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October 19, 2026

Framing the Heavens: 2026 Photo Contest Winners

Admire and read the stories of the four top photos from the AMS 2026 Photo Contest!

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October 16, 2026

A New AMS Certification for Climate Professionals

As governments, industries, and communities seek to plan for the future in the face of a changing environment, demand is high for qualified individuals to provide authoritative analysis of climate data and information. To help meet this demand and identify qualified professionals, the American Meteorological Society recently launched the Certified Climate Science Professional (CCSP) designation. ... Read more

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October 15, 2026

Funding the Geosciences? Just Might Earn AI a White Hat

Artificial Intelligence could use a rebranding, and meteorology and related geosciences offer some options.

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October 15, 2026

Hispanic & Latino/a Heritage Month Spotlight: Jose D. Fuentes

Jose D. Fuentes is a professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, where he studies and teaches the processes governing exchanges of energy and gases between Earth’s surface and the lower atmosphere.

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October 15, 2026

AMS Science Preview: Santa Ana Fire Winds; Chatbots on Climate

Research in AMS journals discusses a new classification for dangerous Santa Ana winds, driver responses to snow squall warnings, the rainiest possible Earth conditions, forecasting extreme waves, the Congo air boundary, LLMs and local climate, and more.

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October 14, 2026

Reviewing a Busy Year at AMS, and Looking Ahead

We are in the fourth quarter, but this is not a basketball game with a finite ending. It’s the fourth quarter of the calendar year, and as soon as it ends, we are right back into the first quarter of a new year. AMS is already looking ahead to the first quarter and beyond of ... Read more

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