- Even without a White Christmas….Snow Measurements Must Go On
The Pacific Northwest still is one of the few shining spots on the snow map for this holiday, but if Seattle is waiting with bated breath (and outstretched tongue) for a big, beautiful White Christmas, Cliff Mass throws a bucket of cold (flakes?) o…
- 24 Dec 21, 2:37am -
- Derecho Possible in the Upper Midwest Today
Severe thunderstorms are expected to erupt late this afternoon in the upper Midwest and, according to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), they could organize into a single, large bowing line capable of widespread damaging winds called a derecho tonig…
- 28 Jul 21, 5:01pm -
- Southeasterners Perceive Tornado Risk Dangerously Different Than They Should, Especially at Night
While a major winter storm last month was plastering the United States from Texas and New Mexico to New England with heavy snow and ice, volatile conditions in the Southeast (SE) spawned damaging and deadly tornadoes. One of these overnight Monday, F…
- 17 Mar 21, 4:45pm -
- The 101st AMS Annual Meeting: Find Your (Virtual) Pathways of Major Themes
We’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate comm…
- 13 Jan 21, 2:48pm -
- AMS Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 5: Community Engagement
As we mentioned in the first post in this series of potential “Virtual” Pathways through the rich AMS Annual Meeting program of parallel conferences, this year’s overarching theme is especially powerful: “Strengthening engagement with communi…
- 10 Jan 21, 4:10pm -
- AMS Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 4: Social Justice
After a year of substantial social injustice-fueled upheavals, the 101st AMS Annual Meeting builds on social justice themes all week and you could make social justice the theme of you own virtual programming, picking and choosing your way through the…
- 10 Jan 21, 12:28am -
- Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Pathway. Part 3: Pandemic Topics
Often our Annual Meeting week feels like a chance to get away from some of the day-to-day issues of work to focus on exchanging scientific ideas with colleagues. This year, the AMS Annual Meeting is a virtual gathering, however, so there’s little c…
- 9 Jan 21, 4:53pm -
- Annual Meeting: Choose Your Own (Virtual) Path- way. Part 2: Weather Extremes and Climate Change
As we noted in the previous blog post, there are multiple ways to navigate an AMS Annual Meeting, even though we’re usually channeled into separate rooms devoted to parallel conferences, each focused on an area of specialization. But this year’s…
- 8 Jan 21, 3:35pm -
- The 101st AMS Annual Meeting: Find Your (Virtual) Pathway of Major Themes
We’re on the verge of the first ever all-virtual AMS Annual Meeting—yet another milestone in a time of milestones, but nonetheless our 101st Annual Meeting. And like all of the mega-gatherings AMS has held for the weather, water, and climate comm…
- 7 Jan 21, 7:48pm -
- Not Just in Their Heads: New Research Confirms Connection Between Weather and Chronic Pain
Stormy weather increases pain. That fact is actually good news for people suffering from chronic pain whose complaints are often dismissed by family, their friends, and even their doctors. Speaking, and likely complaining, about the effect of weather…
- 4 Jan 21, 5:11pm -