2010 AMS confernece on hurricanes and tropical meteorology

[Derek Ortt]

Just giving everyone a quick heads up.

I am covering this for pnj.com. That is where you will find daily summaries from the conference and a possible answer to the February storm question

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/sectio ... 993b9633c0

[wxman57]

Not a whole lot of excitement at the conference yet. Just saw 6-8 peccaries (sort of like a pig) while walking around the golf cart path on the course next to the hotel after sunset. Heard a big rustling of brush a few feet to my right as I walked across a bridge over a dry creek bed. Here's one of them. Shot was taken from about 20 feet away looking down from the bridge:



Ran into Bill Read (NHC director) right after I got here. He had just parked his rental car. Phil Klotzbach & i were talking and he asked about a supermarket in the area to get some supplies. Meals here are ridiculously high as there's nowhere else to eat but the resort. I told Phil that Bill Read has a car. Saw Bill a bit later and he said he was going to go to a store to get some stuff, too. So we all went to Safeway for cereal, bananas, bread and lunch meat. $18 for 5 days worth of breakfast and lunch vs. $15+ just for breakfast each day.

So far, haven't heard any exciting talks. My presentation is tomorrow afternoon. Hard to give much of a talk in just 12 minutes.

Here's the view from the back of the hotel out across the golf course:


And a big saguaro cactus on the golf course. Probably 125 years old. They seem to grow like weeds around here. Don't know why they're a protected species.

[jasons2k]

You mean you were in the same car as Klotzbach and Reid and all you could come-up with is a picture of a mutant-rodent-pig and a cactus???

Seriously -- thanks for the posts - great thread and I look forward to more 'insights' from the conference.

[wxman57]

Most of the presentations are quite technical this year. Not as interesting as 2 years ago in Orlando or 4 years ago in Monterey or 6 years ago in Miami. The scenery around here has been more interesting than the conference so far.

[Aslkahuna]

You mean everyone actually dared to come to Arizona? Be prepared for some flak when you get back home. BTW if you have a chance, try hiking in Sabino Canyon or go up to Mt Lemmon-especially as it gets warmer later in the week (expected to get back into the 90's which is still only warm-hot is 100F or more).

Steve

[KBBOCA]

Jeff Masters has an interesting summary of some of the conference presentations on his blog today:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1478