In late July, I traveled to the U.S. Capitol. While many tourists were there on vacation, it wasn’t actually a vacation for ...

Patrick C. Burke1 In the early hours of August 21, 2021, an extreme rainfall event set a 24-h gauge record for Tennessee and ...

Bill Hooke shares a few impressions and takeaways from the 2026 Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting.

The American Meteorological Society is excited to announce the launch of a new journal for short-form articles. To be ...

Where Fire Science Stands Today Large, destructive wildfire events are on the rise in the United States, and fires at the urban-wildland interface pose increasing challenges to human safety. A recent ...

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 ...

Marciano’s career has taken him well beyond forecasting the weather. His work has included reporting on science and technology and exploring innovations that could shape the future. His latest book, ...

New research published in AMS journals discusses neighborhood-level forecasting of hurricane impacts, how deforestation in New Guinea affects North American temperatures, evidence climate change is ...

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 ...

Earth Day is a time to stop, focus, celebrate and appreciate the planet — it’s the only one we have. The American Meteorological Society does that every day via our members in weather, water and ...

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 ...