Joe D'Aleo

Joseph D’Aleo has been co-chief Meteorologist of WeatherBell since the company started in 2011, is a major contributor to WeatherBell Premium and serves WeatherBell Commercial and WeatherBell Premium Agriculture clients. He continues to research how sea surface temperatures, global oscillations, soil moisture and solar cycles influence seasonal weather.

Mr. D'Aleo was a co-founder and the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel. He has over 45 years of experience in professional meteorology, previously Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and the WSI Intellicast.com website. He was a partner and Chief Meteorologist at a hedge fund trading energy and agriculture before joining WeatherBell at its founding.

Mr. D'Aleo was a college professor and chaired the Meteorology program at Lyndon State College. He has authored a resource guide on El Niño and La Niña and papers on how research into ENSO and atmospheric, oceanic and solar oscillations have made skillful seasonal forecasts possible. Mr. D'Aleo has also published numerous peer-reviewed papers and books and made numerous presentations focused on seasonal forecasts and their impacts on agriculture, energy, and industry to conferences for government, professional societies, and industries in the U.S., Brazil, Canada and China.

Mr. D'Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He has served as a member and then chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and has co-chaired national conferences for both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. Mr. D'Aleo was elected a Councilor for the AMS, the first private sector meteorologist to be elected by his peers for that role.