Alan Sealls recently retired from his position as Chief Meteorologist at NBC15 in Mobile, after serving as Chief Meteorologist at WKRG-TV. Alan earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in meteorology, respectively, from Cornell, and from FSU. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and a Past President of the National Weather Association.

Alan teaches weather broadcasting at the University of South Alabama, each spring. He writes a bi-weekly weather column for Lagniappe Newspaper. He has written and produced more than 100 weather videos used by educators in multiple countries distributed by Discovery Education and Boclips. Alan has also authored three weather books. He serves as a consulting meteorologist and expert witness in legal cases, and performs weather safety training for businesses.

Before arriving in Mobile in 1999, Alan was a meteorologist at the NBC TV station in Chicago. Prior to that he spent 5 years at Chicago superstation WGN-TV. In Chicago, he taught meteorology at Columbia College. Before Chicago, Alan Sealls was a TV meteorologist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in Albany, Georgia. He’s originally from a suburb of New York City.

Alan is a sixteen-time Emmy winner, and winner of more than 20 other local, regional, state, and national awards for broadcast meteorology. He went viral on YouTube for coverage of Hurricane Irma, in 2017. Over his career, Alan visited more than 800 schools, reaching tens of thousands of kids. His career story as a meteorologist is featured in a children’s book Capturing the Sky: The True Story of How Alan Sealls Became the Best Weatherman Ever. Alan is also an accomplished weather photographer. His work and weather photos have been used in television, science research, and in college textbooks. He has captured the art and science of weather both in storm chasing, and in several flights with the U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters.