“I must hurry, for there go my people, and I am their leader.” – sign on the office wall of Jack Townsend in the early 1970’s, when he was an associate administrator of NOAA under Robert M. White. _______________________ Years … Continue reading →

Perhaps you were able to watch Marshall Shepherd with Bob Schieffer on CBS’ Face the Nation earlier today. Oh, you missed it? You’ll find the video clip here. Readers of this blog almost certainly include future presidents of the American … Continue reading →

Face the Nation is covering the weather this morning. They’re featuring Marshall Shepherd, AMS Past-President, and North  Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. Watch it. You’ll be glad you did.

Every so often, even nature provides a do-over. Turns out that the ice storm that shut down Atlanta (and virtually no one else) was merely providing a tune-up for cities up and down the entire east coast. The real impact … Continue reading →

Atlanta. Everyone knows what happened in Atlanta, Georgia on January 28-29. An ice storm turned the city’s main thoroughfares and expressways into congested tangles of cars and trucks. Some drivers were trapped for as long as eighteen hours in the … Continue reading →

At the AMS Annual Meeting just concluded, Jeff Rosenfeld, the editor of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), and I had a chance to connect with each other for a brief conversation. You can see and hear it … Continue reading →

Just one of many cool things about DC is that it hosts thousands (count ‘em!) of NGO’s all in the business of doing good. Even in this competitive field, one of the most interesting and refreshing of such organizations is … Continue reading →

You want to join us there! Here are four reasons why. 1. Weather-Climate Extremes and the Built Environment are the centralized organizing theme of this year’s meeting; Superstorm Sandy and its aftermath have served to focus American minds on this … Continue reading →

Joanne Simpson was an exceptional scientist… and a remarkable human being. In every conversation, every action, and every collaboration, she didn’t simply impart information. She transformed the lives of those around her. In the same way the American Meteorological Society … Continue reading →

AMS Past President Jon Malay has just edited a must-buy volume, with the compelling title, Partly to Mostly Funny: The Ultimate Weather Joke Book. Lourdes Avila, author of Taken by Storm, 1938: A Social and Meteorological History of the Great … Continue reading →