For Jennifer D. Small Griswold, teaching atmospheric science has always been about more than conveying scientific knowledge.

The U.S. Climate Collection has published its first paper, with 175 authors outlining research priorities for future ...

September is Hispanic & Latino/a Heritage Month. In this post, we spotlight the exceptional career of one of our community members: Jenniffer Guerra. Guerra is a meteorologist originally from Cuba ...

September is Hispanic & Latino/a Heritage Month. In this post, we spotlight the exceptional career of one of our community members: Rodney Martinez. Yes, I have several outstanding colleagues that ...

The AMS Photo Contest (formerly the AMS Weather Band Photo Contest) is back and open for submissions! The 2026 American Meteorological Society Photo Contest is looking for standout images of weather, ...

For Jennifer D. Small Griswold, teaching atmospheric science has always been about more than conveying scientific knowledge. It is about helping students discover their curiosity, recognize their ...

September is Hispanic & Latino/a Heritage Month. In this post, we spotlight the exceptional career of one of our community... We’re highlighting the people of AMS, supporting the theme for our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.