AMS Meetings
Don't Stop Now–Keep Meeting Year-Round!
Listening to interesting presentations from experts, encountering new ideas, chatting with old friends, and meeting new ones. This doesn’t have...
Buy This Book and Save the Planet
Saving the planet is a cooperative effort, says William Hooke of the AMS Policy Program. It will also take some...
AMS Book Takes ASLI Awards by Storm
Wednesday afternoon, AMS Books will take a bow. Taken by Storm 1938: A Social and Meteorological History of the Great...
The Polar Vortex Meets Rapid Refresh
In 1959 the AMS published a tome that became the touchstone document for a generation. The Glossary of Meteorology served its purpose...
AMS Presidential Town Hall Meeting to Stress Adaptation, Resilience to Climate Change
In weather forecasting, the past is often a harbinger of the future. In a rapidly urbanizing world facing climate change,...
Reassessing the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale
It’s been more than 40 years since Ted Fujita introduced his renowned Tornado Damage Scale – the Fujita Scale. And...
At WeatherFest You're Gods, Not Groundhogs
“I’m a god. I’m not “the* god. I don’t think…”–TV meteorologist Phil Connors, in Groundhog Day Your alarm buzzed, you...
Use Your Words
In the halls of Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center this week you can say “drought.” You can say “polar vortex”...
Atlanta Roads Lead to Annual Meeting Theme
As society urbanizes, weather impacts are exacerbated in sometimes-unfamiliar ways. Case in point: the snow, ice, and cold that paralyzed...
Annual Meeting Session to Feature Solar Energy Contest Winners
The AMS Solar Energy Prediction Contest brought together participants from around the world to tackle the problem of improving solar...
