
Frank
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Commercial i see in 5 weeks from now.
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"Max Mayfields invention, sure it can save lives by predicting storms with state of the art technology, but it cant do you diddly about your car innsurance! Geico, 15 minutes can save you 15% or more on your car insurrance."
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