Future Weather Incorporated is a Canadian corporation founded by Roger Smith in 1980 to study global climate processes and make long-range forecasts.
This work began on a rather simple foundation, using existing conventional techniques and hoping to blend in some new research on the interactions between the Moon and the atmosphere.
This research yielded some promising results in the 1980s, but a second research program then began when further study revealed the importance of variations in the solar system magnetic field.
The research has continued intensively since that point, and expanded from North America to Europe and Asia as the research of Roger Smith continues to develop in detail. The whole complexity of global climate is obviously of great importance to this project, but the day to day development of the theory at this stage involves detailed predictions for North America and western Europe in particular.
At this stage, in the “climate” of global warming that affects all scientific work in this field, the research could best be described as alternative and focused on the natural variability of the earth’s atmosphere, although the company maintains an objectivity about how much the climate may also be changing because of human activity. At this point, the basic answer to that complex question is: most of the variations observed are probably natural and therefore predictable from some comprehensive theory like our own. Some additional warming or modification may be taking place, but probably less than the consensus of the IPCC and other climate authorities.
Future Weather Inc. will continue to develop its research, focusing on monthly and seasonal trends, any possible improvements to global models in use for short-range forecasting, and severe weather, long a dedicated interest of the company’s founder.
(note: the current home page photo shows a wintry scene in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, looking north across Slocan Lake towards the Selkirk Mountains. It won’t be long before we see these beautiful snow-covered views again. )
Current weather across southern Canada and the USA (except Alaska & Hawaii) …
I just dropped by. My, it looks very nice. I’ve bookmarked it and will tell my friends
Looking good Roger! Brilliantly presented site and informative too. Best of luck with it!
Roger (who is right here) says thanks very much, he learned a lot about website design and operation from both of you, and the bar is set pretty high. For now, we’re just taking baby jumps with training wheels on our trikes.
Thanks also to “Delta X-Ray” who may drop in and say more, he helped me get started but has returned to base while we fly solo (why are we upside down? … Roger over and out).
Tis me again. I have popped your RSS Feed on this blog so get posting guys!
http://weatherchat.blogspot.com/
Does this itty bitty box take html code?..
If it does here is the link
if it didn’t you’ll just see a mess and can delete this comment
Hello
All links work just fine! html coding (along with silly smilies ( 😉 ) work also..
…..Delta X-Ray..probably his first and last comment here (just helping out Rog 🙂 )
Hi y’all, thanks so much to Delta X-Ray for his assistance, don’t be a stranger, and POD, where would I be without him? … and ladies of Weatherchat, thanks for the comments, I will be talking to you about how this site could link with Weatherchat as we move forward. Almost three years since we started Weatherchat if I recall, so as they say, the longest journey must start with a single malt beverage. Isn’t that it?
Hello Delta X-Ray..the name seems familiar.
Are you one of the magnificently gifted weather gurus here?
You should ignore me you know. I’ll treat this place like it’s a forum.
I’ve just read …
Your Overview of the New Theory..
I find it intriguing…
I’ve a confession. I dabble in astrology. I will forgive your laughter. Yes, I sit twizzling my astrolabe and drawing trillions of charts.
I have noticed extreme unpredictable weather correlates with Uranus planetary cycles.(lightning, gales) Pluto = severe floods and storms. I am still testing my theories (been studying it since about 1989) . mars transits tend to act as triggers.
As you might have gathered I am a nit and have proven nothing..or I would be a famous global celebrity by now.
I will be a regular reader here..so when you’re all famous I can claim to know you.
Morticia, the theory being developed by Future Weather is not quite the same as “astrology” as that word is now understood by modern civilization. The relative position of the Moon and Sun to the planets comes into play in this new theory because there is presumed to be some physical interaction taking place, and this would be when objects are aligned or due to curvature of some of the effects, when they are at defined angles of separation.
Astrology, as far as I understand it, relies on some of the concepts but might contain some that would have no known physical significance in this research, so to that extent, I would say they are different concepts, at least somewhat different.
We didn’t find Pluto to be much of a source for gravitational waves or field sectors, but it is currently very close to the galactic equator. How long a period did you study to make your findings? It could be that what you have ascribed to Pluto is actually the stronger signal of the galactic centre which is almost behind Pluto nowadays. In 1980 Pluto was about one zodiac sign behind where it is today, so it doesn’t race along very quickly.
I don’t think there’s anything mysterious or supernatural about the processes at work in the atmosphere, as viewed by our research model. However, it is not standard gravitational force or straight-forward electro-magnetic interactions we are seeing either. There seems to be some as-yet-undiscovered set of forces or wave interactions, for one thing, they don’t fall off quickly by distance as with gravitation (remember Newton’s equation, mass over square of distance). In fact these don’t fall off very quickly at all by distance, and one-tenth the mass seems to work more like seven or eight tenths in relative terms, so both mass and distance fall off very slowly in this new effect we are studying.
That makes it rather like a designed system of some kind, like electricity coming into our homes for example, which as you know is just about as strong one mile from the generating station as it is a hundred miles away.
We are still working on the details, and it could be another generation of research before this new force is better understood. However, because it seems real, it allows more solar system objects to have a pretty strong role, otherwise this would be basically the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter perhaps as the main players and all the others as very minor ones indeed. More later if you follow up …
— Roger Smith
This is a good looking site, Roger. I’ve always found your posts over on Net Weather very interesting and informative and will be keeping more than half an eye on this one.
I’m already greatly encouraged by your winter forecast for the British Isles but there will be no recriminations if it all goes boobs skyward as the season progresses.
T.M
Great to see the site up and running Roger.
Fingers crossed, your work will now receive the greater attention it deserves!
Hiya Roger..
Nice to see things up and running. I hope it brings you the attention your work deserves.
Good luck!! 🙂
Hi Roger
Great site mate and rest assured I’ll frequent over here. This is in my favourites list. Let’s see what winter brings and see if we get another major rebound and with colder temps up there……someone/where is gonna get hit bad…but sadly not Redhill. Anyway your research needs to be spread and understood by more folk and signs have been encouraging recently…good luck
Fred
Thanks for comments and words of encouragement. It would be difficult to explain in words how frustrating it has been to see this research unfolding without being able to pass it along to the community. I’ve told people in the past that it would not surprise me if this research represented the foundation of some future version of meteorology but quite possibly well into the future.
The fact that David Dilley with his GWO project has independently come to some similar conclusions is of course very exciting news.
People doing this kind of research are more likely than not to be AGW skeptics … but clearly, there could be an interaction between natural cycles and human modification, whether it is subtle or robust in nature. That’s one of my remaining challenges, to try to unravel the signals with sufficient reliability that some excess (small, medium or large) can be justifiably seen as modification from a human source.
A totally unbiased hurray and well done and congratulations from Keewatin Press, wordstem and Mlle Juno, for creating this site! It’s a far cry from the days of the IBM Selectric and licking stamps — and a work of community too. Bravo!
I always thought this internet thing might be a passing fad, but it seems to be here to stay, so I might as well go with the flow … I’ve licked enough stamps and envelopes for one lifetime, that’s for certain.
I’ve just found this site via Netweather and will be a frequent visitor. It’s a good-looking site, Roger and seems to attract the more moderate contributors to this contentious debate. I’ll read rather than contribute as I know little but will follow the debate with great interest.
With kindest regards,
Mike.