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• Pet Peeves and Rear End Collisions
• Supercells and Hail Spikes

   
    Joseph D'Aleo

• Received his BS and MS in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin and was in the doctoral program at NYU. He was a professor of Meteorology and Climatology at Lyndon State College from 1974 to 1980.
• Joe left Lyndon to become First Director of Meteorology and co-founder of the cable TV Weather Channel in 1981. He left The Weather Channel to become Chief Meteorologist at WSI in 1988. He also designed the content for Intellicast.com and did weekly stories on weather and climate as "Dr. Dewpoint". He also was involved in product development for systems and data at WSI and worked R&D for statistical climate models used operationally in their energy and ag seasonal and long range forecasting.
• He partnered with 6 others in a commodity hedge fund that traded in energy and ags for 4 years. Currently he does weekly and daily AG forecasts for WSI and seasonal outlooks and has resumed weekly climate and weather stories for their web site Intellicast.
• He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a Certified Consulting Meteorologist. He was also a Councilor and Chair of the Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. He has chaired or co-chaired nationalconferences for the AMS and the National Weather Association.
• Joe is Executive Director of ICECAP (http://icecap.us <http://icecap.us/>), a very popular web site devoted to climate change. ICECAP cosponsored and Joe was a speaker at the three annual International Conferences on Climate Change organized by the Heartland institute and featuring over 1800 attendees and 200 speakers from 24 countries. He has addressed advisors to the President and congress on climate issues and forecasting.
  

• Winter One of the Coldest and Snowiest Where Most People Live- Follows a Cool Summer

   
    Michael Leiba

• Received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Meteorology from The Florida State University in 1986.
• From 1986 to 1987, Mike worked as a Meteorologist Analyst at The Florida State University, Department of Meteorology Annex's Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction Group (MASIG) where he analyzed and digitized maps of monthly pseudo wind stress averages over the Tropical Pacific. This study was directly related to the research of El Nino, and the prediction of Pacific Ocean current models.
• Since 1987, Mike has worked as an Environmental Specialist for the State of Florida, Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation Control.
• From 2002 to 2006, Mike volunteered as a Meteorologist, Weather Producer for WPBF News Channel 25 in West Palm Beach, Florida. He provided a 5 day weather forecast for the On Camera Weather Expert utilizing different kinds of weather prediction models. He also provided special weather statements from the National Weather Service as well as any climate information for the West Palm Beach viewing area. He would perform this responsibility an average of once a week.
• In 2009, Mike worked part time as a Certified Weather Observer at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida where he encoded and recorded aviation weather observations in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration.
• Since 1986, Mike has been a member of the American Meteorological Society.
• He was a member of the 2006 Palm Beach Post Hurricane Storm Team where his hurricane safety tips appeared on the Internet as well as in the Palm Beach Post.
• Since 2006, he has been a Certified SKYWARN storm spotter from the National Weather Service, Miami Forecast Office.
  
  
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