Hurricane Center Changes Policy to Include Sandy-like Storms; AMS Forum Assists
If another storm like Sandy threatens land while on the cusp between tropical and extratropical classification, National Hurricane Center (NHC)...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
At the AMS Washington Forum: Time to Man Up.
Throughout the day, including a session at the end, the talk at the AMS Washington Forum kept returning to community...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
At the AMS Washington Forum
Snippets from the sessions and the hallways: (Some friendly advice from one quarter, in reaction to some back-of-the-envelope estimates of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The economic value of the Weather and Climate Enterprise
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Hanging Together: The AMS Washington Forum
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Better advocacy for the Weather and Climate Enterprise
“Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.” Proverbs 27:2 (NIV) These...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Between Good Friday and Easter: meteorologists (and mankind) in need of The Resurrection
On this Easter weekend, and with the Passover just a few days behind us, it’s perhaps worth a pause to...
Perspectives
NOAA Hiring Freeze: Capabilities Head Down a Slippery Slope
by J. Marshall Shepherd, AMS President. The full text was posted earlier today on his blog, Still Here and Thinking. This week...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Meteorology’s greatest achievement over the past decade? It’s not what you think.
[and you have an opportunity April 1-5 to play a part in it.] Ask this question of any member of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Drones for Science
Another guest post contributed by George Leopold… Drone technology has understandably raised safety and privacy concerns. Regulators are working feverishly...
