Mayfield to Retire
CNN reports that Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, is retiring:
Max Mayfield, who oversaw the nation’s tropical-storm forecasting during the Atlantic’s most destructive period on record, said Friday that he will retire.
Mayfield, 57, told his staff he will retire in January but had no single reason for leaving the center, which he has led since May 2000.
“I’ve been here 34 years and as Forrest Gump said in the movie, ‘I’m tired and I want to go home,”‘ The Miami Herald reported on its Web site.
Max is very familiar to those of us who live on the Gulf Coast. You have to wonder if all of the attempts to reduce the capabilities of NOAA played a part in his decision.
