William Grey

William Grey made his first forecast in 1984. He was a professor at Colorado State University where he was the head of the Tropical Meteorology Project. Unfortunately he died in 2016 at the age of 86. He forecasted until his death. In 1964 he received his Ph.D. University of Chicago, Dept. of Geophysical Sciences. In 1959 he received his M.S. University of Chicago, in Meteorology. In 1952 he received his B.A. George Washington University.

His contributions to meteorology include speaking at many national conventions and conferences such as the Heartland Institute's 7th International Conference on Climate Change. He helped the advancement of many key sciences such as the cumulus-convective scale, observational methodologies and techniques, climate change, tropical cyclogenesis, and track or motion. His seminal work includes many saying that he is the most famous hurricane expert ever and how he pioneered the science of hurricane forecasting. William Grey has been known to predict over 15 crucial hurricanes a year. In the 1970s he made fundamental contributions to knowledge of convective-larger scale interactions. His conceptual development of a seasonal genesis parameter also laid an important framework for both seasonal forecasting as well climate change studies on tropical cyclones. A primary area of Gray’s research in the 1970s was the interaction between 75 cumulonimbus convection and the surrounding circulation.