Bill Read is the new NHC Director

[HurricaneJoe22]

http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/ ... 90192.html

[Evil Jeremy]

No! Give it to Ed! He has been working there since the 1980s! He deserves it more than anyone else at this point.

[cycloneye]

As long the Hurricane Center forecasters support Mr Read,I dont see any problems for him doing the job as director,unlike what the forecasters did when the majority took away their support from Proenza.

[HURAKAN]

Let the betting begin!!!

Lets hope this problem is solved as soon as possible so we can start the hurricane season with a director. Ed did an excellent job last year replacing Proenza.

[artist]

I don't think he wants the job due to the traveling it involves. Will be interesting to see who they name and whether from within this time.

[wxman57]

I was just talking to Bill Read this week (at the AMS meeting in New Orleans). I've known him for years. He'd be a good director. As someone else has said, I think Ed has said he doesn't want the job. Bill's plan would be to stay director for 5-6 years then retire. He's not planning on selling his Houston house as he views the position as just temporary (until he retires).

[tolakram]

No! Give it to Ed! He has been working there since the 1980s! He deserves it more than anyone else at this point.

Jeremy, read the article, it's not that long.

During his interim assignment as deputy director, Read has used the director's office while acting director Ed Rappaport -- who chose not to apply for the permanent position -- remained in the smaller deputy director's office.

After a new director is named, Rappaport, 50, is expected to return to his previous post as deputy director.

[HurricaneJoe22]

Sun-Sentinel story:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 6263.story

[Evil Jeremy]

I have read the article. I do know that he does not want the position. I knew that last year. I am just saying that he deserves it the most.

[Frank2]

Posted my own comments to both articles - thanks for letting us know (I was beginning to wonder)...

[jeff]

Bill Reed will get the job today. A great director he will be.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Ok, the NHC is where it is at because it is in the hurricane capital of America, and near a couple of schools with hurricane research programs.



But is it really a good idea to have the hurricane center in America's Hurricane Bullseye? Even with a well designed building, multiple communications lines, back-up generators, I'd have to wonder how well NHC would function a week or ten days after a Cat 5, perhaps when another storm was threatening the US.


I wonder if putting it in a major metro area, near the Gulf, but far safer from hurricanes, maybe in the NWS HGX complex in the Galveston County EMS building (designed to withstand the one in a million chance of a Cat 5 hitting the upper Texas coast), close to Ellington Field. OK, nearest school with a met department 150 miles away in the land time forgot, but James Baker could probably write a big check with all the money the Saudis pay him to work for them and against the US and Israel, and endow a nice program at Rice or the U of H.

[Derek Ortt]

NHC did fine in 1992 when a cat 4 was threatening New Orleans, just 24 hours after bringing sustained cat 3 winds and gusts to 164 to the NHC

[Ed Mahmoud]

NHC did fine in 1992 when a cat 4 was threatening New Orleans, just 24 hours after bringing sustained cat 3 winds and gusts to 164 to the NHC

Andrew's strongest winds went South of Miami, and, as an added bonus, besides no state income tax, our basketball franchise has won a game this year.

[HURAKAN]

Bill Read becomes the New Director!

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories200 ... _read.html

[Frank2]

All the best to him - of course, this is the second selection "outside the immediate family" (prior to Bill Read and William Proenza, there was Max Mayfield (NHC), Bob Burpee (HRD), Jerry Jarrell (NHC), Bob Sheets (HRD), Neil Frank (NHC) and Robert Simpson (NHC), so, as with families at home, when someone becomes an In-Law of the family, acceptance can happen quickly or take time - hopefully, this time, things will go well...

Frank

[cycloneye]

[Derek Ortt]

the old NHC was south of Miami, Ed. Was right across the street from the University of Miami


As far inland as they currently are, it is very unlikely that they will experience winds as high as they did in Andrew. Since they remained operational during Andrew, they can remain operational during another major hurricane (barring an unexpected EF4 or EF5 tornado, of course)

[HURAKAN]

[Ed Mahmoud]

the old NHC was south of Miami, Ed. Was right across the street from the University of Miami


As far inland as they currently are, it is very unlikely that they will experience winds as high as they did in Andrew. Since they remained operational during Andrew, they can remain operational during another major hurricane (barring an unexpected EF4 or EF5 tornado, of course)

Well, maybe, but quality of life issues, like no state income tax, an economy not soley dependent on tourism, stuff like that.


Never been to Miami, not counting changing planes on a flight from DFW to PBI, but I've seen enough of it on COPS and all the stories about foreign tourists being mugged/murdered, just seems like a less than happy place to live.



I wasn't talking about the building being destroyed, rather the entire city cut off for days and weeks after. Just seemed a possibility in a city at the very end of a long peninsula. Water on three sides, alligator filled swamp on the other.


BTW, unlike Florida, Texas has no record of a fatal alligator attack.