👏 CONGRATULATIONS to all of the spring 2025 scholarship recipients this year! 📺 Sadie Morris is the winner of the 2025 NWA Foundation Broadcast Scholarship! 🏆 To read more about our spring 2025 scholarship winners click here: nwas.org/congratulati...

Join us this Wednesday, September 24 at 11 AM Eastern for our NWA Webinar Series where we’ll be discussing weather awareness in the aviation community! Members: Check the Member Portal for the registration link to join!

The @nwas.org and @iaem-org.bsky.social are united in safeguarding communities from weather-driven disasters. Today, we are making a joint statement to reaffirm our commitment—to our mission and to those who depend on us. The full statement is available here: nwas.org/nwa-iaem-joi...

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 National Weather Association Awards! #NWAS25 Congratulations to all of our award recipients, and thank you for your significant contributions to the National Weather Association and the weather enterprise!

Our 2025 @nwas.org Annual Meeting would not be possible without our amazing sponsors: Baron Weather, Factor110, The Weather Company, and the Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau! Thank you for your generous contributions and for supporting the Annual Meeting! #NWAS25

Last up in our final session is Kaylie Bonifer with "A Deeper Look at How Stakeholder Communicate Winter Road Hazards" #NWAS25

Our next speaker in the Social Science/Communication/Remote Sensing Session is Elise Schultz with "Developing a Family-Centric Weather Community: A Grassroots Effort to Serve our Local Families" #NWAS25

Next up in our final session we have Pat Spoden with "How Should I feel (When things go wrong).

Our final session of #NWAS25 is underway! The first speaker in the Social Science/Communication/Remote Sensing Session is Apoorva Bajaj discussing "Supplemental Gap-filling Weather Radar Network in the United States: Where We're Headed"

Our Showcase Sessions featured some great interactive displays and visuals in addition to posters that garnered lots of attention! The Showcase Session is a great way to bring your science to life, flex your creative muscle, and have in-depth conversations and connections! #NWAS25

Totally blown away. Being named NWA Member of the Year for the second time is an incredible honor, and I'm thrilled to share the recognition with the creative minds behind the NWA Roadmap. I love the @nwas.org. It has given me so much more than I have put in. What a great group.

Our final speaker this morning in the Drought/Aviation/Observations Session is Thomas Schwent with "The Indispensable Role of the National Weather Service in Safeguarding American Lives and Property" #NWAS25

Our next speaker in the Drought/Aviation/Observations Session is Jonathan Case with "Update on NASA SPoRT-LIS and Transition to NLDAS-3: Expansion of User Applications" #NWAS25

Next up is John Knox discussing "Fifty Years of Progress in Understanding Clear-Air Turbulence in Relation to Weather and Climate" #NWAS25

Our next speaker is Brooke Lynn with "Design of a High Altitude Ballooning Payload To Sample Lightning Generated Nitrogen Oxides" #NWAS25

First up in our Wednesday Session on Drought/Aviation/Observations is Chad Merrill discussing "Central Appalachian Drought Recognition Patterns" #NWAS25

Our final speaker during the Fire Weather/Heat/Drought Session is Paul Iniguez with "Creating a Probabilistic HeatRisk Service" #NWAS25

Next up in the Fire Weather/Heat/Drought Session is Matt Beitscher "Looking Back to Look Ahead: Systematically Identifying Southern Great Plains Wildfire Outbreaks" #NWAS25

Our next speaker in the Fire Weather/Heat/Drought Session is Bethany Palmer with "Building a Climatology of Kansas Wildfires" #NWAS25

Next up is Elizabeth Marold discussing "Innovations in Cross-Sector Collaboration: A Case Study of the March 14 Oklahoma Wildfire Outbreak" #NWAS25

Our next speaker in the Fire Weather/Heat/Drough Session is Sydney Lybrand with "Blaze or Haze: A Look into Contrasting Lightning-Initiated Wildfire Events" #NWAS25

Good morning on our final day of #NWAS25! Our morning Fire Weather/Heat/Drought Session kicks off with Ryan Wade discussing "Ground-Based and Airborne Observations during the 2025 NASA FireSense Prescribed Burn Field Projects"

The @nwas.org is headed to Toyota Field for the Rocket City Trash Pandas STEM Night! Stop by our booth from 5:30-6:30 PM Central! ⚾️ #NWAS25

Our final speaker in the IDSS/Messaging Session is Dr. Susan Jasko presenting "Tell Me A Story: Using Narrative Techniques to Translate Expertise Into Usable Intelligence" #NWAS25

Next up in the IDSS/Messaging Session is Rachael Kaye with "Hurricane Heroes: Increasing Meteorology Students' Self-Efficacy through Immersive Learning" #NWAS25

Our next speaker in the IDSS/Messaging Session is Rob Howlett discussing "IDSS Engine: The Future of Targeted Decision Support Services" #NWAS25

Our Tuesday of #NWAS25 wraps up with the IDSS/Messaging Session, and our first speaker is Ashley Morris presenting "Butterfly Wings to Typhoons Predicting and Navigating Change in Emergency Management WX Support"

Our Tuesday program of #NWAS25 features a Master Class on Communicating Multiple Hazards Associated with Landfalling Hurricanes hosted by the @nwas.org Weather Analysis and Forecasting Committee!

Thank You to our Gold Level Sponsor: Factor110! We appreciate your contributions to help make the 2025 @nwas.org Annual Meeting possible! #NWAS25

The 10th Anniversary Research Operations Nexus (RON) Meetup (our RONiversary!) is underway at #NWAS25! This event is all about connections and collaboration!

The final presentation during our AI Visualization and RON History Session is "10 Years of RON: Celebrating a Decade of R2O/O2R Collaborations" by Alyssa Bates! #NWAS25

Moving forward in our AI Visualization and Research Operations Nexus (RON) history session with Jeffrey Huffman talking about "Reimagining Weather Data for GIS Applications and Cross-Sector Efficacy". #NWAS25

Next up in the AI Visualization and RON History Session is Kevin Thiel "Demonstrating Experimental Satellite Products in the 2025 Hazardous Weather Testbed"! #NWAS25

Next up in our AI Visualization session is Andrew White assessing the addition of hourly stream gauge forecasts in the NASA SPoRT streamflow AI-project.

Kicking off the AI Visualization and Research Operations Nexus (RON) History Session is Michael Farrar with "Enhancing the Forecasting Experience: Integration of Real-Time Generative AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Techniques"! #NWAS25

Our final presentation during the Tuesday Tropical Meteorology Session is John Mayhall with "Identifying Transverse Cirrus Bands in Tropical Cyclones using a Convolutional Neural Network"! #NWAS25

Our next presentation in the Tropical Meteorology Session is Westin Boyd discussing "Developing an Artificial Intelligence–Based Forecast Model for Hurricane-Induced Power Outages"! #NWAS25

The first presentation in our Tuesday Tropical Meteorology Session is Kiahna Mollette with "GOES GLM Optical Energy and Inner-Core Convection in Intensifying Atlantic Tropical Cyclones"! #NWAS25

Leading off the second day of #NWAS25 is our Tuesday Keynote Speaker, Tom Hamill with The Weather Company discussing "The Evolution of Deep Learning and Its Applications to Numerical Weather Prediction"!

Thank You to our Gold Level Lanyard Sponsor: Baron Weather! We appreciate your contributions to help make the 2025 @nwas.org Annual Meeting possible! #NWAS25

Our final speaker on Day 1 of our 50th Anniversary Meeting is Matt Saldaña with "Building Resilience: A Cross-Sector Workshop to Better Prepare Communities for Extreme Weather". #NWAS25

Our penultimate talk during the Severe Storms Session is "Building Resilience: A Cross-Sector Workshop to Better Prepare Communities for Extreme Weather" with Lance Wood #NWAS25

The next speaker at #NWAS25 is Sarah Stough talking about unified lightning data and its use in an operational setting.

The Severe Storms Session continues with Ryan Tatasciore "Utilizing Radar and Environmental Variables to Classify Downbursts using Outflow Boundary Speed" #NWAS25

Our next speaker is Kevin Knupp from UAH (University of Alabama - Huntsville) talking about impacts from stratocumulus on a nighttime QLCS event. #NWAS25

Our next presentation in the Severe Storms Session is Meredith Bean with "A Study on the Nocturnal Evolution during PERiLS 2023 IOP3's Supercells to QLCS Development" #NWAS25

Up next in our afternoon Severe Storms session is Alexis Peshehonoff, Bernard Muich, and Makaylei Huggins from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with Project G.L.E.N. #NWAS25

Our Monday Afternoon Severe Storms Session begins with Josh Wurman discussing "Tornadic Supercell Structures, BEST Tornado Study, Extended Tornado Climatologies" #NWAS25

Up next in our session on Hurricane Helene is Jessica Stumpf with "Enhancing Emergency Management with Weather Data: Inland Insights from Helene". #NWAS25

Next in our Hurricane Helene special session is Jared Rennie with a meteorological, climatological and emotional review of Helene in southern Appalachia. #nwas25