Bill Gray Speaks & 4 Invests From NRL in the Atlantic. Bumper Crop

This is a picture of Dr. Gray waiting for the computer to get set up and the people to sit down to hear him speak on the always controversial topic of "Global Warming" or more so how much we can attribute to human involvement vs other factors such as cycles and ocean currents. The auditorium was filled with meteorologists and oceanographers and a few forecasters and students and me. Your mind reels with data when you listen to Bill Gray speak. Must have been wonderful to be a student in his classes. I can see... amazing. Had a few professors like that ...Dr. Clem for one, when that man would start talking on treaties and international law and geography you were living life to the 100th degree every second you were in the class.

Seriously. I went to hear Dr. William Gray speak on Tuesday. It was wonderful. The man is a joy to listen to speak. He is smart, brilliant, funny, quick, intensely passionate and easy going all at the same time. Watching him talk to old friends about old friends and listening like a fly on the wall. Spent some quality time afterwards at the NOAA Library over on Virginia Key. Great library, can get lost there for hours waiting for friends who are working late to be done. If there is one spot on Planet Earth that rates up there with perfection it is Virginia Key in the middle of Biscayne Bay. You can't not think on hurricanes. Not because I was at the AOML/HRD headquarters but because it sits on a place called Bear Cut that was formed when the 1835 Hurricane smashed into the south shore of Miami and cut up the mangroves almost all the way to the river in places. One of the worst hurricanes to hit Miami and yet we have such little data... scars in the hardwood hammock and trees still standing or that regrew from being torn apart and Bear Cut that didn't exist on the maps until after the storm passed. And... look over to the south towards Key Biscayne and you see the old Hurricane Hole where boats can anchor to protect themselves from the Gales in a Hurricane.



Nice library. Yep, was a great talk by Dr. Gray that I will discuss in detail more another time when I am not on vacation, resting up and trying to figure out what I am going to take to Postville with me. Course only going if there are no named storms within 5 days away from Miami thankful for good friends and for getting my nice little red umbrella back as I might need it in rainy Iowa.

Time will tell... waiting for time to tell us where we all are going.

Waiting to see if one of the current 3 Invests at the NRL does anything or is it just going to be the July of Bertha dancing in the Atlantic? I can see advisories written still in August at this rate... we will remember Bertha in September at this rate.


Not sure which ones if any will make their way into a market by you but stay tuned.

The one off the SE coast now currently known as 96 will bring rain along the shore of South Carolina, North Carolina and it's probably already raining in Georgia. From Florida north you can see rain. Not a named storm. Just rain for now.

Cruising too fast through the Caribbean is a Tropical Wave which has had much ballyhoo yet... not a name. Not even a TD Number.

So... while there is a lot going on.. nothing is going on.

Love ya all, Bobbi

Ps... just to think on something. Bill Gray talks a lot these days on the currents in the Ocean and thermohaline layer and well... this planet is covered with more water than land. Anyone who went years back to the old Planet Ocean which just happens to be where AOML is now would know how important a role the ocean has in everything that happens on Planet Earth. Except for the small amount we effect the whole planet and the larger way one large volcano can change weather in any given year.. climate is long term and very tied to the flow of the ocean and the interplay between the atmosphere and the oceans.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/acvp/gray.htm

I remember when my brothers stood next to the same iceberg and learned how icebergs worked. When they watched the movie that explained about the Ocean. Was a great place Planet Ocean and I thought on it much the other day. Here's a pic for my brother Jay. We used to take my youngest kids there to touch the iceberg, to walk through the hurricane exhibit (awesome) and to see the movie and climb in the little mini submarines. Great Place.


http://www.lostparks.com/planetocean.html