The last couple of months have been busy with both the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meetings! At both AGU and AMS, I presented multiple talks ranging from validating of radar quantitative precipitation estimates in the cool season, evaluating of different snow-to-liquid ratios for winter storms in the Northeast United States, and establishing a baseline evaluation for NASA’s radiation and microphysics parameterizations for mid-latitude winter storms.

Beyond presenting, I had the opportunity to connect with colleagues, both new and old; at AMS, I also had the opportunity to serve as a session chair for the session entitled Extreme Events, Grid Operations, and Outage Prediction.

Looking forward to 2026, both the work on snow-to-liquid ratios and radar quantitative precipitation estimates are under review for publication, so look out for those! Also, work will continue on the NASA FINESST funded research to examine some of the biases found in our initial results, which aim to improve the ice species representation within the NASA microphysics scheme.