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- 23 February 2021
- Southeasterners Perceive Tornado Risk Dangerously Different Than They Should, Especially at Night
- While a major winter storm a week ago was plastering the United States from Texas and New Mexico to New England with heavy snow and ice, volatile conditions in the Southeast (SE) spawned damaging and deadly tornadoes. One of these overnight Monday a week ago, tragically took the lives of 3 people and injured 10 […]
- 13 January 2021
- The 101st AMS Annual Meeting: Find Your (Virtual) Pathways of Major Themes
- We’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate community in the past, this coming week (starting Sunday, January 10th), promises many opportunities to […]
- 10 January 2021
- AMS Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 5: Community Engagement
- As we mentioned in the first post in this series of potential “Virtual” Pathways through the rich AMS Annual Meeting program of parallel conferences, this year’s overarching theme is especially powerful: “Strengthening engagement with communities through our science and services.” This is a statement of needs, accomplishments, and future priorities all in one. After the […]
- 10 January 2021
- AMS Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 4: Social Justice
- After a year of substantial social injustice-fueled upheavals, the 101st AMS Annual Meeting builds on social justice themes all week and you could make social justice the theme of you own virtual programming, picking and choosing your way through the sessions if you’re so inclined, right from the centerpiece Presidential Forum on Sunday, “Building a […]
- 9 January 2021
- Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 3: Pandemic Topics
- Often our Annual Meeting week feels like a chance to get away from some of the day-to-day issues of work to focus on exchanging scientific ideas with colleagues. This year, the AMS Annual Meeting is a virtual gathering, however, so there’s little chance any of us will escape entirely the everyday concerns of COVID-19 this […]
See complete list of statements in force
- Best Practices for Large Retail Outlets in Preparation for Severe Wind and Tornado Emergencies
(Adopted by the AMS Council on 30 September 2020)
- Priorities for a New Decade: Weather, Water, and Climate
(Adopted by the AMS Council on 28 September 2020)
- Hurricane Preparedness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Adopted by the AMS Council on 30 July 2020)
- 26 January 2021
- New Research Examines Climate Change's Role in 2019 Extreme Weather Events
Precipitation from Hurricane Dorian, South Africa’s extraordinary four-year drought, fires in Alaska and China, and devastating floods in southern Canada were some of the extreme weather events made more likely by human-caused climatechange in 2019, according to new research published today in the ?Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ?(?BAMS?).
- 9 December 2019
- New Research Examines Climate Change's Role in 2018 Extreme Weather Events
AMS released the eighth edition of the report, Explaining Extreme Events in 2018 from a Climate Perspective, featuring the research of 121 scientists from 13 countries looking at both historical observations and model simulations to determine whether and by how much climate change may have influenced particular extreme events.
- 12 August 2019
- Annual State of the Climate Report Released Showing Effects of Planet's Warming Across Multitudes of Key Indicators
A new State of the Climate report released today by AMS confirms that 2018 was one of the hottest years on record.
- 31 January 2019
- AMS ANNOUNCES NEW PUBLICATIONS COMMISSIONER
AMS announces that Professor Anthony J. Broccoli of Rutgers University has been appointed Publications Commissioner, effective January 6, 2019.
- 10 December 2018
- HEATWAVES, DROUGHTS AND FLOODS AMONG RECENT WEATHER EXTREMES LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
New Studies Reveal Clear Ties between Today's Extremes and Human Causes
- 1 May 2018
- AMS ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF EDITOR FOR GLOSSARY OF METEOROLOGY
AMS announced that Dr. Ward R. Seguin has been appointed chief editor of the Glossary of Meteorology, effective January 1, 2018.
- 1 March 2018
- AMS ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF EDITOR FOR JOURNAL
AMS announced that Dr. Henry P. Huntington of Huntington Consulting, in Eagle River, Alaska, has been appointed chief editor of the AMS journal Weather, Climate, and Society (WCAS).
- 23 February 2018
- AMS ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAM TO BUILD EARLY CAREER SCIENCE LEADERS
AMS announced today the launch of a new program, Early Career Leadership Academy (ECLA), which seeks to build and sustain a diverse network of early careers leaders across the weather, water, and climate science community
- 9 January 2018
- AMS Publications Partners with Kudos
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced that it has signed a multiyear contract with Kudos, the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications.
- 13 December 2017
- Human Influence on Climate Led to Several Major Weather Extremes in 2016
Global heat, regional heat, and marine heat records were not possible without human-caused climate change
- 19 January 2021
- Multi-organization letter to FCC expressing support for action to preserve portions of the spectrum
- 8 December 2020
- Multi-organization letter to Congress expressing concerns with disruptions caused by continuing resolutions
- 11 November 2020
- Multi-organization letter on the "Saving the Civil Service Act"
- 27 October 2020
- Multi-organization letter to Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on spectrum issues
- 7 October 2020
- Multi-society letter to OMB expressing concerns on restrictions on DEI training in federal programs
- 1 October 2020
- Multi-society letter to NSF on role of societies in addressing COVID-19 challenges to research