Across AMS
Framing the Heavens: 2026 Photo Contest Winners
Admire and read the stories of the four top photos from the AMS 2026 Photo Contest!
Across AMS
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...
Perspectives
Funding the Geosciences? Just Might Earn AI a White Hat
Artificial Intelligence could use a rebranding, and meteorology and related geosciences offer some options.
People
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.
From AMS Journals
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.
Across AMS
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...
Science Spotlights
Why Snow Really Falls in Bands
by Stephen R. Guimond Extratropical cyclones frequently contain multibanded cloud and precipitation structures that can strongly influence the distribution and...
Across AMS
Suomi Medal Honors Christian Kummerow
Christian Kummerow of Colorado State University has been named the recipient of the 2027 AMS Verner E. Suomi Technology Medal for pioneering advances in satellite microwave remote sensing of precipitation, which have transformed global water cycle observations and applications for weather, hydrology, and climate science.
