Today we honored Prof. Jen Kay from CU Boulder as our 2025-2026 Distinguished Richard P. And Linda S. Turco Lecturer

Just found out the awesome team at @climasillinois.bsky.social will be in Asheville in the next couple of days to conduct interviews about Risk Communication during #Helene. If you live in the area and are willing to chat, feel free to reach out to them! They are an awesome group! #NCwx

Faculty, students, alums - we’ve launched a new CliMAS merch store. Show your CliMAS pride wherever you are. Check it out! go.illinois.edu/climas-merch-2025

Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨 Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs. RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....

Check out this promo video promoting our College, featuring Assistant Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón and many of our students! youtu.be/ZRgExF7r1gE?...

Today, CliMAS welcomed Prof. Dan Vimont from University of Wisconsin-Madison AOS for our weekly colloquium, who discussed aerosol-related and oceanic climate dynamics

The annual CliMAS graduate student – faculty volleyball match was a ton of fun! The faculty are happy to report their clean sweep victory, the broken golden rawinsonde trophy will be on the 3rd floor of NHB. Looking forward to next year’s match!

Today we welcomed Scott Collis from Argonne National Laboratory for our weekly colloquium

Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!

Hey Illini - if you’re looking for a Gen Ed, there’s a 100% chance you’ll love ours. ☀️ Check out ATMS 100, 120, and 140!

CliMAS Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón was featured in @BBCWorld on the importance of trust and communication during extreme weather events. Read the article: bbc.com/future/artic...

CliMAS is proud to partner with Illinois Public Media to create a new podcast called Weather Realness - we’ll get real about the what’s and why’s about weather and climate and how it impacts you. Our first episode airs on WILL-AM 580 at 11 am this Saturday, August 2 and anytime on the WILL app.

25 years ago, Larry Di Girolamo watched a satellite launch carrying the MISR Instrument that he had helped build. Now, MISR is ending with a discovery that could change how we understand global weather: the jet stream is shifting and speeding up. Link: climas.illinois.edu/news/2025-07...

Incoming Assistant Professor @latinwx.bsky.social quoted in this article discussing weather risk and resilience in light of the Texas floods www.huffpost.com/entry/flood-...

Our second storm trip is back from the Plains and they saw the goods! Hear their storm observation stories in 1071 NHB on Friday, June 27 at 9:30 am

Today our undergrads measured outflow wind speeds and observed both a squall line and discrete supercell along the Texas-Oklahoma border! Tomorrow marks the final day of our May field course, then it's back home to Urbana 🏠

Yesterday marked the halfway point for our May Field Studies of Convection course! Students observed a tornado-warned supercell (and lots of blowing dust) south of Brownfield, TX.

Today marked the beginning of our Field Studies of Convection course! Our undergraduate students traveled from Urbana to Colorado where they observed a supercell at sunset as well as a brief tornado

CliMAS congratulates the Class of 2025!

The UIUC School of Earth, Society and the Environment (SESE) is hosting our annual summer enrichment camp for middle schoolers again this summer! The dates are July 21st and 22nd and the camp is free! Registration is now open and you can sign up here: earth.illinois.edu/resources/ea...

The UIUC School of Earth, Society and the Environment (SESE) is hosting our annual summer enrichment camp for middle schoolers again this summer! The dates are July 21st and 22nd and the camp is free! Registration is now open and you can sign up here: earth.illinois.edu/resources/ea...

Congratulations to assistant professor @rshivpriyam.bsky.social on receiving the prestigious 2024 ACP Paul Crutzen Publication Award! His award-winning paper focuses on short-term climate variability. Read more: climas.illinois.edu/news/2025-05...

Good morning from Morris, Illinois! Students and faculty are supporting Intensive Observing Period #1 of the CROCUS Urban Flooding Campaign.

We celebrated excellence this week in CliMAS during our annual Yoshi Ogura Banquet. Undergraduate and Graduate Student and Faculty honors were followed by a lecture by former Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel. 📸 CliMAS Major Alyssa Shih

Today, we welcomed Prof. Adam Sobel from Columbia University as our Distinguished Ogura Lecturer. He spoke on climate risk science.

Congratulations to Kaitlyn Jesmonth (@wxkaitlynj.bsky.social) on the successful completion of her MS Defense, which examined the effects of terrain on precipitation type in a Northeast US winter storm. Kaitlyn is advised by Prof. Steve Nesbitt (@70dbz.bsky.social).

We’re excited to share that Dr. Joseph Trujillo-Falcón will join our regular faculty as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025! He’ll continue his work on effective risk communication in weather and climate.

Congratulations to two of our undergraduates who were awarded and honored in the recent National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship competition!

“When we have these very heavy rain events, the trends have been pointing toward those heavy events getting heavier,” said Deanna Hence, an associate professor of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/c...

Final plot from our 21:30z sonde launch. Some decent 0-1 km shear. Plot courtesy @ewolffwx.bsky.social

Alyssa Shih, junior in CliMAS, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She was one of 4 selected campus wide and one of less than 500 nationwide. Big congratulations to her!

Graduate Student Kaitlyn Jesmonth (@wxkaitlynj.bsky.social) was interviewed in the Washington Post about some clouds she observed in Champaign www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

From @stormchasernick.bsky.social

NWS LINCOLN IL: If KILX radar goes down they have no ET/ESA to fix it due to hiring freeze and job cuts. ~ A meteorologist there.

An open letter to our fellow meteorologists and climate scientists from our Department Head, Steve Nesbitt

Prof. Jeff Frame discusses the importance of the National Weather Service and impacts of potential cuts www.wcia.com/news/champai...

Q&A with one of our alums: Dr. Annareli Morales las.illinois.edu/news/2025-02...

Today, we welcomed Christina McCluskey from NSF NCAR, who talked about her research on improving our understanding of ice nucleation in mixed phase clouds

Research by CliMAS Asst. Prof. Gan Zhang reveals potential "stilling" over Europe that could impact wind energy generation finance.yahoo.com/news/global-...

We’ve got a good crowd at the #ams2025 Career Fair. Come by and say hi to the block I!

CliMAS Reception at #ams2025: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 7:00-9:00 p.m. Hilton New Orleans Riverside, St. Charles Room (3rd Floor) 2 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Come meet with faculty, students, and your fellow alumni!

Don Wuebbles, a professor emeritus of @climasuiuc.bsky.social who has worked on all five of the previous National Climate Assessments, says the new administration's push to include more diverse voices on climate is in fact cover to bring in “more biased” ones. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Check out Prof. Sonia Lasher-Trapp’s new introductory cloud physics book. Learn more: sundogpublishing.com/products/mos...

Dr. Joseph Trujillo-Falcon quoted in this NPR piece on the impacts of weather disasters on undocumented communities www.npr.org/2024/12/23/n...

Interested in graduate studies in weather and climate? We’re accepting on campus MS and PhD applications for Fall 2025 until January 5. Contact potential advisors listed below for more information!

Congrats to Adam Bauer, and Cristi too! 🍾

🚨Calling all prospective graduate students! We will be hosting a webinar on Nov. 7 at 7 pm CT, where you can hear from current students and meet potential faculty advisors. Sign up here to register before Friday, 1 November: forms.gle/9ZqgAJwpBuBnXm…

Meet new CliMAS Assistant Professor Priyam Raghuraman. “I hope to accomplish better predictions of the fate of our climate. My teaching interests are on similar topics: climate change, atmospheric radiation, and climate and clouds.” Read more: climas.illinois.edu/news/2024-09...

This Front Page Blog from @ametsoc.bsky.social features 2 current (Alicia Klees and Joseph Trujillo) and 1 future (Christopher Wirz) Illini addressing the societal impacts of severe weather!