James Franklin, chief of forecast operations at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said forecasters, at least, are ready for this season, having made significant improvements in hurricane-track forecasts in recent years.
Enough rain could fall to break North Carolina's record for a tropical storm — 24 inches — set near Wilmington during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, said Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the Weather Service's national prediction center.
Enough rain will likely fall to break North Carolina's record for a tropical storm — 24 inches — set near Wilmington during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, said Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the Weather Service's national prediction center.
In October 2017, Trump nominated Barry Myers, the former chief executive of forecasting firm AccuWeather, to head NOAA.
Harold A. Linstone, emeritus professor of systems science at Portland State University and longtime editor in chief of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, said Dr. Hoos was in many ways the intellectual conscience in the field of technology assessment.
"It was a much larger version of San Francisco Bay," said Mitchel Russo, chief of river forecasting for the California Department of Water Resources.
"We could have continued to call it a hurricane for one or two days," said James Franklin, the chief of hurricane forecasts for the center.
But the use of wind chill as a way to measure cold is problematic — especially in places like Mount Washington, which is known for its extreme environment, said Greg Carbin, chief of the forecast operations branch for the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
"It's a passive and open invitation for your friends to come join you," said Rene Pinnell, co-founder and chief executive of Forecast.
They were designed to be open and accessible and easily linked, and that means one or a few people have the potential to be highly disruptive and very destructive," says Thomas Fingar, the longtime chief of global trends forecasting for the US intelligence community's National Intelligence Council (NIC).
