From AMS Journals
Violence in the Air: Revealing Connections Between Weather and Shootings in NYC
A paper in the AMS journal Weather, Climate, and Society examines how multiple meteorological factors interact with rates of gun...
Science Spotlights
The Colorful Mystery of Green Thunderstorms
By Lourdes B. Avilés, Associate Provost, Plymouth State University Tornado Warning, a Green Sky Story It was the spring of...
Perspectives
The future of emergency management. Part 4. Three modest, local-level narratives.
…life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt...
The future of emergency management. Part 3. Tasks facing emergency management over the next fifty years.
Emergency management – that is, emergency management as “a community, an idea” – has been hit by disaster. This present-day...
Perspectives
The future of emergency management. Part 2. Emergency management itself is suffering a disaster.
The future of emergency management starts with the present. And today, emergency management in the United States is in growing...
Perspectives
The future of emergency management. Part 1. The future of emergencies themselves.
“If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound if no one is around to hear it?”...
AMS Programs
20 Years, 1,000 Certified Broadcast Meteorologists
In 2025, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program — and appropriately enough, AMS has...
Perspectives
If Dick Hallgren were alive today…what would be his message?
Meteorologists are hardly celebrities. They’re not visible on the world stage in the same way as entertainers or political figures...
From AMS Journals
Earth Interactions: Elucidating Earth systems
The AMS Journal Earth Interactions (EI) focuses on interdisciplinary science that examines interactions between different Earth systems, inclusive of human...
Perspectives
The National Weather Service, NOAA, and their civil servants: Unbroken.
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand[1] published her biography of Louis Zamperini, entitled Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience,...
