Chris Landsea Quotations

One thing is fairly certain -- it's going to be a major hurricane.

But it will make it more problematic for the recovery efforts there.

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

If it's a Category 3 at landfall, it's equivalent to 25 Category 1s.

We can explain it after the fact, but we can't forecast that very well, where the storms are going to form.

I think that this is very good science and a very important paper, but I don't think it settles every question.

I thought his analysis was interesting, but I think it's far from definitive.

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

That was kind of my first impression: Wow, this one is deepening as quick as Andrew, ... It's larger.

With La Nina, you can expect not only more storms than average, but stronger storms, as well.

Everyone wants to know what's going to happen this coming season, given the horrible impacts of the last two years.

At this point, Rita has become a potentially very devastating Category 5 hurricane. Fortunately it's over the open ocean of the Gulf of Mexico, and will be over the open ocean for the next day. But we expect it to gradually make a turn to the north.

Back then forecasters didn't have satellites or even land-based radar. All they had were ships at sea.

That's not physically consistent with more intense storms, there's something fishy in that result.

It's a good way to end the record-breaking season. Why not have one more and be done with it?

It's not something we predicted, and I'm not sure it's something we can anticipate way in advance.

It's almost certain it will make landfall as a major hurricane -- Category 3 or Category 4.

It's getting to be a large-sized hurricane, ... If the storm hits Texas, some of the rain and the squall conditions will affect other areas as well and probably Louisiana.

It's cyclical. If there are changes from human-induced global warming, they're so small we can't detect them yet.

The La Nina effect tends to change in the late spring. That makes it tough to make an accurate assessment about what influence it will be having in the peak of hurricane season in August and September.

In general, Florida gets hit a lot. But what we've seen the last two years should not continue.

I know how many holes there are in the data. I put it together.

The global warming thing is a long-term issue to be concerned about, how that's changing things. To me, I'd be much more worried about a Katrina right now versus something in 10 or 20 years.

The global warming impacts are so tiny today that they can't be measured although they might be measured in 100 years. Compared to the natural swings of hurricane activity and compared to the huge population increase and infrastructure build-up along the coast, any global warming effects are likely to be so tiny that they're lost in the noise.