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 ...

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

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 ...

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 Humberto (right) churns over the open Atlantic Ocean southeast of Bermuda, while Hurricane Imelda swipes at Florida with its fringe rainbands in late September 2025. Heavy surf and deadly ...

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 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 ...

The State of the Climate report, the most comprehensive annual global climate report, is published each year as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The newly released ...

Identifying optimal starting conditions can reduce the weather forecast “butterfly effect.” It’s accepted wisdom, when running a weather forecast model, that small errors and uncertainties in the ...

The American Meteorological Society and Virginia Sea Grant (VASG) have launched a new partnership designed to strengthen the pipeline between Earth system science and public policy. Through the ...

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 ...