Hurricane Bill becomes the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season.  track should stay in the Atlantic, posing no threat to natural gas or oil production fields in the GOM. 

Authors:
Dennis O’Donnell
Business Meteorologist
Rich Woolley
VP, Operations
Over the past weekend 3 named systems developed in the tropical Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The first named storm, Tropical Depression Ana, is currently positioned southeast of Puerto Rico and is forecast to move northwest in the coming days and weaken as it passes over Haiti and the [...]

In addition to the numerous references to this topic in our weekly commodity newsletters, one of our posts last week mentioned  that we have been monitoring ocean conditions over the last few months to track and forecast conditions that serve as precursors to El Nino development later this year.  To monitor these changes, we now [...]

 
This is another new global mapping capability that is incorporated into our MYskeye  global weather mapping platform.   We have taken global maps that were developed to forecast minimum relative humidity and wind speed/direction, and combined them to construct an index that will be useful to identify global crop regions that may be susceptible to weather [...]

 
Weather Trends has released a new white paper, titled ‘Anticipating the Climate Black Swan’ applying the idea popularized by Nassim Taleb’s excellent book (The Black Swan, 2007).  Go here for the press release and to download the paper.