Hurricanes
Sandy at the AMS Meeting: A Study in Adaptation, An Opportunity to Participate
by Tanja Fransen, NOAA Ninety-three. That is how many annual meetings the American Meteorological Society has hosted. Planning for an...
The Silver Lining of Disaster
There aren’t many reasons to consider a volcanic eruption a positive event, but if results from recent research by Amato...
Across AMS
NOAA Appoints New Director for Hurricane Center
Rick Knabb has been named the new director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center. He replaces outgoing director Bill Read and...
Video Whirls Thru Hyperactive Hurricane Season
NOAA recently posted its annual video compilation of the entire 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, and it’s impressive. Crammed into just...
Perspectives
The Storm That Started a Drought?
by Robert V. Sobczak, National Park Service, Big Cypress National Preserve. Reposted from his blog, The South Florida Watershed Journal....
A Slow Start, but Gaining Fast
Tropical Storm Lisa became the 12th named storm in the Atlantic Basin this week in what has suddenly become the...
How Much Was That Forecast Worth?
Despite the general good fortune that the storm stayed out at sea, there are plenty of grumblings about the cost...
Inside Earl
NASA’s GRIP mission (Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes) is sending aircraft into Hurricane Earl, coming up with some wonderful imagery...
Perspectives
Remembering Katrina and New Orleans
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, from the AMS project, Living on the Real World “…we can not dedicate,...
Beware the Wrath of a Presidential Storm
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) may indeed have underestimated the danger that Typhoon Conson posed to...
