Why this exists
Most operations are stuck between an app and an enterprise contract.
Weather apps hand you data and leave the decision to you. Enterprise weather providers are priced for operations far bigger than yours. In between are the people who actually get hurt when weather turns: the producer with four thousand people on site and a cell twenty miles out, the race director deciding at four in the morning, the airshow director watching a ceiling, the captain reading a front. They make expensive calls with generic tools and nobody to check their read. That is who this practice is for.
Getting a forecast is easy now. Deciding what to do with it is still the job, and that is the part I do.
Services
Other ways to work together.
The Event Briefing is the way in. These are for operations that need something broader, longer, or more specific.
Weather Consulting
Ongoing retainer, or a defined scope
You get a meteorologist who knows how you operate. Some clients keep me on retainer because they face weather every week. Others bring one question and need depth once.
- Second opinions on a marginal call, by phone or text
- Written guidance ahead of planned operations
- Weather thresholds and procedures for your operation
- Review of automated and AI forecast output
Season-Ahead Weather Risk Brief
Per season, per venue or series
Before your season starts, a written read on what the next six months are likely to throw at you and which dates sit most exposed. Venues and series use it to place rain dates, size contingency budgets, and brief staff once instead of twelve times.
- Climatology and seasonal signals for your specific site
- The weeks and windows that carry the most risk
- Thresholds and contingency triggers agreed in advance
- One reference document your whole team can work from
Coaching & Mentoring
One-on-one, for professionals and students
For working meteorologists, operations staff, and students headed into the field. Most of what I taught on the desk was how to communicate a forecast, because the meteorology they already had.
- Briefing and communication for operational roles
- Reading guidance critically, and knowing when it is wrong
- Career direction, resume feedback, and interview preparation
- Mentoring for early-career meteorologists and students
Approach
How an engagement runs.
Every engagement runs the same four steps, in the order an operational desk uses them, fitted to one client at a time.
Understand the operation
I start with what you fly or run, where, and what your equipment and people can absorb. A 300-foot ceiling or a storm an hour out means something different to every operation.
Set the thresholds
We write down the limits that trigger a delay, a hold, or a cancellation, and we do it in calm conditions so they hold up under pressure.
Brief the decision
You get what I think will happen, how sure I am, and what you should do about it.
Stay in the loop
I monitor through the window, update you when the picture changes, and debrief afterward, including the times the forecast was wrong.
Who I work with
Events first. Aviation and marine close behind.
Five and a half years of aviation forecasting is where the judgment comes from. Outdoor events are where the practice is pointed now.
PrimaryOutdoor events and sport
Festivals and concerts, races and endurance events, regattas, golf and tournaments, and the municipal and private events that live or die on a six-hour window.
SecondGeneral aviation
Airshows, drone and UAS operations, flight schools and training, general aviation owner-operators, and FBO and ground operations. Airshows sit in both lanes at once, which is usually where I start the conversation.
ThirdMarine
Yachting, sportfishing and charter boats, and dock and port operations where a window either opens or it doesn't.
Also available, though not the focus: agriculture, construction and field operations, commodities, film and production, and insurance and risk. Contact for scope.
Expertise
The hazards I have worked repeatedly.
Five and a half years on an operational desk is mostly repetition against the same short list of hazards. These are the ones that stay hard to call.
Convection and lightning
Storm initiation and timing, and the lightning clock that decides whether you hold, clear a venue, or keep going.
Wind and gusts
Gust-front timing and sustained-wind limits for staging, rigging, tenting, light aircraft, and anything that has to stay standing.
Heat and air quality
Heat index and WBGT through an afternoon window, plus the smoke and air-quality days that are now part of the calendar.
Tropical systems
Track and intensity uncertainty, timing, and staying ahead of a decision that keeps moving.
Fog and low visibility
Radiation, advection, and coastal fog read against operating minimums, including when conditions will actually lift.
Turbulence and upper flow
Clear-air turbulence, jet structure, and mountain wave, and where the rough air actually sits.
Volcanic ash
Ash extent and trajectory, and the airspace closures that follow.
Winter weather and icing
Icing potential, precipitation type and timing, and the de-icing decisions that hang on them.
Oceanic and long range
Planning windows longer than the confidence, where the backup plan matters more than the destination.
About
- Education
- B.S. Atmospheric Sciences
The Ohio State University - Experience
- Global aviation weather
operations, 2020 – 2026 - Last role
- Lead Meteorologist
- Based
- Delray Beach, Florida
- Focus
- Events, general aviation,
and marine - Affiliation
- American Meteorological Society
Justice Falasco
For five and a half years, my job was to be the person someone called when the weather was about to cost them something.
I worked a 24/7 aviation weather desk, moving from Staff Meteorologist to Lead in four years. Thousands of flight operations, on routes crossing every continent and ocean basin, against fog, turbulence, hurricanes, volcanic ash, icing, and convection.
As Lead I ran the desk: workloads across five to ten meteorologists, quality control on every briefing before it went out, and training for more than twenty of them. Part of the job was checking AI and machine-learning forecast output against meteorological judgment. Automated guidance produces a decent forecast and still has no idea what that forecast means for your operation, or when it should not be trusted.
I left the desk in 2026 to do that work directly, with my name on it, for operators who need the judgment but were never going to be big enough to buy it through an enterprise contract.
Contact
Tell me what you operate, where, and what weather stops you.
The first step is a conversation, and there is no quote until we have had it. Bring a decision you have had to make recently, a trip you scrubbed or a call you were not sure about, and we will work through it. Pricing follows the scope and gets settled on that call.