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Factoring weather into your business is difficult, but important. We are here to help you make more confident and informed decisions. Energy Agriculture Retail / Supply Chain Winter SimuAWIPS Construction Expert Services Data Services Our Clients WeatherBELL Premium Take a tour here Radar WeatherBELL Premium is the exclusive home for weather content from our team of meteorologists. Membership includes written and video content from our top meteorologists as well as access to our leading weather models page. Joe Bastardi Joseph D'Aleo Thomas E. Downs, V The Saturday Summary · 5 days ago WeatherBELL Maps View Maps WeatherBELL Press Check out WeatherBELL in the press. Tom Downs Joins AgriTalk to Discuss Ag Weather - July 15, 2020 5 months ago Read More Bastardi on Fox News: \'Bomb Cyclone\' Threatening Thanksgiving Travel 1 year ago Read More The Potential Impact of Hurricane Dorian 1 year ago Read More See More WeatherBELL Team At WeatherBELL, we are uniquely positioned to help your business prosper by advising you about one of the most complex systems under the sun: weather. Such complexity demands cross-disciplinary skills – with over 100 years of collective experience spanning such diverse topics as meteorology, statistical modeling, business, law, computer science, engineering and broadcasting, it is our mission and pleasure to render the complicated comprehensible. Michael Barak Founder / CEO Mr. Barak's passion for weather and keen interest in its economic impact on the private sector led him to assemble a team capable of the most accurate forecasts. He developed a close relationship with two meteorologists, Joe Bastardi and Joe D'Aleo, whom he believed to be second to none in forecasting ability. Prior to founding WeatherBELL, Mr. Barak was a Vice President at Crossways Consulting Group, an aerospace/defense focused consulting firm. Mr. Barak helped develop channels to market and business opportunities for clients in the United States and abroad. He worked alongside industry leaders where his input was strongly valued. Mr. Barak received his Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Cornell University in 2005. Mike Shanahan President / COO Mike Shanahan serves as Chief Operating Officer for WeatherBell Analytics, having been with the company since WeatherBELL's inception in 2011. Prior to WeatherBELL, Mr. Shanahan held positions across multiple industries: as a Project Engineer for American Infrastructure, a heavy/highway contractor in suburban Philadelphia and as a Senior Analyst at America's Growth Capital in Boston. Mike received a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the Cornell University School of Engineering and also holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Joe Bastardi Chief Forecaster 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. Many companies across a multitude of industries, including energy, winter maintenance and retail/supply chain, are profiting from his forecasts. His exceptional skills are rooted in a comprehensive understanding of global oscillations and in-depth analysis of historical weather patterns. Mr. 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. Mr. Bastardi is well known for his WeatherBell Premium blog, featuring the popular videos "The Atmospheric Avenger," "The Raging WeatherBull” and "The Saturday Summary”. During his 32 year tenure at Accuweather, Mr. Bastardi built a large private client services business and honed his skills at applying his knowledge of the weather to various applications. 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. Mr. Bastardi graduated from Pennsylvania State University and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology. Joe D'Aleo Chief Forecaster 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. He continues to research how sea surface temperatures, global oscillations, soil moisture and solar cycles influence seasonal weather. Mr. D'Aleo was a co-founder and the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel. He has over 45 years experience in professional meteorology, previously Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and the WSI Intellicast.com website. He was a partner and Chief Meteorologist at a hedge fund trading energy and agriculture before joining WeatherBell at its founding. Mr. D'Aleo was a college professor and chaired the Meteorology program at Lyndon State College. 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. Mr. 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. Mr. D'Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). 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. Mr. D'Aleo was elected a Councilor for the AMS, the first private sector meteorologist to be elected by his peers for that role. Mike Furlender Web & Technology Developer Mike Furlender has been w...