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What is the Fujiwhara Effect? Hurricane Florence and equity trading
TRY A SAMPLE WEEKLY CLIMATELLIGENCE NEWSLETTER, HERE Hurricane Florence will have deadly impacts, but African dust may weaken hurricane season later into the fall. How hurricanes affect natural gas and lumber prices. A partial list of which...
Hurricane Florence, Climatech and possible implications for commodities
CLIMATECH—-HURRICANE SEASON; 2001 ANALOG PATTERN MAY POINT TO NO EL NINO I mentioned back in May that I thought the hurricane season this summer and fall would be “weaker” than normal with low chances for a MAJOR hurricane in the Gulf...
Florida’s Red Tide: Possible causes, Who’s to blame? Implications to humans and how it can be resolved
As a steward of trying to bring more awareness to people about global warming and protecting our environment, seeing and smelling, the Red Tide Algae in Florida, is particularly bothersome. THE FIRST THING you notice is the smell. It’s not a scent,...
Its not just drought, Australian 2018 catastrophic losses are mounting up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAKp278Fp8 Updated weekly global commodity weather reports, here Australian catastrophe & weather losses pass $261m year-to-date by ARTEMIS on AUGUST 21, 2018 Natural...
The collapse in Copper prices and how El Niño can sometimes rescue this base metal
Copper prices hit their lowest levels in 13 months last week and entered a bear market, potentially signaling that an economic slowdown is happening around the world. "Dr. Copper," as it is sometimes referred to by economists and finance...
World on fire, commodities running wild, find out more about our new weekly CLIMATELLIGENCE REPORT
PLEASE CLICK ON THE BLUE LINK TO DOWNLOAD OUR RECENT WHEAT REPORT. Email SUBSCRIPTIONSBESTEWEATHER@GMAIL.COM and we will also send you...
Arctic reaches 90 degrees as the world is burning up. More evidence of Climate Change
Edited by Scott Mathews See a video here THE NEWS KNOWS Courtesy of the Center for Science & Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, the chart above tracks the appearance of articles about climate change and...
A look at global drought and now western corn/soybean belt has to be watched for heat and dryness in August
We have seen over 3,000 record high July temperatures from areas out west where brush-fires are blazing, to France and Germany where corn and wheat crops are wilting in dro and even in far away remote places in Asia. 2018 will go on record as the...
Introduction to new weekly weather-commodity report–CLIMATELLIGENCE
By Jim Roemer and Shawn Hackett, edited by Scott Mathews
A look at the Indian monsoon and Brazil’s growing drought: Are they enough to make sugar prices recover?
SUGAR: ANY CHANCE FOR A LATE SUMMER OR FALL RALLY ON WEATHER PROBLEMS? In the midst of a developing drought for Parana and Sao Paulo’s sugar region, why have prices continued to stay weak? After all, Brazil is the top exporter of sugar in the world...
USDA report for wheat and cotton result in a bullish reaction. Where are the areas of global crop stress?
It's a battle between large global stocks for wheat, which has pressured the market the last 5-6 years, versus continued weather issues for wheat crops in Australia, Europe and parts of the Former Soviet Union. The USDA did indeed lower global...
The WPO index: Ideal Midwest weather conditions will continue for corn and soybean farmers.
There has been some talk about lower corn yields in the Midwest. This stems from warm night-time low temperatures. As shown in the maps below, something we call a negative WPO (Western Pacific Oscillation index) is just one among several...
Global weather and crop issues remain for wheat, but Trade War concerns continue to offset bullish factors
The grain market has been battling the best U.S. corn and soybean crop conditions in more than 20 years, plus trade war worries with China. However, the one grain that continues to witness global weather problems is wheat. After a...
El Nino or El Nino Modoki? What are the differences and how may commodities be affected?
Cooler ocean temperatures in the eastern tropical Atlantic and warmer oceans further west could imply a potential El Niño Modoki (click here) in the months ahead. However, the differences in where this "potential" El Niño will develop could...
How the Trade War and weather is affecting commodities
The image above is from the web site globalmeatnews.com. This blog discusses the Trade War and weather related markets such as soybeans, cotton, coffee and cocoa...
PRESS RELEASE Jim Roemer announces release of Climatech for commodity and hurricane forecasting
SARASOTA, Fla.—(BUSINESS WIRE)--Commodity markets across the globe will be greatly affected by weather and crop conditions in the months ahead. Most recently: Droughts were devastating wheat crops Cotton prices were making new highs on...
CLIMATECH: The Science of Hurricane Forecasting (and the most likely scenario for 2018)
How we use teleconnections to second guess computer models and other weather forecast firms in hurricane forecasting...
Billions of pounds of plastics in the oceans could lead to critical food security issues
Picture above from sciencemamag.com Some photos and excerpts from National Geographic, June 2018 If plastic had been invented when the Mayflower carried the Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean, their trash would still be with us today....

























