Jim Woolsey is a Board Member with WeatherBELL Analytics, LLC. D'Aleo was elected a Councilor for the AMS, the first private sector meteorologist to be elected by his peers for that role. He has served as a member and then chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and has co-chaired national conferences for both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. D'Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
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D'Aleo has also published numerous peer-reviewed papers and books and made numerous presentations focused on seasonal forecasts and their impacts on agriculture, energy, and industry to conferences for government, professional societies, and industries in the U.S., Brazil, Canada and China. He has authored a resource guide on El Niño and La Niña and papers on how research into ENSO and atmospheric, oceanic and solar oscillations have made skillful seasonal forecasts possible. D'Aleo was a college professor and chaired the Meteorology program at Lyndon State College. He was a partner and Chief Meteorologist at a hedge fund trading energy and agriculture before joining WeatherBell at its founding. He has over 45 years experience in professional meteorology, previously Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and the WSI website. D'Aleo was a co-founder and the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel. He continues to research how sea surface temperatures, global oscillations, soil moisture and solar cycles influence seasonal weather. Joseph D’Aleo has been co-chief Meteorologist of WeatherBell since the company started in 2011, is a major contributor to WeatherBell Premium and serves WeatherBell Commercial and WeatherBell Premium Agriculture clients. Bastardi graduated from Pennsylvania State University and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology. His reputation for making bold and accurate forecasts has landed him on major television programs including Fox News Live, ABC World News, The O'Reilly Factor, The Colbert Report, CBS' The Early Show, Imus in the Morning, and several others. Bastardi built a large private client services business and honed his skills at applying his knowledge of the weather to various applications. During his 32 year tenure at Accuweather, Mr. Bastardi is well known for his WeatherBell Premium blog, featuring the popular videos "The Atmospheric Avenger," "The Raging WeatherBull†and "The Saturday Summaryâ€. Bastardi's analog approach, which finds similarities between current and historical weather patterns, allows him to make an accurate forecast, sometimes in defiance of computer model consensus. His exceptional skills are rooted in a comprehensive understanding of global oscillations and in-depth analysis of historical weather patterns.
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Many companies across a multitude of industries, including energy, winter maintenance and retail/supply chain, are profiting from his forecasts. Joe Bastardi is an institution in the science of weather prediction and is co-chief Meteorologist at WeatherBell, which he joined at the company’s founding.
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in Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University and is a member of the American Meteorological Society. He has been interviewed by various media as a weather expert, and has assisted in the production of various documentaries. Downs has been deposed and has appeared in court to testify as an expert in analyzing official weather records. He has provided hundreds of expert reports for a broad spectrum of legal and insurance cases in various state and federal jurisdictions and has been cited in multiple appellate court decisions. Downs continues to serve the legal and insurance communities, which he previously did for over 10 years while at Expert Weather Investigations and Weather 2000, Inc.
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In his capacity as Director of Forensic Meteorology, Mr. He also provides forecasting expertise and support to a wide variety of commercial-level clients. He has been with WeatherBell since January 2014, ensuring that all of the commercial forecasts are issued in a timely manner. Thomas Downs serves as Chief Operating Officer for WeatherBell Analytics.