Yesterday, I had the privilege (compliments of SeekingAlpha) of attending the first WIRED Magazine Disruptive by Design conference, held at the wonderful Morgan Library and Museum in New York. The majority of conferences that I attend are usually research and/or application oriented, where most of the real value from attending comes from discussions at the poster [...]
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 [...]
The recent SST anomalies are showing increasing warming around 120-130E, with a particular change of the warm surface waters north of Australia. The image at the top left shows the monthly SST anomalies, compared to the top right which show the most recent weekly anomaly. A significant warming can be seen in equatorial regions, coupled [...]
As (northern hemisphere) summer approaches, attention in the ags space naturally starts to focus more on weather expectations. Over the coming months, I will be giving talks at numerous international commodity conferences of various sizes, addressing the Weather Trends outlook and how this fits into the global commodity outlooks for both agriculture and energy. Next [...]
