Hurricanes
AMS Programs
Students Converse with Air Force Hurricane Hunter Flight Meteorologists, Tornado Field Researcher
Saturday’s Student Conference at the AMS 100th Annual Meeting kicking off in Boston featured a series of Conversations with Professionals...
Report: Hurricane Michael Upgraded to Category 5 at Landfall
2018’s devastating Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle at Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base in October at Category...
Eight Decades: Mapping New England Catastrophe
Eighty years ago today (September 21st), the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 ripped across New York’s Long Island and...
How Hurricane Florence Could Turn Weird and Deadly
Hurricane Florence is forecast to slow to a crawl as it nears landfall in the next 24 hours. As a...
1871 Hawaii Hurricane Strike Shows Lane's Imminent Danger Isn't Unprecedented
Powerful Hurricane Lane is forecast to skirt if not directly hit Hawaii as a slowly weakening major hurricane today and...
Future Hurricanes a Bit Stronger and Slower, but Much Wetter in a Warmer Climate
It’s been more than 8 months. Since Maria. Irma before. And Harvey before that. For many who endured them, it...
From AMS Journals
Small-scale Vortices Enhanced Winds and Damage in Hurricane Harvey
Severe but highly variable wind damage to homes & infrastructure is a hallmark of intense tropical cyclones. Until recently there...
Did You Hear? Echoes from the Annual Meeting
This year’s AMS Annual Meeting provided no shortage of memorable presentations. The focus on 2017’s hurricanes in particular yielded some of...
Perspectives
Disaster Do-Overs
Ready to do it all over again? Fresh on the heels of a $100+ billion hurricane, we very well may be...
The Trouble with Harvey: Hurricane Intensification Dilemmas
Hurricanes like rapidly-changing Harvey are still full of surprises for forecasters. The remnants of Caribbean Tropical Storm Harvey made a startling...
