AMS Annual Meeting 2013 Live Blog

Upgrades to NWS computing capacity expected to improve accuracy of forecasts. […]

Answering some FAQs about the Moore tornado and tornadoes in general. […]

U.S. satellites in immediate need of capital investment--more so than computer and radar systems. […]

Delaware had the greatest percentage decline and Texas the greatest total decline over the studied period of 2000-2010. […]

Polls continue to show that as the weather varies, so do Americans' attitudes about climate change. […]

NASA's Terra satellite captures eruption plume from Cleveland Volcano in Alaska. […]

More than 800 wildfires have already broken out since January, well above the norm for that period, and millions of acres in the state are vulnerable. […]

Speaking of teachable, let’s start with those teachers. Every news vignette reminds us that our K-12 teachers are instructors, but far more. When the situation demands, they’re true first responders. Heroes. But not just heroes. They didn’t just risk life and … Continue reading → […]

What is your only comfort in life and in death? A stunned town and a distraught nation cry out in anguish this morning. Yet another tornado has hit Moore, a suburban community on the outskirts of Oklahoma City.  This is … Continue reading → […]

another guest post from George Leopold… It’s not the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, but the drought gripping the American Great Plains since at least 2011 has reportedly lowered water levels in southern sections of the High Plains Aquifer by … Continue reading → […]