Severe Weather
BAMS Report Editors Named "Leading Thinkers" of 2013
The September issue of BAMS included a special supplement, “Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective,” edited by...
NWS Experiment Chooses Words To Improve Warnings
The National Weather Service recently announced plans to expand the use of its experimental impact-based storm warnings to include all...
Dealing with Drought in the Heart of Texas
In 2011, Texas experienced its hottest summer on record along with a drought that has yet to let up. According...
Climate and Weather Extremes: Asking the Right Questions
The still-developing field of attribution science examines specific weather events and short-term atmospheric patterns in a broader, longer-term climate context....
New Study Now Quantifies the "Huge" Seafloor Movement in 2011 Japanese Earthquake
At a magnitude of 9.0, the earthquake off the Japanese coast last March was already known as one of the...
The Services Response to the Tōhoku Disaster a Focus of the 2012 AMS Meeting
The science ministry in Japan reported last week that more than 30,000 square km–eight percent of the country–is contaminated by radioactive...
IPCC's New Special Report: Adapt to Extremes, but Prepare for the Presentation
For a first reaction to the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report, Special Report on Managing the Risks of...
Did Monday's Storm Set a Reporting Record?
A storm system that stretched from the Mississippi River to the mid-Atlantic states on Monday brought more than 1,300 reports...
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....
Recreational Tornado Chasing: the Psychology of Risk
Who seeks the thrill of nature at its most beastly? Researchers at the University of Missouri’s School of Natural Resources...
