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Extreme Heat and Health Impacts and Preparedness for Summer 2024

Amber Liggett | News Item | May 7, 2024

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Huntersville Supercell

Zoey Uram | News Item | May 6, 2024

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Weather You Know: Severe Weather Trivia Night

AMS Staff | Webinar | May 3, 2024

Weather Band Spotlight

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Kevin Kloesel

Kevin is responsible for providing weather forecast and weather safety information to University
of Oklahoma stakeholders and direct forecast and weather decision making for hundreds of
events annually on the OU Campus.

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Fire Rainbow

Tyler Kennedy | News Item | Apr 30, 2024

What we see represented in this photo is what some would call a rare opportunity to capture. The phenomenon is referred to as "Circumhorizontal arc" or some call it a "fire rainbow" or a "sundog". This occurrence was my first experience seeing one of these in pe

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When a Forecaster Issues a Tornado Emergency: Insights from the Front Lines

Ashton Robinson Cook and Bob Henson | News Item | Apr 29, 2024

On May 3, 1999, the first-ever tornado to receive the "tornado emergency" distinction tore across central Oklahoma. That tornado was so high-end, and so close to a large metropolitan area, that forecasters decided to invoke "emergency" to convey a sense of the unusually seriou

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In Forty-five Years

Timothy Press | Solo | Apr 26, 2024

I have written, recorded, and donated this song in the hopes that it is heard by many people. It was my intention to portray a positive message that may help to assuage the pervasive gloom & doom surrounding this subject. I invite you to listen, and maybe it will help move the needle. We all

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

AMS Staff | Webinar | Apr 25, 2024

NHC Director Dr. Mike Brennan highlights improvements to NWS products and services and discusses recent social media chatter on creating a Category 6.
 

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Weather Lens: the 2023 Weather Band Photo Contest Winners

AMS Staff | Webinar | Apr 19, 2024

The 2023 Weather Band Photo Contest winners, Kristy Sharkey, Elan Azriel, and Michael Seger shared the stories behind their stunning photos. Alan Sealls moderated as they discussed their winning entries and offered insights into great weather photography.

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Pigeon Point Green Flash

Jan Null | News Item | Apr 15, 2024

As a long-time meteorologist, I have known of and have been watching for the Green Flash whenever I ventured to the coast at sunset. Those efforts were unsuccessful until about four years ago when I moved to the central California coast and began photographing sunsets regularly with a telephoto l

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Rooting into Plant Hardiness Zone Maps for Blooming Good Gardens

Chris Vagasky | News Item | Apr 11, 2024

Gardeners are well aware of the effects of weather on their plants. The timing and amount of rain, snow, heat, cold, sun, or clouds can impact the performance of their plantings. Climate plays an important role, as well, with some perennial flowers, trees, and shrubs better able to handle colder

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Mountain wave over Lake Ontario

Alan Baughman | News Item | Apr 10, 2024

A Pilot Report over Lake Ontario near Rochester (ROC), New York showing high wind from the east which caused a mountain wave near Rochester west of the mountains.

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Raining Away

Ashley Orehek Rossi | News Item | Apr 8, 2024

Do you ever stop to smell flowers? Sit back and watch the clouds? I’m a huge proponent of purposefully immersing oneself in nature (or lazily basking in the sunshine). Mindfulness lets me find those little moments in nature most people miss and lets the weather come to me instead of me

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Clear Skies Ahead: Matthew Brown

AMS Staff | News Item | Apr 7, 2024

Matthew Brown of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma, on a typical day on the job as a postdoctoral fellow.

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

AMS Staff | Video Share | Apr 5, 2024

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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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Weather Band Maestros: Preparing for the Eclipse

AMS Staff | Default | Apr 3, 2024

Some of AMS Maestros are getting ready to experience the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Check out what they are doing to get ready, and join AMS Weather Band before and after the eclipse for webinars and ways you can get involved!

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Eclipse 2024! Sunblock, Scorpions and Double Diamond Rings

AMS Staff | Video Share | Apr 2, 2024

NASA Heliophysist Dr. Lika Guhathakurta and Dave Jones of StormCenter Communications discuss all you need to know about the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse and more!

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The Weather is Tamed: On-Demand Weather Modification, Fact or Fiction?

AMS Staff | News Item | Apr 2, 2024

Robert L. “Bob” Russell spoke with AMS Executive Director Emeritus Keith Seitter about Russell’s book, Thor’s Apprentice, on the new AMS Author Webinar Series. Thor’s Apprentice is his thought-provoking fictional story of the potential good and evil of on-demand weat

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Iridescent Contrail

Soumyadeep Mukherjee | News Item | Mar 28, 2024

Back in 2020, when I started taking interest and practicing astrophotography, images of different optical phenomenon caught my attention. The beauty and colours of halos, rainbows, and iridescence was something that I fell for and started imaging those, whenever I had a chance.

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

Bob Henson | News Item | Mar 25, 2024

It took quite a while for scientists to gauge the full scope of the damage produced by the 1974 Super Outbreak. One fateful step in this process was when the eminent tornado researcher Tetsuya Theodore “Ted” Fujita flew over and photographed damage tracks. What Fujita discovered in th

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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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