Benigno Aquino III Quotes

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

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

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.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.

The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it's humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.

Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.

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.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it's to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.

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

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

My house could be under water in this century.

Droughts come and go, but this one is so extreme that it will doubtless affect the discussion of climate change.

The 2012 superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc beyond the Eastern Seaboard and reached Northeast Ohio as well, with heavy rain, wind gusts of nearly 70 miles per hour and waves on Lake Erie reaching 15 to 18 feet.

We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.