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The sounds of summer are often those of kids racing across sunlit fields, canoes gliding through a warm lake, the distant hum of lawnmowers and the sizzle of backyard cookouts. But in many parts of the world, these golden afternoons can change in an instant. Towering clouds roll in and overtake the midday sun, before lightning slices across the sky with a boom that sends swimmers, yard-workers, and families scrambling for shelter.

ACM Members have wide-ranging areas of expertise that they contribute to diverse fields within the weather and climate community, weather-impacted industries, and education.

ACM Consulting Member Rick Shema’s recent presentation at the CMA Shipping Conference in Stamford, CT, highlights this fact. Rick specializes in maritime meteorology and forecasting, and he shared his knowledge and insight about the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in maritime forecasting.....

Ninety years ago on April 14th, 1935, a cold front swept across the bone-dry Great Plains, stirring the earth into the sky. What began as a breezy spring afternoon quickly transformed into a suffocating nightmare. A wall of dust estimated to be 500-600 feet high blotted out the sun, choked out the air, and left behind a devastated region and period of American history that, by the following day, became known as the Dust Bowl (1). This infamous day was Black Sunday, when a cataclysmic dust storm became a symbol of what happens when land, climate, and human activity fall out of sync.