Stephen Schneider: Scientist, Communicator
by Peggy Lemone, AMS president (with thanks to Bob Chervin) On 19 July, our community lost both a great scientist...
The Road to Safer Driving Is Paved with Meteorology
Storm chasing is sometimes as much a gripping challenge of driving through nasty weather as it is a calculated pursuit...
Vortex Delight
This Monday at the AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Rieke Heinze of the Institut für Meteorologie und Klimatologie at the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Road Weather
Think back to the last time you were terrified by the weather. No, not one of those times that the...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
A Dose of Reality: The Social Side of Disasters
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, from the AMS Project, Living on the Real World Reality: Disasters – that...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Today’s reality dose: Hazards have a social side
Reality: Disasters – that is, disruptions of entire communities, persisting after an extreme has come and gone, and exceeding a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A dose of reality about hazards
Reality: The Earth does much of its business through extreme events. The reason that the Arctic and Antarctic aren’t even...
Perspectives
Remembering Katrina and New Orleans
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, from the AMS project, Living on the Real World “…we can not dedicate,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Katrina and New Orleans
“…we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living...
No Do-Overs for Plainfield, Please
If ever there was a day meteorologists might like to do over, it was exactly 20 years ago today, on...
