Andrea Lopez Lang
@alopezlang.bsky.social
Atmospheric science professor studying synoptic to large-scale dynamics of extreme weather on timescales of days to a season @ UW-Madison
It’s always great to chat about the stratosphere. The last major sudden stratospheric warming event to occur in November was in 1968! We might do it again this year. We’ve had a few minor events in since then (e.g., 1996, 2000, 2009, 2016) and they hint at an active wintery December!
An unusually early sudden stratospheric warming event is likely to send the polar vortex on the move. Questions exist re: how this will affect US weather, but odds for colder, snowier weather are ticking up esp. in Central/Eastern US www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w...
The polar vortex is about to bring a wild weather pattern change | CNN
Over the next 10 days, scientists say, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather patterns and set the stage for a cold, snowy December across parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s always great to chat about the stratosphere. The last major sudden stratospheric warming event to occur in November was in 1968! We might do it again this year. We’ve had a few minor events in since then (e.g., 1996, 2000, 2009, 2016) and they hint at an active wintery December!
From the top of the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences building @uwmadison.bsky.social you can get a sense of how great the aurora was last night. This is the west view (not north!) youtu.be/V10uZNIuSCU
Thanks @uwmad-aos.bsky.social & @pth1.bsky.social for sharing the video!
Thanks @uwmad-aos.bsky.social & @pth1.bsky.social for sharing the video!
2025 November 11 - Aurora - West View
YouTube video by AOSSRooftopCameras
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November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
From the top of the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences building @uwmadison.bsky.social you can get a sense of how great the aurora was last night. This is the west view (not north!) youtu.be/V10uZNIuSCU
Thanks @uwmad-aos.bsky.social & @pth1.bsky.social for sharing the video!
Thanks @uwmad-aos.bsky.social & @pth1.bsky.social for sharing the video!
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Here's a loop of the 1-minute mesoscale visible imagery of Hurricane Melissa from roughly 18 UTC Oct 24 through 15 UTC Oct 29. These are not remapped, so the image jumps when the meso sector moves, usually around 18 UTC each day.
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
Hurricane Melissa - 1 minute visible imagery from 18 UTC Oct 24, 2025 through 15 UTC Oct 29, 2025
YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison
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October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Here's a loop of the 1-minute mesoscale visible imagery of Hurricane Melissa from roughly 18 UTC Oct 24 through 15 UTC Oct 29. These are not remapped, so the image jumps when the meso sector moves, usually around 18 UTC each day.
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
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Fill the Hill and the flamingos are back! Be part of the feathered fun Oct 9–10, and support AOS at go.wisc.edu/5348a6. Gifts go to our discretionary fund and are used in impactful ways, helping students gain research experience and attend academic conferences.
Will you join our AOS flock?
Will you join our AOS flock?
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - Fill The Hill
Since 1948, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) has been at the forefront of weather, climate, and ocean science, with nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate programs. O...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Fill the Hill and the flamingos are back! Be part of the feathered fun Oct 9–10, and support AOS at go.wisc.edu/5348a6. Gifts go to our discretionary fund and are used in impactful ways, helping students gain research experience and attend academic conferences.
Will you join our AOS flock?
Will you join our AOS flock?
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We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza
Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.
www.macfound.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
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#HispanicHeritageMonth Spotlight: Andrea Lopez Lang @alopezlang.bsky.social is a professor at @uwmad-aos.bsky.social.
She served as AMS Councilor, chair of the Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.
She served as AMS Councilor, chair of the Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#HispanicHeritageMonth Spotlight: Andrea Lopez Lang @alopezlang.bsky.social is a professor at @uwmad-aos.bsky.social.
She served as AMS Councilor, chair of the Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.
She served as AMS Councilor, chair of the Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.
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We’re thrilled to welcome Bee Leung to our faculty! A cloud physicist and mesoscale meteorologist by training, her research looks at the physical processes driving land-aerosol-cloud interactions. Learn more about Bee in our Q&A: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q-a_wel...
September 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome Bee Leung to our faculty! A cloud physicist and mesoscale meteorologist by training, her research looks at the physical processes driving land-aerosol-cloud interactions. Learn more about Bee in our Q&A: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q-a_wel...
Congratulation Elena!
She’s doing awesome work to assess sources of subseasonal prediction skill in our research group!
wpo.noaa.gov/wpo-ucar-cpa...
She’s doing awesome work to assess sources of subseasonal prediction skill in our research group!
wpo.noaa.gov/wpo-ucar-cpa...
Welcome WPO Innovation for Next Generation Scientists (WINGS) Fellowship 2025–2027 Class - NOAA Weather Program Office
The program enables Fellows to gain insights into their fields of study, supports their integration into the workforce, and offers an opportunity to contribute to forecast model development.
wpo.noaa.gov
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congratulation Elena!
She’s doing awesome work to assess sources of subseasonal prediction skill in our research group!
wpo.noaa.gov/wpo-ucar-cpa...
She’s doing awesome work to assess sources of subseasonal prediction skill in our research group!
wpo.noaa.gov/wpo-ucar-cpa...
Confirmed severe hail for Fitchburg!
May 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Confirmed severe hail for Fitchburg!
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Join our team! We're seeking lecturers to teach AOS 100: Weather and Climate, and AOS 102: Climate and Climate Change during the Fall 2025 semester.
More information and application details can be found in the job postings.
AOS 100: go.wisc.edu/13us81
AOS 102: go.wisc.edu/g48zzv
More information and application details can be found in the job postings.
AOS 100: go.wisc.edu/13us81
AOS 102: go.wisc.edu/g48zzv
May 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Join our team! We're seeking lecturers to teach AOS 100: Weather and Climate, and AOS 102: Climate and Climate Change during the Fall 2025 semester.
More information and application details can be found in the job postings.
AOS 100: go.wisc.edu/13us81
AOS 102: go.wisc.edu/g48zzv
More information and application details can be found in the job postings.
AOS 100: go.wisc.edu/13us81
AOS 102: go.wisc.edu/g48zzv
📢 The 2025 @ametsoc.org Washington Forum & Summer Community Meeting on weather, water, & climate enterprise policy & community is ~2 weeks away📢
Keynotes: Marcia McNutt (@nasonline.org President), Craig McLean (Former NOAA Asst. Administrator) & a Congressional Rep.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/meetings...
Keynotes: Marcia McNutt (@nasonline.org President), Craig McLean (Former NOAA Asst. Administrator) & a Congressional Rep.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/meetings...
2025 Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
www.ametsoc.org
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
📢 The 2025 @ametsoc.org Washington Forum & Summer Community Meeting on weather, water, & climate enterprise policy & community is ~2 weeks away📢
Keynotes: Marcia McNutt (@nasonline.org President), Craig McLean (Former NOAA Asst. Administrator) & a Congressional Rep.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/meetings...
Keynotes: Marcia McNutt (@nasonline.org President), Craig McLean (Former NOAA Asst. Administrator) & a Congressional Rep.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/meetings...
One of the motivations for NOAA’s (a Department of Commerce agency) creation of this list was to quantify the economic importance of weather and climate information for the US. It is widely used to support further investments in weather and climate operations and science at the federal level. 🧐
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
One of the motivations for NOAA’s (a Department of Commerce agency) creation of this list was to quantify the economic importance of weather and climate information for the US. It is widely used to support further investments in weather and climate operations and science at the federal level. 🧐
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UW–Madison is the birthplace of satellite meteorology, and that legacy of innovative research continues today, helping keep people and communities safe.
news.wisc.edu/beyond-the-w...
news.wisc.edu/beyond-the-w...
Beyond the weather forecast: 5 ways UW satellite technology helps save lives
The University of Wisconsin–Madison may be the birthplace of satellite meteorology, but scientists on campus have never stopped developing new ways for space-based instruments to protect and improve t
news.wisc.edu
May 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
UW–Madison is the birthplace of satellite meteorology, and that legacy of innovative research continues today, helping keep people and communities safe.
news.wisc.edu/beyond-the-w...
news.wisc.edu/beyond-the-w...
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2nd Call: @justinminder.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc to perform research on the characteristics and predictability of rainfall events over the Catskill mountains that impact the NYC water supply. Application deadline is this Friday 5/9. www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/tan...
www.atmos.albany.edu
May 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
2nd Call: @justinminder.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc to perform research on the characteristics and predictability of rainfall events over the Catskill mountains that impact the NYC water supply. Application deadline is this Friday 5/9. www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/tan...
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AOS Professor Dan Vimont spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio about the repercussions of cuts impacting the National Climate Assessment.
How cuts impacting a federal climate report could affect Wisconsin’s disaster preparedness
“Thermometers don’t care who’s in office,” said Dan Vimont, a professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “By undercutting our ability to monitor and assess t...
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April 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
AOS Professor Dan Vimont spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio about the repercussions of cuts impacting the National Climate Assessment.
The plan “…eliminates NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes…one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without…” www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
www.ametsoc.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The plan “…eliminates NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes…one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without…” www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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It's #DayoftheBadger! This year, we need our AOS community to step up more than ever. Gifts help secure student internships, research experience, and career development opportunities that are essential for student success in a world where those opportunities have become scarcer: go.wisc.edu/3eyg67
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | Day of the Badger
Since 1948, The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) has been at the forefront of weather and climate science, with nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate programs. Our facul...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's #DayoftheBadger! This year, we need our AOS community to step up more than ever. Gifts help secure student internships, research experience, and career development opportunities that are essential for student success in a world where those opportunities have become scarcer: go.wisc.edu/3eyg67
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In a new statement, the Board of Directors of the Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ) expresses deep concern over recent and ongoing rapid reductions in scientific research and academic capabilities in the U.S., particularly in meteorology and the atmospheric sciences.
Read more: bit.ly/4hRP6an
Read more: bit.ly/4hRP6an
The Board of Directors of the Meteorological Society of Japan issues a statement on recent reduction in capabilities in meteorology and atmospheric science in the United States
The members of the Board of Directors of the Meteorolog
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March 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In a new statement, the Board of Directors of the Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ) expresses deep concern over recent and ongoing rapid reductions in scientific research and academic capabilities in the U.S., particularly in meteorology and the atmospheric sciences.
Read more: bit.ly/4hRP6an
Read more: bit.ly/4hRP6an
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It's not something you hear often from the very people that spend their lives predicting disaster.
Meteorologists to weather a storm of mass NOAA layoffs
MADISON, Wis. -- It's not something you hear often from the very people that spend their lives predicting disaster.
www.channel3000.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's not something you hear often from the very people that spend their lives predicting disaster.
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Statement: U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk, with wide-ranging consequences for public safety and the economy. The AMS urges strong support for NOAA & other federal scientific agencies working in weather and climate.
Read the rest of our latest statement: bit.ly/3DhfegUI
Read the rest of our latest statement: bit.ly/3DhfegUI
March 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Statement: U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk, with wide-ranging consequences for public safety and the economy. The AMS urges strong support for NOAA & other federal scientific agencies working in weather and climate.
Read the rest of our latest statement: bit.ly/3DhfegUI
Read the rest of our latest statement: bit.ly/3DhfegUI
The forecast, data, model development, science, communication coordination and all the work that occurs because of NOAA’s activities not only saves lives but the work of NOAA also impacts nearly every sector of the economy. Life, business, & economic decisions can be made because NOAA exists.
February 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The forecast, data, model development, science, communication coordination and all the work that occurs because of NOAA’s activities not only saves lives but the work of NOAA also impacts nearly every sector of the economy. Life, business, & economic decisions can be made because NOAA exists.
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The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
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Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in Terrestrial Ice and Water Systems
We are looking to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) at the University at Albany.
We are looking to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) at the University at Albany.
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in Terrestrial Ice and Water Systems
We are looking to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) at the University at Albany.
We are looking to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) at the University at Albany.
I was part of the 2018 cohort! It was an amazing learning opportunity, great networking, and really friendship building, experience. It also provided a great new perspective, for me at the time, on the wide ranging careers in the weather, water, and climate space. You should apply! #cake
⏰Applications for the AMS Early Career Leadership Academy (ECLA) are open until 27 January! ECLA brings together early-career individuals to develop leadership skills and create a network of peer learners.
Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/3JA1XAT #AMSECLA25
Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/3JA1XAT #AMSECLA25
January 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I was part of the 2018 cohort! It was an amazing learning opportunity, great networking, and really friendship building, experience. It also provided a great new perspective, for me at the time, on the wide ranging careers in the weather, water, and climate space. You should apply! #cake