AMS Headlines sat down with Barbara Boustead, meteorologist, climatologist, and author of Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls ...
For Jeffrey Pierce, the path to becoming an atmospheric scientist was not entirely planned. It began with an interest in math ...
As governments, industries, and communities seek to plan for the future in the face of a changing environment, demand is high ...
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Discussing advances and challenges in the field of fire weather, fire prediction, and damage mitigation at the 2026 Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting (AWF/SCM) session and an AMS ...
Tom Yoksas, a longtime member of the NSF Unidata Program Center and a valued member of the broader Unidata and meteorological communities, died August 20, 2026. Over a career spanning many years, ...
Some AI forecasting has limits. AI-based forecasting has a great deal of potential—and sees a great deal of hype. A new paper compares machine learning (ML) weather forecasts that make statistical ...
Hurricane Humberto (right) churns over the open Atlantic Ocean southeast of Bermuda, while Hurricane Imelda swipes at Florida with its fringe rainbands in late September 2025. Heavy surf and deadly ...
The term “medicane” (short for Mediterranean hurricane) has been used for more than two decades to identify storms that develop over the Mediterranean yet appear similar to tropical cyclones. They do ...
Melissa is the latest example of a rapidly intensifying Atlantic hurricane prior to landfall, smashing into Jamaica as an extreme Catgory 5 in late October 2025. Rapid intensification (RI) of tropical ...
A temperature reading taken in Death Valley, California holds the World Meteorological Organization’s record as the hottest weather-related air-surface temperature recorded on Earth: 134 °F. New ...
According to the 36th annual State of the Climate report, greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level, and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2025. The report is the most comprehensive ...