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WORD OF THE WEEK 💬 Canterbury northwester — A strong northwest foehn wind descending the New Zealand Alps onto the Canterbury Plains of South Island, New Zealand. Read more about Canterbury northwester: https://bit.ly/3WeNmPE Photo credit 📷: New Zealand Geographic

AMS Career Advisers working in weather, water, and climate fields will review your resume and offer tips and advice on how to make improvements. Learn what specific sectors are looking for so you can set yourself apart from the competition. Register now: https://bit.ly/46IfNe1

Are you interested in "Responsible Integration of #AI in #Climate Modeling, Projections and Services?" Submit an abstract to this session at American Meteorological Society's 105th Annual Meeting, taking place in New Orleans, LA, from January 12-16, 2025! Submission Deadline is August 15, 2024: https://bit.ly/4dmcLy6 #data #sustainable #community

Our own Director of Weather Programs, Elizabeth Wilson, PMP will be speaking on a panel of esteemed industry representatives at the American Meteorological Society’s Summer Community Meeting next week in Washington, DC. The meeting this year is focusing on the growth of the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise over the past 20 years since the release of the Fair Weather report and will cover topics ranging from observations to numerical weather prediction to AI. Given Synoptic’s role as a leader in the data aggregation and observations space, Elizabeth will participate in a panel on observations entitled “Observations in Support of a Vibrant Enterprise.” If you’ll be in DC on Monday, August 5th, we’d love to see you there! https://zurl.co/uLf1 #AMSSummerMeeting #dataaggregation #weatherobservations

We are proud to be a sponsor of American Meteorological Society's #AMSSCM2024 in Washington, D.C. next week. Experts from Next Phase will also attend the 2024 Summer Community Meeting, including President and CEO, Lisa Wolff; NOAA Client Liaison, Al Wissman; Engineering Practice Lead, Rick Singer, PMP; Scientist, Nathan Warner; and Analyst and Amateur Weather Observer, Alex Brooks. Next Phase serves NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in its mission to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts through well engineered scientific systems and analyses.

The study of convectively coupled Kelvin waves has implications for predicting extreme weather events like hurricanes and heavy rainfall. Read about this collaborative research from University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science and NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research: https://bit.ly/3Wk3n72

At our previous Annual Student Conference, more than 700 students discussed environmental changes and presented their research. For #AMSStudent2025, AMS invites students in weather, water, and climate to explore "Diverse Backgrounds, Unified Futures: Charting Our Collective Course." Learn more about our student conference and submit an abstract by 19 September: https://bit.ly/4bWQndj

PhD student Jacob Snyder brought experience with ocean research and LGBTQ+ advocacy to the AMS Science Policy Colloquium. They hope to use what they learned this June to help advance inclusive ocean management. More on the blog: https://bit.ly/3zYjqzW

Today in history 🗓 31 July 1976: A 20-foot high wall of water traveling at 50 mph created by 10 inches of rain from a stationary front tore down Colorado’s Big Thompson Canyon, leaving a 25-mile path of destruction from Estes Park to Loveland and causing 144 fatalities.

Need help with an insurance claim, a court case, or interpreting weather data? Browse specialties in the AMS Weather & Climate Service Providers Directory and connect with an expert: https://bit.ly/3jQpByA #weatherdata