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Wilder Weather: Data and Science in the Novel, The Long Winter
Even tall tales have their facts, but in historical fiction the myriad factual details often far outshine the story itself. In the ever popular...
"Megaflashes": How Long Can a Lightning Discharge Be?
Even though Earth’s atmosphere is laced by more than a billion brilliant discharges of electricity every year, lightning itself never...
“Megaflashes”: How Long Can a Lightning Discharge Be?
Even though Earth’s atmosphere is laced by more than a billion brilliant discharges of electricity every year, lightning itself never...
From AMS Journals
New Western Storms Scale to Describe Intensity, Potential Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers
Hurricanes are classified by the Saffir-Simpson Scale and tornadoes by the Enhanced Fujita Scale, and now atmospheric rivers—those long, transient...
Satellites Capture Weather History in the Making
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16, now GOES-East, became operational in December and this eye in the sky is capturing stunning...
Epic Blizzards Paralyzed New England, Midwest 40 Years Ago
By Chris Cappella, AMS It began with a whisper. And ended in smothered silence for millions. I’ll never...
Perspectives
Naming Winter Storms: Time for Community Cooperation
by Mary M. Glackin, Senior Vice President, Public-Private Partnerships, The Weather Company Forecasts of hazardous weather have continually improved, particularly...
Dual Pol Radar Shedding Light on "Wintry Mix"
A recent article in the New Yorker tried in vain to dissect and understand the term “wintry mix,” only to...
New Standard Aims to Improve Tornado, Severe Wind Estimates
By Jim LaDue, NWS Warning Decision Training Branch For more than four decades, the go-to for rating tornadoes has been...
Use Your Words
In the halls of Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center this week you can say “drought.” You can say “polar vortex”...
