Forecasters would love to predict violent weather with more accuracy and longer lead times. Researchers are helping them by unraveling the science behind the complex sequence of events that lead to tornadoes.

If it seemed like summer never came this year, it wasn’t your imagination.

Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex. Pilots pored over reams of paper and compared the forecasts with their flight plans. Once airborne, they depended on radio communications and rudimentary radar to avoid bad weather.

Justin Schulte, is being awarded a Mark B. Bain Graduate Fellowship

Meteorologists needed in future to sort through ever-mounting data

— posted on Aug 20, 2014 11:01 AM

Joel Myers — founder of AccuWeather — gave the lead presentation at the summer American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting at Penn State University this past week. It was a sobering experience.