There is a next generation of Doppler radars called 'NEXRAD,' which will enable you to detect the formation of a tornado before they touch down. It will reduce deaths by 34 percent is the estimate, and injuries reduced by 45 percent.

Hurricane Andrew ended up being categorized as a Category 4, that is up to 145 miles per hour.

Forecasting weather is so important to us.

If you have the tools, whether it is through social media, whether it is through the new social media that so many young people are on, if you had the tools to accurately forecast, they could get out the word.

Really, I want to underscore the importance of your position.

we are gratified that Congress has allocated the money to NOAA to increase our computing capacity for our weather models

We have some folks that do not like climate change around here.

Here comes one the first part of the season, middle of August, named Andrew, headed straight for the southern part of the peninsula.

In the early 1990s--Florida, which is quite accustomed, we are a peninsula sticking down into the middle of what is known as 'Hurricane Highway' but we had not had a lot of direct hits by the big ones.

We had to go through that experience in order to wake up to using some common sense.

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