President
World Weather Inc.
Overland Park, Kansas
2012 Weather to Hinge on Fate of La Nina
Wednesday, January 25 4:00pm - 5:00pm Room 2
Thursday, January 26 3:30pm - 4:30pm Room 1
Bio
Drew Lerner is President and Senior Agricultural Meteorologist of World Weather, Inc. Drew has been forecasting international weather for 32 years. He began his meteorology career in 1978 as he participated in an international effort to collect data and improve weather forecasting for the Asian Monsoon.
Since then, Drew has been supporting the agricultural industry by providing detailed short and long range weather predictions for each major crop area in the world. His daily assessments of crop and weather expectations supports commodity market trade and helps many companies make better agricultural business decisions. Drew started World Weather, Inc. in 2001 after leading Global Weather Services in the late 1990s. World Weather, Inc. is based in the Kansas City area and supports an expanding group of clientele residing in North and South America, India, Europe, Africa and Australia.
Session Summary
After an unusually quiet autumn with much warmer than usual weather and limited precipitation we entered winter with restricted topsoil moisture in portions of the Prairies. Now La Nina is playing out and is poised to stay with us for a while in the spring. La Nina may give a cool bias in the spring with late arriving precipitation, but the snowmelt will give us some initial planting moisture. La Nina’s fate will determine how wet or dry we get in late spring and summer. We will assess the potential for La Nina’s continued Influence in this presentation and help producers formulate a plan of action based on our expectations for the growing season.
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