Team

.Jim Roemer, the founder of Best Weather, Inc., is one of the few meteorologists working today with a multi-dimensional understanding of commodity trading, market analysis, and long-range weather forecasting.

With insights drawn from his in-depth knowledge of technical analysis, trading and crop production cycles, and commodity markets psychology, Jim provides advice to thousands of farmers and futures traders—in addition to large institutional investors, major grain companies, energy producers, and hedge funds.

Serving clients on five continents, Jim has over thirty years of experience as a commodity research analyst and weather forecaster. His business as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) is registered with the National Futures Association (NFA).

Some of his most recent weather market calls have been:

• Previous warm winters from 2020-2022 and the winter time bear markets in natural gas with various options and etf strategies.
• The collapse in coffee prices in 2021-2022 following droughts and freezes that helped coffee prices reach $2.00.
• The summer 2021 spring wheat drought and rally in prices and the etf (wheat)
•  Predicting that 70% of the Midwest corn belt would get decent summer rains and in the midst of drought. Recommending bearish strategies and hedges in corn close to $5.00.
• El nino driven weather problems for cocoa and sugar with various bullish option strategies to catch part of the bull move.

Jim can be seen sharing his meteorological expertise as a guest on Bloomberg and CNBC and in interviews in Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal. He also provides weather fundamentals to thousands of subscribers for SeekingAlpha.com and Barchart.com as a contributing writer.

Splitting his time between Sarasota, FL, and Vermont, Jim has a deep passion for and concern about the environment and climate change.

Martina holds a Ph.D. in Finance with a focus on International Finance and an MBA with a focus on International Marketing, both from Florida Atlantic University. She provides investment research, strategic consulting, and marketing support services to Best Weather’s team. Martina has over 20 years of experience in the field of financial analysis and research, real estate investment and sales, as well as financial education. Besides having been involved in the marketing and financial analysis of multi-million dollar commercial and residential real estate projects, she has worked in financial management and sales for an aviation company and given multiple corporate training seminars in finance. In 2000, Martina joined the College of Business faculty at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in the topics of corporate finance, international finance, and real estate. In addition to publishing numerous articles in refereed journals in the fields of education, investments, international finance, and real estate, she has earned multiple distance learning, face to face teaching, and research awards. She is a Hall of Fame member and All American at Florida Atlantic University and Broward Community College as their former #1 tennis player and was a world ranked professional tennis player in the late 1980’s.

Martina was selected to ‘Who’s Who in American Women” for her diverse background in athletics and scholarly accolades and service to students.

 Dr. Douglas Stewart, C.C.M., holds graduate degrees in meteorology from M.I.T. (S.M) and the University of Miami (Ph.D.). He has more that 40 years of experience using/building computer models and analyzing geophysical data sets in support of meteorological and applied climate studies, and has more than 20 years of experience in creating web-based software. He is a co-founder of Climate Predict, LLC and the principal developer of the Climate Predict tool set.

Climate Predict – BWI’s proprietary forecast software tools enable the user to extrapolate probable outcomes (monthly average forecasts) for agricultural crop conditions and energy demand. Global atmospheric and oceanic teleconnection indices and other indicators are used to construct composite weather conditions from selective analog years and months. These feed into the commodity market analyses covered in Weather Wealth. Both versions of Climate Predict
(Pro and Lite) are available by subscription.

Contact:
Douglas Stewart, Ph.D., C.C.M.
stewart@climatepredict.com

In addition to serving as editor of the Weather Wealth newsletter, Scott also edits and provides analytical and supporting documentation for Jim Roemer’s numerous articles appearing on such venues as Substack, Barchart.com, as well as Best Weather’s other published articles and opinion pieces in the broad spectrum of advisory platforms delivering financial market commentary.

As a commodity futures industry veteran, Scott’s career has taken him from learning the business at Continental Grain’s New York trading floor and later co-directing Citicorp’s entry into the energy futures business in the bank’s brokerage subsidiary Citicorp Commodities Corporation.  As an early adapter in the weather derivatives market, Scott consulted and advised the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in designing the first weather indexed futures contracts for temperature, precipitation and hurricanes. For nine years, he produced “Weather to Buy or Sell” – a feature that appeared in the weekly edition of The Wall Street Journal. This “infomercial” covered the CME weather futures activity:

Contact:
Scott Mathews
scott@bestweatherinc.com