As governments, industries, and communities seek to plan for the future in the face of a changing environment, demand is high ...

We are in the fourth quarter, but this is not a basketball game with a finite ending. It’s the fourth quarter of the calendar ...

AMS just announced the winners of its 2026 AMS Photo Contest. Our panel of judges chose three photos among the 1,075 ...

Christian Kummerow of Colorado State University has been named the recipient of the 2027 AMS Verner E. Suomi Technology Medal ...

Stephen R. Guimond1 Extratropical cyclones frequently contain multibanded cloud and precipitation structures that can ...

Discussing advances and challenges in the field of fire weather, fire prediction, and damage mitigation at the 2026 Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting (AWF/SCM) session and an AMS ...

Hurricane Lowell at strong Category 3 intensity of 125 mph begins its sharp north-northeast turn toward the western Hawaiian Islands. [Source: NOAA] Whenever NOAA issues and then updates its hurricane ...

The violent underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haapai volcano in the South Pacific on January 15, 2022, generated a near-field tsunami that reached heights of several tens of meters. The ...

Melissa is the latest example of a rapidly intensifying Atlantic hurricane prior to landfall, smashing into Jamaica as an extreme Catgory 5 in late October 2025. Rapid intensification (RI) of tropical ...

Guest post by Dr. Michael Brennan, Director, National Hurricane Center; Daniel Brown, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Hurricane Center; and Leah Pope, Hydrologist, Northwest River ...

Receding floodwaters reveal a washed-out bridge in Central Texas, July 2025. [Image source: World Central Kitchen, located on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons] In the dark early morning of July 4, 2025, ...

A temperature reading taken in Death Valley, California holds the World Meteorological Organization’s record as the hottest weather-related air-surface temperature recorded on Earth: 134 °F. New ...