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Join us at our 2025 Jamposium to explore the critical role of weather safety messaging in saving lives ⛈️! We’ll discuss how messaging has evolved, what works (and what doesn’t), and how to effectively communicate safety measures during extreme weather, including tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes like Helene and Milton. Learn more and sign up for updates: https://bit.ly/3EhtKVV #AMSJamposium

⏰2 weeks until the Girls Who Chase online Spring Training event, in partnership with COMET MetEd and sponsored by the AMS🌪️! Can’t attend live? No worries—recordings will be available to all registrants shortly after event concludes. Check out the schedule, speakers, and get the ticket now: https://bit.ly/4dXM7vt

WORD OF THE WEEK 💬 Snow eater 1. Any warm wind blowing over a snow surface; usually applied to a foehn wind, that is, schneefresser. 2. A fog over a snow surface; so called because of the frequently observed rapidity with which a snow cover disappears after a fog sets in. As water vapor from the air condenses on the snow, the latent heat of condensation causes the snow to become warmer and melt faster.

#BlackHistoryMonth Spotlight: Bryan Busby is the Chief Meteorologist at KMBC 9 NEWS. Busby served on the AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorologists and as its Chair (1997-1998). A 2023 AMS Fellow, his accolades include nine Emmy Awards and the Black Achievers Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

We’re less than TWO WEEKS away from the 2025 #AMSJamposium! Join us for engaging, in-depth discussions with weather and climate experts on topics including severe weather safety, tornado, El Niño/La Niña, and atmospheric optics. Learn more about this free event ➡️: https://bit.ly/3EhtKVV

According to a new Columbia University-led study, an understanding of the relationship between severe weather and power outages in our changing climate will be critical for hazard response plans. More about this study: https://bit.ly/42MJlqD

AMS joins numerous professional societies in a commitment to champion scientific integrity--including academic freedom, inclusion of diverse perspectives, and policies grounded in scientific evidence--and support scientists, scientific data, and science funding. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e9EV6FtY

BAMS builds connections within the weather, water, and climate community as well as with the greater public. More than ever, BAMS will help you get to know your colleagues and the shared goals and ideas that drive your AMS community. Featured in the newest BAMS Digital Edition: ~ AI/ML: Catalyst for Transformational Change in the National Weather Service ~ Upper Troposphere Aerosol over Amazonia ~ Crossing the Thermal Equator ~ Bolstering Air–Ocean Model Simulations of Cloud Formation Using Seawater Biogeochemistry ~ Close R2O Collaborations Lead to Tighter Jet Recon, Improving TC Track Forecasts . . . and more! Read here: bit.ly/2NXyAIZ

Today in history 🗓 13 February 2006: Central Park in New York City recorded its all-time heaviest snowstorm with 27 inches; snowfall records extend back to 1869. Blizzard conditions struck New England as well, with 30 inches at Fairfield, CT and 18 inches at Boston, MA. This record was broken in January 2016, when 27.5 inches fell between the 22nd and 24th.

Excited to share my latest blog on bridging science, engineering and policy in practice. It's no coincidence that this article was published a day after the AI Action Summit in Paris. While I plan to write separately about my key takeaways from the event, this piece focuses on my experience about AI science-policy advisory role at a colloquium organized by the American Meteorological Society. Science-policy experience is a prerequisite for shaping real solutions to the challenges discussed at the Summit. With the UK and the U.S. taking a markedly different approach to AI openness, safety, security, and transparency than the rest of the world, the need for informed, strategic AI governance has never been greater. Many thanks to the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rita Allen Foundation and National Fair Housing Alliance for supporting my participation in the training.