ALT 2025 AMS Senior Named Scholarship recipient Sadie Morris with AMS past president Dave Stensrud and Todd Glickman, sponsor of the scholarship.

ALT Base reflectivity image from the Tallahassee, FL, (KTLH) doppler radar showing a tornadic thunderstorm as it moved ashore into Apalachicola, FL, at 2215 UTC Friday, October 27, 2006. Image credit: NWS Storm Prediction Center.

ALT An industrial landscape featuring large ships and a factory with tall smokestacks emitting dense clouds of smoke. Photo credit: Chris LeBoutillier via Unsplash.

ALT Attendees hugging each other at the 106th Annual Meeting in Houston. Photo credit: Dee Zunker Photography.

ALT A collage of 2026 AMS Photo Contest winners photos. (Clockwise from top left to bottom left) First place winner “Diamond Dust Sky Eye” by Jaroslav Fous, second place winner “Sea Dragon,” by Chris Elkinton, third place winner “Cirrus, the Veils of the Moon,” by Roberto Bueno, members' choice “Rainbow Cataclysm,” by Jeremy Janus.

ALT GOES-16 satellite imagery of lightning in Hurricane Beryl near Texas, July 2024. [Image source: CIRA Satellite Library.]

ALT Logo of the American Meteorological Society Certified Climate Science Professional designation.

ALT This image is a promotional graphic for the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, which will be held in Denver, CO, from January 10-14, 2027. It invites sponsors to "Step into the Spotlight in Denver" and highlights opportunities like the "Presidential Forum" and a "Social Media Wall." On the left, there's a diagram related to flood classification, and the bottom right features the hashtag #AMS2027.

ALT The image is a promotional banner for an upcoming American Meteorological Society webinar titled "Engaging Communities," scheduled for November 3, 2026, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time. It features headshots of two moderators and three panelists from various universities and organizations, including Northwestern University, University of Maryland, University of Arizona, and NOAA Weather Program Office.

ALT GOES-16 visible images of multiband cloud features in the low pressure system for a 1-h period on February 1, 2020 at (a) 1440, (b) 1510, (c) 1525, and (d) 1540 UTC. The multibands can be seen as striations in the cloud reflectance most notably along the 45° azimuth, but also along the 90°–100° azimuth range in all four panels. As time progresses, the striations in the cloud reflectance become more well-defined with an apparent regular oscillation. At 1540 UTC, panel (d), the bands essentially cover the full northeast sector of the storm from ~15° to 115° and near the storm center out to at least a 250-km radius. The data are shown on a storm-centered polar grid with range rings starting at 50 km and ending at 300 km. Note that 0° is pointing to the east. The red line marks the approximate track of the ER-2 aircraft during the 1429–1449 UTC time period. See separately the animation of the GOES-16 satellite imagery for the same time period at the beginning of this article highlight.

ALT Graphic for the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society Presidential Session titled "What Hurricanes Irma and Maria Taught Us About Grassroots Preparedness," will be held on Tuesday, January 12, 2027, at 1:45 PM to 3:00 PM MT. The moderator is named as Travis Washington from the Department of Interior Marine Minerals Administration. Panelists include Ernesto Rodriguez from the National Weather Service, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Chip Kasper from the National Weather Service, Key West, Florida.

ALT 2026 AMS Photo Contest 1st place winner "Diamond dust sky eye" by Jaroslav Fous.

ALT 2026 AMS Photo Contest 2nd place winner "Sea Dragon" by Chris Elkinton.

ALT 2026 AMS Photo Contest 3rd place winner "Cirrus, the Veils of the Moon" by Roberto Bueno.

ALT 2026 AMS Photo Contest Member's Choice winner "Rainbow Cataclysm" by Jeremy Janus.

ALT Aerial photo of the Eaton Fire on the slopes of Mount Wilson, January 8, 2025. USDA Forest Service photo by Matt Muller, HLCO 509. Source: Wikimedia Commons.