Emergency Management
Science Spotlights
How 2026 World Cup Venues Handle the Heat (and Humidity, and Storms…)
Meteorologists discuss how cities are keeping fans safe from dangerous weather during the World Cup--and what fans can do to prepare.
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: “Ornamental twilight,” heat deaths, hurricane eyes
The latest research from AMS journals discusses heat deaths and warning thresholds, forecasting "flaming clouds", hurricane reconnaissance, increased U.S. precipitation volatility, and more.
AMS Updates
Be There: Weather-Ready Nation Asks Big What Ifs… ? at its 14th Annual Symposium
The WRN Symposium’s “What If…” session joins forces with the National Weather Association’s RON Meetup at the 2026 AMS Annual...
AMS Updates
Be There: The First Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium
The 2026 AMS Annual Meeting will host the First Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium, as a changing climate and growing global population bring disasters into ever greater focus.
Across AMS, Conference Spotlight
“Once in a Generation”: The 2022 Buffalo Blizzard
A Research Spotlight from 32WAF/28NWP/20Meso On 23 December, 2022, David Zaff of the National Weather Service’s Buffalo office walked out...
After the Disasters, How to Be a Holiday-Ready Nation
Weather took hundreds of lives in a record 12 billion-dollar disasters in the United States in 2011. Internationally, the disaster...
A Siren Song for Top-Down Emergency-Preparedness Thinking?
Those of us of a certain age and place in the American experience talk a lot about the meaning of...
