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AMS 2024 Session Highlight: The Evolution of Observation: How the AMS Measurements Committee Can Better Serve the Community

AMS 2024 Session Highlight: The Evolution of Observation: How the AMS Measurements Committee Can Better Serve the Community

January 31, 2024

A Town Hall at the AMS 104th Annual Meeting With measurement techniques and systems rapidly evolving in response to a...

Be There: GATE 50th Anniversary Celebration

Be There: GATE 50th Anniversary Celebration

January 31, 2024

Fifty years ago this summer, the most ambitious tropical field experiment ever attempted began along the coast of West Africa....

Nudge Theory and Choice Architecture: Can Weather Social Science Be this Simple?

Nudge Theory and Choice Architecture: Can Weather Social Science Be this Simple?

October 26, 2023

By Kim Klockow McClain Over the past decade or two, interest has grown rapidly in bringing social science insights to...

Do Roads Have Weather?

Do Roads Have Weather?

August 31, 2023

By William B. Gail Perhaps you’ve heard the term “road weather”.  Maybe you wonder why we need a name for...

Hurricane Hazards: Know What You’re Facing

Hurricane Hazards: Know What You’re Facing

August 24, 2023

We’re now in the middle of Atlantic hurricane season (June through November). Are you prepared? With powerful winds, rain, and...

How Weather Impacts Major Airports in the United States

How Weather Impacts Major Airports in the United States

July 28, 2023

Weather impacts airplane flights and airport operations in a variety of ways and is a major concern for the aviation...

Invisible Rainbows: Secrets of the Sky’s Most Colorful Phenomena

Invisible Rainbows: Secrets of the Sky’s Most Colorful Phenomena

July 13, 2023

By Lourdes B. Avilés, Ph.D. Part I – A Few Introductions Rainbows are certainly conspicuous. We have all seen them,...

November 10, 1967: NASA’s First Color Picture of the Earth

November 10, 1967: NASA’s First Color Picture of the Earth

June 26, 2023

Photography has been an important tool in the atmospheric sciences since it was invented, and as photography advanced, so too...

Lightning Data

Lightning Data

April 25, 2023

By Chris Vagasky Lightning season is getting closer now that we’ve entered the spring months. In fact, a paper published...

Conjecture: If God can be okay with doubt, then so can we.

March 23, 2023

“A God who let us prove His existence would be an idol.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tim Palmer, in closing out...