2025 Southern New England Weather Conference

An Annual One-Day Community Event Exploring Regional Weather and Climate

For 25 years, the Southern New England Weather Conference has provided a place for weather enthusiasts, professionals, students, and teachers alike to gather and share their interests, knowledge, and expertise on a wide range of topics relating to regional weather and climate. Whether you are a seasoned professional or have just a casual interest, the Southern New England Weather Conference will excite you with content that affects New Englanders’ daily lives, including winter weather forecasting, extreme weather, hurricanes, local climate, emergency preparedness, and much more. More details about the Conference and how to register will be provided below as the meeting approaches. 

Save the Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025

Location: Meditech, Canton, MA

Format: In-person only

Registration is Open: Visit our page on Eventbrite to register today!

Agenda: Coming Soon!

2025 Weather Conference Call for Presenters:

The presentation request period for the 2025 conference has closed. No further oral presentations are requested for this year’s conference.

There will also be a poster session (with a limit of ten) at the Conference this year. If you are interested in presenting a poster on your work, please submit your request using this form by August 25.

2024 Weather Conference Highlights:


Announcing Our 2025 MC: Cindy Fitzgibbon, WCVB Chief Meteorologist

Cindy Fitzgibbon is the chief meteorologist for WCVB StormTeam 5, overseeing the station’s weather coverage and leading Channel 5’s talented team of meteorologists. An expert and award-winning meteorologist with more than 25 years of experience, 20 of them reporting weather in the Boston market, Cindy has been helping people start their day as StormTeam 5’s EyeOpener and Midday meteorologist for nearly a decade.

Cindy is also the principal meteorologist for WCVB’s “Forecasting Our Future” special ongoing coverage. This important initiative, launched by WCVB parent company Hearst Television, addresses issues Americans face in navigating changing weather patterns and their impact on local communities and economies.

Prior to joining WCVB in 2013, Cindy was delivering her morning forecast at Boston’s WFXT. Before that, she spent time learning tropical meteorology at WBBH in Fort Myers, Florida and forecasting snowstorms at WPTZ, the Hearst NBC affiliate in Burlington, Vermont. Cindy started her meteorology career at KXMB in Bismarck, North Dakota.

We are excited to have Cindy as our emcee at the conference this year!

Resources

Conference Registration

Conference Agenda – Coming Soon!

  Presenter List

 

  • Dr. Louis Uccellini, Keynote Speaker
    Global Expert in Meteorology and U.S. Storms; National Weather Service Director, 2013-2022
    Title: “Can Building a “Weather Ready Nation” Prepare us for Attaining a Climate-Resilient Nation?”

  • Keith L. Seitter
    Executive Director Emeritus and Senior Policy Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
    Title: “The Shifting Roles in the American Weather Enterprise”

  • David Vallee
    NOAA/NWS Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center
    Title: “Implementation of Forecast Flood Inundation Mapping Services for the Nation”

  • Ben Frechette and Marissa Vigevani
    Meteorologists, NBC5-WPTZ in Burlington, VT
    Title: “Leveraging Programming to Make Data-Driven Weather Graphics”

  • Bob Chen
    Professor, School for the Environment, UMass Boston
    Title: “Effective Strategies to Communicate Weather and Climate to All”

  • Ashley Williamson Rodriguez
    Meteorologist, The Weather Company
    Title: “Using AI Generated Fronts to Improve Forecasting Efficiency”

  • Alice Bradley
    Associate Professor of Geosciences, Williams College
    Title: “A Modern Approach to Old Data: Rebuilding a 210-Year Climate Record”

  • Sean Ernst
    Research Scientist, Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, University of Oklahoma
    Title: “How Do Weather Risk Communicators Produce Effective Messages that Reach the Audiences that Need to Hear Them?”

  • Rebecca Shoer and Liana Greenberg-Nielsen
    Senior Program Manager for Education and Engagement, and Education and Engagement Program Coordinator, Stone Living Lab
    Title: “Exploring Boston Harbor through Real-time Monitoring Data”

  • Dr. Lauriana Gaudet
    Staff Applied Meteorological Scientist, The Weather Company
    Title: “How The Weather Company is Leveraging AI to Enhance Weather Forecasting Capabilities”

  • Gwyneth E. Packard
    Senior Engineer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Title: “Our Hidden Ocean: The Shifting Dynamics of Currents, Weather, and Technology”

  • Brian Fitzgerald
    Director of Education, Mount Washington Observatory
    Title: “Local and Global Precipitation Tracking”

 

Blue Hill Observatory

Contact Us

Date/Location

Date/Time: 25 October 2025, 8 AM to 5 PM
Loction: Meditech, 7 Blue Hill River Road, Canton, MA

 

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Poster Session

There will be a poster session (up to ten) at the Conference this year. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please submit your request to us using this form by August 25.

Meals

Lunch is included in the conference fee and will be provided on site.

Past Conference Archive

The Southern New England Weather Conference has been held nearly annually since the first meeting in 2000. Please click here to visit our partial archive of past conference materials including agendas, abstracts, and presentations. We will add additional materials from previous conferences as they become available.

The Southern New England Weather Conference is a non-profit venture that is sponsored annually by the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center.