For Jeffrey Pierce, the path to becoming an atmospheric scientist was not entirely planned. It began with an interest in math ...

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

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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 ...

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, ...

Rainbows are certainly conspicuous. We have all seen them, we all know their colors, and many of us know about how they form when the essentially white sunlight is refracted and reflected inside ...

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

According to the 36th annual State of the Climate report, greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level, and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2025. The report is the most comprehensive ...

Medicane Ianos precipitation: GPM DPR near-surface corrected reflectivity (normal scan). Figure 11 in “Ianos—A Hurricane in the Mediterranean.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103, 6.

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 ...

The term “medicane” (short for Mediterranean hurricane) has been used for more than two decades to identify storms that develop over the Mediterranean yet appear similar to tropical cyclones. They do ...