Ginger Zee Quotes

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

The head of the hurricane research division, Hugh Willoughby, told me that hurricanologists can predict the behavior of storms if those storms behave predictably.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear.

We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.

As Earth's climate changes, we can expect more destructive hurricanes. As sea level and surface temperatures rise, more solar energy is trapped in the atmosphere, revving up the hydrological cycle of evaporation and precipitation and sometimes manifesting in terrifying storms.

We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Here in New York, we are already seeing how climate change contributes to increasingly violent and extreme weather that has cost us dearly, in both damage and in lives.

Sometimes there are really severe conditions like super, super wind or crazy wind or something like that that you don't really get to practice for. But it's kind of you just show up and whatever you get in warm-ups, you kind of adjust to it and play as you go.