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- 9 February 2018
- Trump signed a bill that gives millions to the US agency in charge of climate and weather science
- the agency to get better weather satellites, improve hurricane intensity forecasting, and enhance their supercomputing infrastructure. John
- 9 February 2018
- If you live in Florida, doctors say climate change is already affecting your health
- fund anything from tree planting to helping officials streamline their hurricane preparedness plan. “The county health departments really
- 8 February 2018
- New CREWS initiative for the Caribbean
- reduced because we saw them coming. Forecasting models accurately predicted the hurricane path and anticipated their extreme intensities
- 8 February 2018
- In keynote address, Alley urges scientists to express value of their work
- , Alley stressed the value of weather forecasting to the assembled meteorologists. “The Galveston hurricane killed 8,000 people in 1900.
- 28 December 2017
- The record-breaking megadisasters of 2017, explained
- now,” Jeff Rosenfeld, editor-in-chief of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, which published the report, said. “We’re virtually
- 28 December 2017
- Stunning satellite image shows lake effect snow over Great Lakes
- two-day snowfall. The National Weather Service office in Cleveland says the storm brought 34 inches on Christmas Day, a new all-time daily
- 27 December 2017
- The 10 most incredible photos from an astounding year in weather
- season from hell is finally over The National Hurricane Center issued its best forecasts this year California super bloom A wildflower
- 27 December 2017
- In all likelihood, someday the sun will knock out the grid
- our star down to Earth for people. She’s working with the American Meteorological Society to create a space-weather-broadcast certification.
- 20 November 2017
- Satellite Imagery Aids Rescue Efforts for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria
- Satellite Imagery Aids Rescue Efforts for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria
- 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
- 16 November 2017
- AMS Announces Winners of 2018 Election
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced the winners of its 2018 elections for AMS president-elect as well as five new Council members, based on AMS membership voting.
- 30 August 2017
- AMS Announces New Chief Editor
AMS announced that Professor Gary Lackmann of North Carolina State University has been appointed chief editor of Weather and Forecasting.
- 7 August 2017
- Associate Director of AMS Education Program to Retire
AMS announces that after 22 years of service to the Education Department, Robert Weinbeck is retiring in August 2017.
See complete list of statements in force
- On the Infrastructure Supporting Weather, Water, Environmental, and Climate Sciences, Services, and Assessments
(Adopted by the AMS Council on 11 July 2018)
- Lightning Safety
(Adopted by the AMS Council on 11 July 2018)
- Best Practices for the Dissemination of Weather Warnings to the Public
(Adopted by the AMS Council 7 January 2018)
- 16 October 2018
- Letter to President Trump on Climate Change
- 27 September 2018
- Multi-organization ex parte submission to FCC on use of spectrum
- 18 July 2018
- Joint letter to FCC on satellite spectrum
- 22 June 2018
- FCC filing by AMS to supplement 31 May 2018 filing
AMS Blog, The Front Page
- 21 February 2019
- GOES-16/17 Virtual Science Fair Seeking Entries From Students
- by Margaret Mooney, CIMSS NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) in Madison Wisconsin is pleased to announce a virtual science fair for students from grades 6-14 applying GOES-16 or GOES-17 data to investigate weather scenarios and natural hazards. ‘Pleased’ is probably too mild of a word to describe our enthusiasm around this project. […]
- 20 February 2019
- Flying the Fastest Skies
- How fast can an airliner go? Monday night a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 reached 801 m.p.h. en route from Los Angeles to London. Matthew Cappucci of the Washington Post reported the jet reached this amazing speed—a record for the Boeing 787-9 and probably the highest speed for a non-supersonic commercial flight—while cruising at 35,000 feet over the central Pennsylvania. Clearly the plane was hurled along by an […]
- 5 February 2019
- New Western Storms Scale to Describe Intensity, Potential Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers
- Hurricanes are classified by the Saffir-Simpson Scale and tornadoes by the Enhanced Fujita Scale, and now atmospheric rivers—those long, transient corridors of water vapor that fuel flooding rain events each winter in the West, especially California—will also be scaled to enhance awareness and bolster prediction. The new AR scale ranks their intensity and potential impacts […]
- 11 January 2019
- Making Sure No Tornado Damage Is Too Small
- Planetary, synoptic, meso-alpha, meso-beta, local, and more—there are atmospheric scales aplenty discussed at AMS meetings. Enter microtopography, a once-rare word increasingly appearing in the mix in research (for example, here and here). The word is also coming up as researchers are getting new tools to examine the interaction of tornadoes with their immediate surroundings. Microtopography looks like a potential factor in tornadic damage […]
- 7 January 2019
- Is It Sand Or Is It Snow?: Nuggets from Today’s Poster Session
- Today’s poster sessions starting at 4 p.m. will full of mysterious images. This is your opportunity to ask the researchers what the pictures are all about. In the case of Morristown-Beard School sophomore Kim Magnotta’s poster (103) today, the question may be simply, what are pictures of sand doing at a meteorology conference? There’s a […]