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- Creating a Forecast for Your Location: Procedure and Analysis for the Amateur Weather Enthusiast
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I am approaching this particular blog post with a bit of consternation and reservation. Most of us are so enthralled by the progression of daily weather that we become amateur weather observers.
- By Ben May, Board Director of the National Weather Association Foundation
- A Smattering of Books for the Amateur Weather Enthusiast
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I tend to go overboard for books. I value my library card more than my driver’s license. But then, I’m a book addict.
There are so many books on meteorology that it can stagger the mind. You really don’t need to read a ton of books if you are an amateur, but you should get some orientation and familiarity with terms and processes.
- By Ben May, Board Director of the National Weather Association Foundation
- Buoy Observations During the 1993 "Storm of the Century"
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Beginning on March 8, 1993, numerical weather prediction (NWP) models consistently predicted a deep winter storm for the eastern United States on March 13. These NWP models gave excellent advance notice and produced accurate forecasts of the storm track location. However, the model runs of March 13 considerably underforecast the deepening of the storm in the northeast Gulf of Mexico.
- By David Gilhousen
- Hand Analysis in a Digital Age
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Dive into the fascinating history of weather maps with Barbara Mayes Boustead. In this presentation she reveals the science and process of hand analysis and discusses its relevance in a world of digital maps.
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- April 7, 2024
- Clear Skies Ahead: Mathew Brown
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Matthew Brown of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma, on a typical day on the job as a postdoctoral fellow.
- April 3, 2024
- A Day That Changed Tornado Research - A Look Back at the 1974 Super Outbreak
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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.
- April 3, 2024
- Weather Band Maestros: Preparing for the Eclipse
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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!
- April 2, 2024
- Eclipse 2024! Sunblock, Scorpions and Double Diamond Rings
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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!
- April 2, 2024
- The Weather is Tamed: On-Demand Weather Modification, Fact or Fiction?
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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 weather modification.
- March 28, 2024
- Iridescent Contrail
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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.
- By Soumyadeep Mukherjee
- March 26, 2024
- Electrical Storm Over the Strait of Malacca
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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 Nature Photographic Society of Singapore. In his scientific career, he has published over 100 scientific papers and retired in 2011.
- By Graeme Guy
- March 25, 2024
- Triumph from Tragedy: How a Discovery from the 1974 Super Outbreak Saved Countless Lives
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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 those survey flights a half-century ago ended up transforming aviation safety, and likely saving many thousands of lives.
- By Bob Henson
- March 21, 2024
- Clouds Devouring the Sunset
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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, the clouds, the afternoon and the unwary, like me, crouched on a plane, flying straight into its jaws
- By Carlos Gustavo Blanco Matus