Hurricanes
Improving Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
Tropical cyclones are usually associated with bad news, but a long-term study about these storms now posted online for publication in...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has begun. If they haven’t already, people who could be affected by tropical storms and hurricanes should...
Time to Lengthen the Official Hurricane Season?
Last week, the fourth named storm—Danielle—of the Atlantic hurricane season formed. It was the earliest such formation in any of...
Survivors Meet the Storm
As Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) headed their way this weekend, Filipinos began to show they were a people far too experienced...
Time to Heed the Hurricane Season Forecast?
With this year’s Atlantic hurricane season getting underway, seasonal forecasts are collectively calling for a quieter-than-usual year in the Atlantic...
One Year Later, Sandy Still Resonates
The scars from Superstorm Sandy remain evident, even a year after it blasted the North Atlantic coast. In some areas,...
New AMS Book Remembers the Great New England Hurricane
It has been known by many names: the Yankee Clipper, the Great New England Hurricane, the Long Island Express ....
From AMS Journals
A New Metric for Hurricane Destruction Potential
Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Ike (2008), and Sandy (2012) have proven the Saffir-Simpson Scale is inadequate for expressing hurricane destructiveness. This...
Hurricane Center Changes Policy to Include Sandy-like Storms; AMS Forum Assists
If another storm like Sandy threatens land while on the cusp between tropical and extratropical classification, National Hurricane Center (NHC)...
Hurricane Sandy: NHC Final Report and AMS Town Hall Presentations Online
The National Hurricane Center released its post-storm report on Hurricane Sandy this week, confirming the many nuances of the late-season...
