Using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies may help scientists better understand weather and weather variability. As the climate changes, this may help prepare people for changes in their region's weather patterns, and better preparedness could save money and lives.
Kelly Nunez Ocasio earned the American Meteorology Society’s student award for her presentation at the organization’s Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability that was held in early January.
Mars is experiencing an estimated 15.8-million–square-mile dust storm, roughly the size of North and South America. This storm may not be good news for the NASA solar-powered Opportunity rover, but one Penn State professor — Steven Greybush of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and Institute for CyberScience — sees this as a chance to learn more about Martian weather.
Effective immediately, this morning’s winter weather event has caused Penn State to cancel all activities on campus, including classes and exams, until 5 p.m. today (Feb. 7). Evening classes and activities that begin after 5 p.m. will continue as scheduled.
While the overprescribing of opioid-based painkillers may be the main driver of the increased abuse of opioids in rural America, it may be more complex than that. Economists say that other factors, including declining farm income, extreme weather and other natural disasters, may affect a crisis that is killing thousands of citizens and costing the country billions of dollars.
Predicting the weather is a challenge, but predicting who will win the national WxChallenge isn’t nearly as hard. Penn State’s WxChallenge team continues to dominate the 20-week weather forecasting competition, recently earning its sixth straight top finish.
A Penn State Abington freshman and future meteorologist has 11,000 followers on his MidAtlantic Weather Center Facebook page.
Halfway through a round of golf at the Penn State Golf Courses, dark clouds gather in the distance. In a few minutes, the sky could unleash soaking rain, dangerous lightning or perhaps nothing at all. But thanks to technology developed by Edward Mansouri, a Penn State alumnus, golfers will receive new and improved weather alerts from course officials.
For the fifth year in a row, Penn State students ousted more than 2,000 competitors in the national collegiate weather forecasting contest known as Wx Challenge. In the contest, students forecast weather in 10 different U.S. cities across two semesters. The Penn State students leveraged a meteorology course for their success.
In past years, weather events caused delays in the start of activities and classes, or the cancellation of classes, on the University Park campus. Those events spark questions among faculty, staff and students, so Penn State News has posted answers to the most frequently asked weather-related questions.
Penn State football fans looking for game day weather conditions and forecasts now have free access to real-time weather data directly from Beaver Stadium through WeatherSTEM — a full-service weather station that measures everything from wind speed to soil moisture to solar radiation.
Penn State researchers assessed the effects of changing climate conditions on agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, water resources, forestry, energy and human health in the 2015 Pennsylvania Climate Impact Assessment Update. Researchers also made recommendations to help Pennsylvanians prepare and respond.
Come to learn about the snowiest, rainiest and warmest years on record from Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz, chief meteorologist on Philadelphia’s NBC10, and Jon Nese, former on-air storm analyst at The Weather Channel and current Penn State faculty member in the meteorology department, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, during Penn State Brandywine’s 2015 Spring Speaker Series.
Another winter storm — hopefully the last for this season — is predicted to hit the Commonwealth, bringing with it snow accumulations that will vary across the state, according to National Weather Service. Snow is expected to start late tonight (March 19) and continue through Friday (March 20). Snow on roads may cause hazardous travel conditions. Some locations in eastern Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey could see accumulations of 3-6 inches, according to the forecast.
Each year, Penn State Brandywine welcomes a number of distinguished speakers to campus, and this year is no exception. Brandywine will host four speakers who will discuss a variety of topics including the ever-changing weather of the Philadelphia region, foreign affairs, how science and art mix, and geometric patterns found in nature.
