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Maybe they'll take off if everything is just right. Most of the time, they don't ... We've been lucky because in Arizona our climatic conditions, our soils are so different and so extreme that not many things that are tropical are going to be able to survive here.

Carl Olson

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

Robbie Berg

Warm water alone doesn't mean a lot of activity. A lot of things have to happen for a tropical cyclone to develop.

Phil Klotzbach

No one that I've talked to is regretting that we had a tropical storm.

Charles Mitchell

There's moderate damage at (Harrah's) New Orleans, but no interior damage. The people of Biloxi, as a result of what happened 60 days ago (Tropical Storm Arlene), they were taking this one seriously.

Alberto Lopez

We're not in a position to go through a tropical storm without reflooding a lot of areas that were just drained.

Paul Kemp

It should have more time over the water so it could potentially be stronger than (Tropical Storm) Charley.

Richard Pasch

This intensification has been proposed and would logically seem to result in more flooding and more intense tropical storm seasons. But over the observational period, those effects are just not borne out by the data in a consistent way.

Thomas Huntington

Effective immediately ... officials are issuing a general resident evacuation for all residents living from the Seven Mile Bridge through Key West due to Tropical Storm Rita, which is expected to mature into Hurricane Rita later Monday.

Irene Toner

We'll start out sub-tropical, end up sub-arctic.

R.q. Shupe

We're not forecasting it to be a hurricane. We're forecasting it to remain a tropical storm for the remainder of its life.

Michelle Huber

With an average forward speed of only about three miles per hour, many areas were subject to hurricane and tropical storm force winds for more than 24 hours.

Jayanta Guin

We are still in the midst of the hurricane season. A tropical storm looms off Florida's east coast. No one thought Katrina would do what it did when it was off the coast.

Mark Waggoner

We don't support any kind of activism or anything like that. It's mainly just research. And we send students from the U.S. to the tropics to the Organization for Tropical Studies where they do semesters of research on tropics, on tropical research and frogs and amphibians of all kinds.

Andrew Crosby

This is the second warmest year we've ever seen over the tropical Atlantic. It's pretty toasty out there.

Phil Klotzbach

It will be very interesting. Everybody is keeping a close eye on how this develops here. Lights react in different ways in different parts of the world. I do not know how much dew plays a part, especially in a tropical climate. We will just have to wait and see how the first game goes and assess the situation.

Vikram Solanki

Given the tiny amount of good quality tropical forest remaining on Mauritius, this development can only be viewed as catastrophic to the native biodiversity.

Achim Steiner

I wanted it to kind of be my tropical, crazy room. I wanted it to be one of my cheer-up spaces.

Renee Tyson

Our concern is a tropical wave that has been sitting over Jamaica for the past few days and headed in our direction and will continue to bring rain for Central Florida for the next couple of days. As a matter of fact, even into the weekend, possibly.

Jerry Steffen

Throughout China, everyone does stir-fries, but only the Cantonese speak about wok hay. They're experts because it's hot and tropical there, with abundant produce and seafood. They cook and eat it quickly, with no leftovers.

Grace Young

Tropical Storm Arlene infected kudzu plants in Florida between June 8 and June 10. During that time, the storm moved rust spores into the Gulf, and a subsequent storm moved spores into Mississippi and Alabama, specifically George County, MS.

Billy Moore

Life is short, wear tropical shirts.

Marc Lampe

The best of our destination is that we're in the topics. What we're left with, sometimes, is the tropical weather.

David Whitaker

This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.

Gregory Asner

[There has been no overall increase in the number of tropical storms over the past three decades, but] Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are making up a larger share of the total number of hurricanes, ... made up about 20 percent of all hurricanes in the 1970s, but over the last decade they account for about 35 percent of these storms.

Judith Curry

This long period of sustained intensity change provides an excellent basis for further work to understand and predict the potential responses of tropical cyclones to changing environmental conditions.

Greg Holland

We're watching Tropical Storm Rita's projected path and, depending on its strength and how much rain falls, everything could change. Residents moving into the area may have to evacuate again.

Duane Gapinski

Although we have already seen a record-setting seven tropical storms during June and July, much of the season's activity is still to come.

Gerry Bell

It is still quite large. We will have hurricane-force and tropical storm-force winds covering a large area.

Jack Beven

This is something that is not common. Especially coming off one of the driest months of the year. It's a remarkable pattern in terms of heavy rainfall without the remnants of a tropical system or hurricane. It's dramatic after a long period of dry weather being dramatically broken by long periods of prolonged rain. This is usually a quiet month.

Tim Morrin

Right now, we're between bands. This is strong, tropical air coming right up on us.

Fritz Coleman

The big pain that we need to watch going forward are tropical force winds. With that, we hope that the levee system is going to hold.

C. Ray Nagin

Arctic energy from Canada was driving steadily southward, while this ball of tropical energy from the hurricane was moving northward. When they met, it caused this storm to explode, in weather terms.

David Vallee

Providing these catalogues would be helpful in attracting tourists from tropical countries which do not have snow. Constructing artificial ski resort is very expensive and is not economic at all.

Saeed Moradi

With afternoon thunderstorms and daytime heat, stalled out cold fronts, and the Gulf starting to open up, all scenarios offer us a better chance of rain than was the case for last two months. June is the beginning of tropical storm and hurricane season.

Gary Chatelain

Dengue is now one of the most important tropical diseases. While it doesn't kill that many people, it has tremendous economic and social impact.

Duane Gubler

There's concern about this Tropical Storm Rita. People are watching that a little bit more closely, given Katrina and its impact on the market. There's some unwillingness right now to take aggressive positions.

Paul Mackel

That doesn't mean it will blow tropical storm force winds for six hours or 12 hours. It could be one minute or three, but it means if you have awnings that can't withstand tropical force winds, you should take them down.

Stacy Stewart

The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity.

Joe Bastardi

I think that's on the heels of the latest tropical storm going through the Caribbean that may have an impact on supply.

Arthur Hogan

We tried to tell the builders to lay them down or try and move them next to a building, ... There wasn't a lot we could do. If we wanted to pick them all up, we'd have to get started once a (tropical) wave comes off Africa.

John Lovelace

This is just precautionary at this time. Due to the unpredictable nature of tropical systems, we want our residents to begin planning.

Butch Loper

It reminds us how reliant we are on imports, and with the geopolitical climate and tropical storms, we could not afford to be down for any extended period of time to meet demand.

Phil Flynn

This is the time of year when you're going to see the most rain ... because of the southwest monsoon, ... Right now, you're going to see that monsoonal flow enhanced somewhat because of the tropical storm.

Mari Ramos

We have tropical music all the time.

Joann Woroner

Once Irene hits the icy waters of the North Atlantic in about 48 hours, any remaining tropical characteristics should quickly disappear.

Stacy Stewart

We don't know what effect it may have to remove so many top predators from a complex tropical ecosystem, but it's likely to be bad news.

Richard Shine

The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.

Kerry Emanuel

Right now we are not mentioning anything heavy, subject to change. Essentially the atmosphere is very unstable. We have a trough west of our area that's drawing all of this unstable, moist tropical air.

Norman Hui

It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to be a while to get back to normal.

Toni Jennings

It's the climate. If it was cold and not as humid, I would probably be doing slower music. Tropical music is daytime music. Happy music.

Javier Garcia

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

Henry Walter Bates

Overall, our hurricane season has been very quiet this year. We've had one weak tropical disturbance so far, at the beginning of August, that lasted a day or two.

Jim Weyman

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

Carl Schurz

Last year, we just got brushed by two tropical storms [what was left of Frances and Jeanne], and we had people lose power from six to 10 days.

Larry Gispert

NCAR is now embarking on a focused series of computer experiments capable of resolving thunderstorms and the details of tropical cyclones, ... The results will help explain the observed intensity changes and extend them to realistic climate change scenarios.

Greg Holland

Tropical storm force (winds of at least 73 mph/117 km/h) is probably about all we'll see here in Dade and Broward counties.

Miles Lawrence

Tropical music is changing, and it's changing in the sense that it's returning to its roots, which is a more urban salsa sound, more reflective of what happens in the streets.

Lorenzo Braun

We had a large tropical storm go through and we could not open the fair. We open Friday at one and we couldn't open at one.

Barbara Puffer

It's going to be a mess. For athletes, I hope it didn't mess their future plans up. We had scares two years ago when I was there with tropical storms and stuff like that that would flood the streets. The difference was the water would be gone the next day. It's definitely serious now, with all the water staying.

Dan Fitzgerald

Generally speaking, we came through fairly well. There's a lesson here: to acknowledge the power of a tropical cyclone.

Tony Carper

The climate pattern is worsening and sea temperatures ?n tropical areas has risen, increasing the risk of high winds.

Jacques Aigrain

Very Balinese, very Indonesian, and yet it draws on a lot of tropical influences as well. You will see certain elements of Australia and certain elements of the Caribbean, and we have created a -- a tropical frenzy, if you like. But all the species, all the plants that are here are from Bali. There is nothing that is imported.

Neil Jacobs

I particularly love Legorreta's use of vivid pink, set off by sun and the tough, tropical nature of Mexico.

Richard Rogers

Houston has had its storm disasters before. In 2001, the enormous amount of rain dropped in the shortest time by tropical storm Alison caused $8 million in damages for the Houston Symphony alone -- which lost its music library and many musical instruments.

Hans Graf

It's possible as Ophelia moves north-northeast those outer bands of tropical storm-force winds could affect portions of southern New England.

Michelle Mainelli

It's still a tropical storm but it won't be much longer. By midnight, it should be a memory.

Scott Reynolds

It's all about a really fun night of calypso and island tropical entertainment.

Verna Rutherford

People think it's all tropical island; they don't know about the actual people who live here.

Vernon Brown

Even another tropical storm could set the reconstruction back for months.

Matthew Simmons

If you're going to lose a tournament, you might as well do it somewhere tropical.

Christopher Birchby

Victorians weren't into pastels. They liked strong, hot colors. Tropical colors.

Cheryl Miller

Politics, just like the tropical forest, feeds itself from its own waste.

Paul Carvel

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

Tod Marks

We're grappling with how and where these waves originate, because about one in every ten will form into a named tropical storm. This shows us the amplitude and strength of these waves as they come off Africa and into the Atlantic.

Chris Velden

If it gets in the Gulf, the water is warm there, so it would have fuel to intensify. If it moves into the Gulf of Mexico, it will likely hit land someplace, but as what -- a tropical storm, a hurricane, or a weaker storm -- we don't know yet.

Mark Mcinerney

There is the potential for additional tropical storms and hurricanes to form this season, but it's too early to know exactly where they will develop or if they will affect land.

Scott Kiser

The very active season we have seen to this point is far from over. We expect that by the time the 2005 hurricane season is over, we will witness seasonal tropical cyclone activity at near-record levels.

Philip Klotzbach

Dengue is not outside the tropical zone, it is not a threat for international public health, ... For Europeans or people from North America, the threat for dengue is if you visit (Asia), while with avian influenza if it mutates it will immediately be a threat for every household in the world.

Hans Troedsson

Farmers, particularly in tropical areas, are seeing new opportunities for increasing production and raising their incomes.

Gustavo Best

The No. 1 killer of tropical fish in this country is having your neighbors feeding your fish.

Derrick Johnson

The drinks are more tropical. The food has more spices, more flavor, but it's not necessarily hotter.

Julio Zalapa

Both my wife and our children are from Hawaii. We get macadamia nuts shipped to us regularly, and I think chocolate and macadamias go together like a husband and wife. The tartlets have key lime and a coconut crust, which make me think of romantic tropical beaches.

Alan Heap

It's like when there is a tropical depression off the Leeward Islands. We need to pay attention. A disaster could be coming our way.

Dr. Judith Hartner

Let me get you the hydrologist, he's much more familiar with tropical systems than I am.

Larry Nierenberg

Tropical-force winds are still quite capable of substantial damage. As the winds come down, the rain will take over as a primary threat.

Jamie Rhome

Sea turtles are very global, very migratory. They utilize habitat in many locations. This proves that we should have people working to protect coastal areas in general, not just the sub-tropical nesting areas of sea turtles.

Dan Evans

Ghana embarked on independence as one of the richest tropical countries in the world, with an efficient civil service, an impartial judiciary and a prosperous middle class.

Martin Meredith

Cirrus clouds are like a blanket. They trap heat in the system. That energy has to escape somehow. If enough energy is trapped and stored in the system, it can escape from the tropical ocean in the form of a hurricane, or in a big rain event like a 'Pineapple Express,' which is a deep flow of moisture in the tropics like we recently had hit the East Coast.

Jay Mace

The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn't changed, ... If I'm proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.

William Gray

There are certain diseases you don't see much of unless you travel to another part of the world. There are a different set of skin issues in Finland than there are in a tropical climate.

Emanuel Kuflik

If temperatures continue to increase in the tropical North Atlantic, many of the coral reefs there (and their ecosystems) may be affected by bleaching. Also, since hurricane development does depend on sea surface temperatures, the conditions necessary for hurricanes to form may be accentuated.

Edward Kearns