Jim Roemer graduated with high honors and a degree in Meteorology from Lyndon State College in Vermont. Jim’s teacher at Lyndon was responsible for starting "The Weather Channel" back in the early 1980’s. Jim is also involved in lecturing to universities about the climatology of global warming, long range weather forecasting, and teaching an occasional class in meteorology. He also advises several energy and future trading funds, and makes recommendations on how ski areas and other business can better protect their “bottom line” by hedging in the futures market or buying weather insurance packages. His powder forecasts for hundreds of skiers are second to none, and tell people days, and even weeks in advance where they should go skiing, and not where the powder has already fallen.

I'm probably best known as the weather forecaster for The Radio Vermont Group. I have a consulting business called Weathering Heights Consulting. I started in weather in 1974 with the U.S. Army, and continued with numerous stints with NOAA, NWS from California to Kansas City, to Cape Hatteras, to New York, and Vermont. In Vermont, I have done weather consulting for such clients as the Grateful Dead, Woodstock II, Lollapalooza, Vermont Symphony, Mozart Festival, Stowe Performing Arts, and a bunch of others. Other clients include various snow removal contracts from the state of Vermont, City of Montpelier and other towns, as well as my local innovative utility company, Washington Electric Cooperative. Mountain forecasting is tricky, and as you would expect, more intense, as weather in Vermont and New England is very "in your face." I enjoy Earth Sciences and the inter-relationships of our most precious resource - Nature. I prefer the use of technology in ways to help us as a species go with the flow instead of rebelling against it, and reject those who support "old ways of thinking.”  These are exciting times for new and innovative ways to deal with our energy problems, and we need to open our minds on what is working and what is not. Away from the science side, I have also been a fairly accomplished drummer/percussionist for the last 35 years, and I have played in a number of local bands across northern Vermont. For me, the rhythms of music and weather go hand in hand, naturally.