Eric Maskin Quotes

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

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.

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.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

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

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

I started storm-chasing at a young age.

Immediately surrounding the tranquil eye is the most violent part of the hurricane: the eye wall. The most intense wind speeds at the surface are found there.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

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

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

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

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

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