Category Archives: Energy

Make your Weather Forecasts Trade Actionable!

27 Nov, 2012 | 3
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Hey everyone, sorry it’s been a while since I last posted.   I promise to start writing more blog posts going forward.   I wanted to bring up a topic that I think needs to be in the minds of all younger generation (and maybe older) meteorologists.   Bottom line, I believe that weather forecasts [...]

What’s your Forecast for Summer 2012?

20 Mar, 2012 | 5
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It’s official.  Winter is over today and we will start astronomical Spring 2012 tomorrow on March 20th.   As many of you know, it’s been an unusual and very warm winter this year.  In fact, many of you folks in the Midwest/East probably felt like “Winter” never came.  For some folks out West…”Winter” finally came [...]

Let’s talk Energy Market Fundamentals Part 2

02 Mar, 2012 | 0
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In Part 1 of yesterday’s post, I discussed the energy market fundamentals of retail gas and Crude Oil.  Now, here’s my honest assessment of Natural Gas.   Natural Gas has been battered in this market.   Due to the Shale Gas revolution along with mild weather…NYMEX Natural Gas prompt month is trading near $2.53, up from it’s [...]

Let’s talk Energy Market Fundamentals Part 1

29 Feb, 2012 | 12
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With average gas prices hitting more than multi-year highs this week…I’d like to take a break from writing my career weather blog posts and spend some time giving ya’ll my honest assessment of the current energy market fundamentals impacting gas prices.  Today I’ll specifically discuss Retail Gas and Crude oil. According to the EIA, Retail [...]

Earth Networks is hosting an Energy Weather seminar!

22 Feb, 2012 | 2
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Earth Networks (formerly Weather Bug) is hosting their 7th Annual Energy Weather seminar in Houston, TX on Thursday April 12th, 2012.  The seminar will focus on the Summer and Hurricane outlook for 2012. This seminar from Earth Networks is a must visit for young professionals in Meteorology or for those mid career folks who are [...]

Another option to get on the energy trade floor!

06 Feb, 2012 | 8
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There is definitely a lot of interest brewing within the meteorology community on breaking into the energy meteorology space.  I probably receive a couple emails a week about this very topic.  Even when I was at the AMS, the energy sessions were packed with students and young professionals looking for ways to break in. Here’s [...]

A hydrologist as a career option for a meteorologist?

19 Jan, 2012 | 11
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  You bet…it’s definitely a possibility!  Hydrologists and meteorologists work very close together, especially in the energy world.  In my previous post, I discussed why hydrologists are very important for west power trading.   In today’s post, I thought I would offer a more detailed perspective about the option of working as a hydrologist (in lieu [...]

Energy Trade Floor Meteorology for West Power Trading

04 Jan, 2012 | 1
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In my previous post, I talked about the typical day of an energy trade floor meteorologist on the Natural Gas trading floor in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2.  Today I’d like to introduce the world of energy trade floor meteorology on the Power Trading Floor, west of the Rockies. West Power trading is [...]

The Future of Meteorology

15 Dec, 2011 | 14
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The Future of Meteorology still looks bright to me.  Even though the weather job market is tough right now, I believe employers in meteorology will hire again.  And I feel most of the jobs will come from a few specific sectors in meteorology.  I believe the future of meteorology will lie in 3 core areas: [...]

Bullish vs Bearish on the Energy Trade Floor

14 Dec, 2011 | 2
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In my previous posts, I discussed the typical day of an energy trade floor meteorologist in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2.   In today’s post, I’ll talk about why I believe Energy meteorologists should be careful about using the words “bullish” or “bearish” on the Energy Trade floor. In stock market terminology,  “Bullish” is [...]

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