Alan Sealls is an AMS Fellow, and CBM, retired in January 2024 from a 37-year career in broadcast meteorology. He most recently was Chief Meteorologist at WPMI-TV in Mobile. He is a sixteen-time regional Emmy winner who went viral on YouTube for his 2017 coverage of Hurricane Irma, with Reddit users proclaiming him “best weatherman ever!” The AMS awarded Alan with the Award for Excellence in Science Reporting for a three-part series he produced on climate change in 2009. He received the AMS Award for Broadcast Meteorology in 2019. His meteorology degrees are a B.S. from Cornell, and an M.S. from FSU.

Alan continues as an adjunct professor, teaching weather broadcasting at the University of South Alabama, each spring. Outside of his TV career, he has taught at the college level for 30 years. He is a member of the Cornell University Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Advisory Council. Alan was the 2018 President of the National Weather Association (NWA). He has served as both a Councilor and a Board Chair for both the AMS and the NWA. He was AMS Chicago Chapter President in 1998, and he was AMS Board Chair for the Broadcast Seal in 2010. From 2018-2021, Alan served on the AMS Fellows Selection Committee.

Alan Sealls is a guest lecturer on college campuses, and an invited presenter and panelist for weather and journalism conventions. He writes a weather column for Lagniappe Newspaper, and serves as a weather consultant and expert witness. Alan has authored three weather-themed books and produced over 100 weather videos used domestically and internationally by k-12 educators. Over the course of his career, he has visited more than 800 schools, promoting science and education, while sharing his love for weather.