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

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 ...

AMS just announced the winners of its 2026 AMS Photo Contest. Our panel of judges chose three photos among the 1,075 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rare snowfall on saguaro cacti in Tucson, Arizona, in early March 2023, taken from Xubin Zeng’s backyard. In contrast to that wet winter over the southwest United States, the seasonal prediction ...

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 ...

It was the spring of 2001, during my time as a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I was part of a team of teaching assistants that ...

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 ...

As weather and climate challenges become increasingly complex, meaningful conversations across the global weather enterprise have never been more important. The WeatherPod has become a platform for ...