Welcome to AMS News You Can Use. Each week, we send out a sampling of recent news and items of interest in meteorology and
related fields, as covered by various media outlets.
UK Records Driest September Start in More Than 50 Years
AccuWeather - 09/23/2014
Annual Arctic Sea Ice Coverage Sixth-Lowest Ever Recorded
Red Orbit - 09/23/2014
...between 1978 and 1987) and the US Department of Defense s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (which has been active
since 1987). The NSIDC...
The Fickle El Nino of 2014
KATC.com - 09/22/2014
...d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). JPL
manages the U.S. portion...
Clouds of concern, shades of hope
Pittsburgh - Post-Gazette - 09/22/2014
...face up to that. J. Marshall Shepherd Former president, American Meteorological Society It bothers me that people think there s a
big debate...
Climate change affecting cicada population
LOCAL 12 WKRC-TV - 09/22/2014
...before 1950. His research shows this emergence is directly related to the weather. When the average soil temperature gets to 65°,
that triggers...
Five things you didn’t know about NASA’s ISS-RapidScat
Electronic Products Magazine - 09/22/2014
...the three satellite instruments used to measure ocean winds and other meteorological data, RapidScat is only one able to observe
the entire space...
Hurricane Hugo from a meteorologist's perspective
WIS News 10 - 09/22/2014
...1989. The U.S. government operates more than 15 meteorological satellites. Hurricane Hunters regularly fly into potential and
existing tropical cyclones...
Climate Change and Occupational Safety and Health
NIOSH Science Blog - CDC Blogs - 09/22/2014
...ambient temperatures, air pollution, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, extreme weather, vector-borne diseases, and expanded vector
ranges (discussed in...
Marriage Made In The Heavens: Storm-Chasing Engineers Share Passion For Extreme Weather
CBS Philly - 09/22/2014
...property. It s a complex network of systems that collect and integrate meteorological, hydrological, satellite and radar data. The
move to Tornado Alley...
Shanghai Braces for Rain, Strong Winds as Tropical Storm Nears
Bloomberg Businessweek - 09/22/2014
Shanghai Braces for Rain, Strong Winds as Tropical Storm Nears Shanghai raised a yellow warning for rains and strong winds, the
third highest...
Worldwide rallies call for action now on climate change
The Seattle Times - 09/21/2014
...of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth in stride with
demonstrators...
Hugo, 25 years ago, changed the way Americans watch hurricanes
Capital Weather Gang - Washington Post - 09/21/2014
1989 as a Category 4 storm with 135-140 mph winds, confirmed that hurricane forecasting can be an around-the-clock, live news
story lasting days.
Summer Of 2014 Was The Hottest Ever: NOAA Report
International Business Times - 09/20/2014
...temperature fluctuations seem to confirm earlier observations of extreme weather events by the NOAA and other climate research
organizations.
Boulder scientists retrieve old sea ice images
The Washington Times - 09/20/2014
...mission to capture clouds and other atmospheric features to aid the forecasts of hurricanes and other weather events. But now the
satellites...
Chance of 'megadrought' in U.S. Southwest now 50%, study concludes
CapitalGazette.com - 09/19/2014
...author of the study, which will be published next month in the American Meteorological Society s Journal of Climate. The current
drought, he said,
Stunning Satellite View of California’s Massive King Fire. With Climate Change, We Should Expect More Such Views
Discover Magazine Blogs - 09/19/2014
...blaze. The Weather Guys at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies offer a clear explanation of this
fascinating phenomenon:
First-ever weather instrument to dock on International Space Station, may improve hurricane forecasts
Capital Weather Gang - Washington Post - 09/19/2014
...weather instrument to dock on International Space Station, may improve hurricane forecasts On Saturday, NASA will launch into a
space an instrument...
Mysterious 1808 Eruption - The Real Cause Of The Coldest Decade Of The Last 500 Years
Science 2.0 - 09/18/2014
...obviously paleoclimatology and volcanology, but also 19th century meteorology and Spanish colonial history and has also needed
rigorous precision...
Report Warns That Superstorm Sandy Was Not 'The Big One'
The Huffington Post - 09/18/2014
...to 156 miles per hour. Here are the wind gusts that the hurricane created, shown by county: Our weather forecasts are much more
sophisticated...
Mother-daughter research team studies severe-weather phobia
KU Today - 09/18/2014
...population. The study was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and the authors presented it at the
American Psychological...
Public Invited to NASA Goddard Nimbus Satellite Program 50th Anniversary
Yahoo! News - 09/17/2014
...in demonstrating the instrument technology used on today's meteorological satellites. The Nimbus instruments monitored Earth's
meteorological,
Studies: Tornado seasons peaking earlier, becoming more volatile
Capital Weather Gang - Washington Post - 09/17/2014
Studies: Tornado seasons peaking earlier, becoming more volatile Tornado season is the U.S. is peaking earlier, with wilder swings
from year...
Tropical Storms Pile Up Back-to-Back-to-Back Out West
Bloomberg Businessweek - 09/17/2014
...Storms Pile Up Back-to-Back-to-Back Out West Tropical Storm Polo, the 16th storm of an unusually active eastern Pacific hurricane
season, is...
Hurricane Ivan taught us the importance of building stronger: guest opinion
AL.com - 09/16/2014
...a better future. As we remember the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Ivan during National Preparedness Month, let's place a
renewed focus on...
Are Kashmir's Floods India's Katrina Moment?
The Huffington Post - Blog - 09/15/2014
...nothing to drink nor eat for days, as they slowly and literally watch their lives being washed away. The Indian government was quick
to come...
Fla. home insurance eases since 2004 hurricanes
USA Today - 09/06/2014
...the point where Florida, by one estimation, leads the nation in premium costs. Now, a decade after Hurricanes Charley, Frances,
Ivan and Jeanne...
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