Authors
Author Interview: Reconstructing Gettysburg’s Weather
In The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign, meteorologist Jon M. Nese and historian Jeffrey J. Harding combine expertise to reconstruct, day by day, the atmospheric conditions that influenced one of the most consequential campaigns of the Civil War.
Science Spotlights
Face-ing Up to Glacial Melting
Researchers made the first-ever survey of the underside of the Dotson Ice Shelf near Antarctica using an autonomous underwater vehicle.
People
Author Interview: Earth in Flames
As longtime AMS Fellows, Brian Toon and Alan Robock have spent their careers studying how Earth’s atmosphere responds to extreme events—from asteroid impacts to nuclear war. Their 2025 book, Earth in Flames, brings decades of atmospheric science into sharp focus, drawing urgent parallels between past mass extinctions and risks humanity faces today.
People
Black History Month Spotlight: Greg Jenkins
This Black History Month post spotlights Greg Jenkins, a professor at Penn State who focuses on weather, climate change, and air quality in West Africa.
Perspectives
Fire Breathing Thunderstorms
by Aaron Price Sometimes you run across a word that demands immediate attention. Pyrocumulonimbus is one of those words. I...
Perspectives
EPA Repeals Its Endangerment Finding; AMS Responds. What Comes Next?
The big environmental news this past week was the repeal of EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding.
Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence: Remaking the AMS Annual Meetings. Part 2.
The continuing growth of the AI conference portends a hugely expanded, positive future for AMS meetings and for our community.
People
Black History Month Spotlight: Lelan Statom
For Black History Month, we spotlight the exceptional career of award-winning meteorologist Lelan Statom, currently senior meteorologist at NewsChannel 5 in Nashville.
Science Spotlights
When Music Meets Hail
By agostino manzato & Jun-ichi yano Major hailstorms pounded Azzano Decimo in northeast Italy in August 2021 and July 2023....
People
In Memoriam: Eugenia Kalnay
Eugenia Kalnay, who made highly consequential theoretical and practical contributions to a wide range of scientific subjects, especially numerical weather prediction and predictability, and who was a beloved mentor to generations of students, passed away on August 13, 2024.
