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"Sleep with your phone on!": Messaging for Nighttime Tornadoes

October 9, 2020

With Hurricane Delta poised to strike Louisiana today, the risk of embedded tornadoes will increase as rainbands spiral ashore, along...

“Sleep with your phone on!”: Messaging for Nighttime Tornadoes

October 9, 2020

With Hurricane Delta poised to strike Louisiana today, the risk of embedded tornadoes will increase as rainbands spiral ashore, along...

Eulerian Weather, Lagrangian Lives

September 29, 2020

by Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia It is clear that Covid-19 will be with us for a while. So will...

Hurricane Sally's Extreme Flood Potential

Hurricane Sally's Extreme Flood Potential

September 16, 2020

Hurricane Sally is inching ashore in southeast Alabama Wednesday morning and has started to flood parts of the central Gulf...

Hurricane Sally’s Extreme Flood Potential

Hurricane Sally’s Extreme Flood Potential

September 16, 2020

Hurricane Sally is inching ashore in southeast Alabama Wednesday morning and has started to flood parts of the central Gulf...

Keeping Score When Temperature Records Are the Expectation

Keeping Score When Temperature Records Are the Expectation

August 19, 2020

Through July, 2020 has been on almost the same track as 2016: the two years had the hottest first seven months in NOAA’s 141...

When Hurricanes Become Machines…or Monsters

May 28, 2020

Officially, the Atlantic season is almost upon us. The season of tropical storms and hurricanes, yes, but more to the...

COVID-19 and the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

COVID-19 and the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

March 27, 2020

by Mary Glackin, AMS President In normal times, our thousands of AMS professionals and colleagues are completely dedicated to helping...

Snowflake Selfies as Meteo Teaching Tools

Snowflake Selfies as Meteo Teaching Tools

March 25, 2020

Undergrads at Penn State recently took to their cellphones to mingle with and snap pics of tiny snowflakes to reinforce...

Is It Just Us…or Was That the BBQ Talking?

January 25, 2018

So many conversations at the 2018 AMS Annual Meeting started–and ended–on the same note, and Dakota Smith captures it just right in his “Weather...