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Triumph from Tragedy: How a Discovery from the 1974 Super Outbreak Saved Countless Lives

Bob Henson | News Item | Mar 25, 2024

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Weather You Know: Severe Weather Trivia

AMS Staff | Default | Mar 28, 2024

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Iridescent Contrail

Soumyadeep Mukherjee | News Item | Mar 28, 2024

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Marisa Ferger

Marisa Ferger has worked with the Weather Communications Group at Penn State University for two decades, where she produces and forecasts for the show Weather World and teaches courses in weather communications. Hailing from a small coastal town in NY, she credits Hurricane Gloria with fostering her interest in the weather.

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Electrical Storm Over the Strait of Malacca

Graeme Guy | News Item | Mar 26, 2024

Graeme Guy was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He had appointments as a biochemistry researcher in Australia, England and Singapore. A major interest for most of his life has been nature photography with all the natural world being potential targets. While living in Singapore Graeme founded the

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Clouds Devouring the Sunset

Carlos Gustavo Blanco Matus | News Item | Mar 21, 2024

I looked out the window and saw the clouds, illuminated by that orange color of the sun at sunset, majestic, losing all dimension and proportion, and when I made several clicks I noticed the figure that was formed in the clouds, those of an immense shark , about to devour everything in its path,

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Fata Morgana in the Arctic

Ellie Van Os | News Item | Mar 19, 2024

Fata Morgana is a pretty simple physics principle. When there is a large difference in temperature between a surface and the air immediately above it, this causes a thermal inversion due to the difference in density that bends the light making objects on the horizon appear lengthened or raised up

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Fogbow Over Pack Ice

Ellie Van Os | News Item | Mar 14, 2024

In the arctic winter, the air is cold and the water is frozen and out of circulation, therefore the atmosphere is clear. With summer warming comes cracks in the pack ice. As the dark water is warmed by the atmosphere, water droplets escape into the atmosphere forming fog and clouds. 

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Avalanche Safety 101

AMS Staff | Webinar | Mar 12, 2024

Join the Weather Band for an educational webinar on avalanches, featuring expert insights on identifying risk factors, weather influences, and safety measures.

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Mapping Inequity

AMS Staff | News Item | Mar 8, 2024

Air pollution does not affect all populations equally, and a new website seeks 
to highlight disparities in the United States by mapping exposure to particulate airborne 
matter, known as PM2.5, by various demographics.

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These Data Are for the Birds

AMS Staff | News Item | Mar 6, 2024

As the lowest layer of the tropo­sphere, the planetary boundary layer (PBL) connects the atmosphere to Earth’s surface and significantly influences weather and climate, which means “understanding PBL dynamics is fundamental to answering a lot of questions about the Earth system.&r

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"Once in a Generation": The 2022 Buffalo Blizzard A Research Spotlight from 32WAF/28NWP/20Meso

AMS Staff | News Item | Mar 4, 2024

At the height of the 2022 holiday travel season in New York, a four-day blizzard and lake-effect snow event knocked out power for more than 100,000 people, paralyzed emergency services and holiday travel, and left at least 47 dead.

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Heading into the 2024 Hurricane Season: What Everyone Needs to Know

AMS Staff | Default | Apr 24, 2024

Join us as we approach the start of hurricane season with NHC Director Dr. Mike Brennan as he highlights improvements to NWS products and services, and discusses recent social media chatter on creating a Category 6.

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A Day That Changed Tornado Research - A Look Back at the 1974 Super Outbreak

AMS Staff | Default | Apr 3, 2024

Join our special 90-minute webinar discussing the historic April 3-4, 1974 tornado outbreak, which devastated 13 states and Ontario with at least 148 tornadoes, including the most F5 tornadoes from a single event.

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Eclipse 2024! Sunblock, Scorpions and Double Diamond Rings!

AMS Staff | Default | Apr 2, 2024

Join us for a lively discussion on the 8 April total solar eclipse crossing the U.S., including insights on NASA's Heliophysics Big Year & live streaming the event from Texas!

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Global Weather Modeling: Where We Are, and What the Future Holds

AMS Staff | Webinar | Mar 1, 2024

Our experts highlighted the significance of global weather models in forecasting, discussing their recent performance improvements and upcoming upgrades.

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Citizen Science: Advancing Weather and Climate Science One Observation at a Time

AMS Staff | Webinar | Mar 1, 2024

Learn how citizen scientists contribute to weather forecasting by participating in programs like CoCoRaHS, NWS COOP, and Skywarn, which helps to improve forecast accuracy and warning systems.
 

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Eclipse 2024: Solar Science in Action

AMS Staff | Webinar | Mar 1, 2024

Learn how to take part in citizen science projects during the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse! Now is your chance to connect with scientists and contribute to important discoveries!

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Attribution Science: Helping to Understand Weather in a Changing Climate

AMS Staff | Webinar | Feb 29, 2024

Climate Central and the American Meteorological Society explore attribution science, highlighting climate change's impact on weather, from extreme events to everyday temperatures, and how meteorologists are integrating these insights into their work and using new tools to understand how our chang

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Science Communication in Today's Media Landscape

AMS Staff | Webinar | Feb 29, 2024

The panel looks at the coverage of weather events by the media, including story selection, geographic bias, and maintaining public trust in news sources, offering insights on effective science communication.

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Recent Extreme Events and What Is on the Horizon

AMS Staff | Webinar | Feb 29, 2024

Experts discuss ongoing extreme weather events in 2024, including snowstorms, the Polar Vortex, El Niño impacts, and upcoming severe weather, highlighting recent impacts and expectations for spring and summer.

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Catching Electrical Storms

Graeme Guy | News Item | Feb 12, 2024

Living on Penang Island, Graeme Guy witnessed frequent tropical storms and waterspouts emanating from local weather conditions, especially those building up over mainland Malaysia. Using a specific photographic protocol and tracking lightning strikes from a website, he captured stunning images of

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Picking Up the Pace

AMS Staff | News Item | Feb 9, 2024

56.7% — The probability of a hurricane’s maximum intensification rate in a 24-hour window being 20 knots (23 miles per hour) or greater for the years 2001–20—an increase from 42.3% for the years 1971–90. 

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