Issued on the 31st of July, 2026

Energy Meteorology: Forecasting for the Power Industry - Focus on the energy markets, utilities, and renewable power, with a specific focus on how and where renewables are located, how the weather affects power generation, and how to make a forecast for wind, solar, and hydro power. Learn how the grid operates, how renewables integrate with the grid, and how energy trading works. Finally, learn how to create a forecast and present it to traders. Hands-on, practical learning where you will make short- and long-term wind, solar, hydro, and city load forecasts and then present them to your class and to a current energy trading hiring manager.

Launch Date: September 2026

Course Length: 10 weeks

Course Teaching Style: Instructor-Led, Live, based on US Eastern Time, UTC-4

The Jobs

Industry: Operational Meteorology

Title: Operational Meteorologist

Company: Perry Weather

Work Location: Dallas, Texas

Pay: None Given

Benefits: See Job Listing

Degree:

• Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences.

Years of Experience:

• Early - Mid Career +

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Experience forecasting in operational or high-impact weather environments.
• Ability to convey complex weather in an easy-to-understand, actionable format customers can apply right away.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
• Customer-focused with a passion for helping others make informed decisions.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment where priorities can shift quickly.
• Available to work 12-hour shifts, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays, to provide continuous weather monitoring and support for our customers.

Who Should Apply?

This is a great opportunity to work in a high-impact environment where the results of your forecast will be felt right away. This company works with sports teams at the high school, college, and professional levels to predict real-feel conditions for football practice and warn when it is too hot, or to predict lightning risks for a game, and you help make the call: go or no-go to protect fan and player safety. This is the high-impact part. Delaying a game is one thing, but cancelling a game is a big deal and requires strong decision-making skills.

They also work with construction, and it could be about too much wind, rain, or temperatures while pouring cement, or lightning. Having to tear up brand new concrete because of bad weather is a costly fix and one you are helping clients prevent.

This company is all about making real-time monitoring and forecasting alerts for clients.

About the Location

The job is onsite in Dallas, specifically in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, which is just north of the city, pretty close to Southern Methodist University, which is a nice part of the city and an area with plenty of places to eat and hang out. The city does have light rail in some parts of the city, including this area, so getting around by bus or train is possible. Dallas is hot and dry in the Summer, can get cold with occasional snow or ice in the Winter, but overall fairly pleasant, and the cost of living is significantly lower than other big cities. Texas has no state income tax.

Found on LinkedIn - Jobs Page

Industry: Broadcast

Title: Meteorologist

Company: Praedictix

Work Location: Eden Prairie, Minnesota ( suburb of Minneapolis )

Pay: $50,000 per year

Benefits: See Job Listing

Degree:

• 4-year degree (B.S.) in Atmospheric Science/Meteorology or equivalent coursework.

Years of Experience:

• 2+ years in meteorology

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Must be able to produce and broadcast dozens of daily local, regional, and national weather videos. This includes coverage for many different areas of the country as well as international coverage.
• Must be able to communicate the forecast for a variety of different climates fluently and proficiently in English. This includes, but is not limited to, severe weather, winter weather, and hurricane coverage.
• Must be able to talk and stand for long periods of time in a brightly lit studio environment with many screens. On-air and/or consulting shifts typically range from 5 to 8 hours, but may be extended if there is a need. If you've ever worked in retail or a restaurant, you got this.
• Ability and drive to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, and embrace flexibility. This can’t be understated.
• Ability to effectively explain complex meteorological concepts to diverse audiences, including non-experts. - Don't use jargon. Focus on the impact.
• Must have exceptional communication skills both verbal and written–must adapt communication style to suit different audiences. - I've made weather videos. It's hard to say the right thing, speak clearly, and to the point. You should like being on video and making the videos.
• Ability to write detailed forecast reports, briefings, and blogs. - You can't just ask AI to write you something.

I didn't list all the requirements because there are many. However, don't judge the job based on the number of requirements. This company knows what they want, and many of the bullet points build on the prior one, so read through them, see if you have the first 2 out of each grouping, and apply.

Who Should Apply?

People who are either on TV and want to continue this line of work but not for a TV station. Or people who want to get into broadcast meteorology.

This is a good company in a great location, near but not in a big city, and with low turnover; it is seemingly a group of people that enjoy working together. These are the things you want to see in a company.

You should like snow and ice and absolutely the coldest temperatures you've ever experienced, unless you are from North Dakota or the North Pole. You don't have to like the outdoors, but if you do, you might enjoy this region more.

About the Location

I've been to Minneapolis 4 times in my life and never in the Winter. One time to interview with now-defunct Northwest Airlines, and it is the only time I visited the Mall of America (I think the second-largest mall in North America, with roller coasters inside). Twice driving through when I lived in North Dakota, and one time flying to an interview for a job I got in Salt Lake City for Northwest Weathernet (listed in last week's Friday Job Report). I've never really stopped there to visit, but I did see the cherry on the spoon sculpture.

If you do move there, from a weather perspective, it is near one of the best locations to chase tornadoes where you don't have to really chase; you just park and watch. That location would be Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Others include the Chicago suburbs, Denver, and Lubbock (sometimes). I'm sure there are many others, but in these locations, you can get stalled boundaries due to the terrain that act as a focus for the tornadoes to develop along, and then they just sit and move very little. In the 4 years I lived in the Chicago suburbs, there was this one intersection where tornadoes were reported twice, one each on different corners. It was due to a situation with the lake breeze in the summer where it moved all day into the suburbs and stalled, during peak heating and with a subtle 500mb short-wave, large storms rapidly developed, but they didn't really move. Pretty sure Fujita studied this while at the University of Chicago. Anyway, Fergus Falls is out in the corn fields to the West near the South/North Dakota border.

Found on LinkedIn - Main Page, Not Jobs

Industry: Energy

Title: Energy Meteorologist

Company: MetDesk

Work Location: England (west of London)

Pay: None Given

Benefits: See Job Listing

Right to Work: Must have a right to work in the UK.

Closing Date: 13th of August, 2026

Degree:

• A Bachelor's degree in meteorology or a related scientific discipline.

Years of Experience:

• Experienced; you should have energy experience

Key Skills or Knowledge: (Bonus Points or better chance of getting an interview in BOLD)

• Experience as an operational energy forecaster for European or worldwide markets.
  • Have worked on a trading floor, briefed traders virtually, or worked for a company like MetDesk so you have a strong grasp on how the European, US, Asia, or other regional energy markets function.
• Comprehensive knowledge of global weather models, including strengths and weaknesses.
  • Why would you use the ECMWF over the GFS? Have you used the AIFS? Why? What does it give you that the regular ECMWF doesn't?
• In-depth knowledge of synoptic meteorology and climatology.
  • Why is France on fire? What weather pattern led to this? When will it end? What does the Winter forecast look like in 2026/2027? How does the weather pattern affecting France influence the weather in Amsterdam or London?
• Knowledge of key teleconnections and how they can impact global weather patterns.
  • Look up a list of every teleconnection that exists and learn what it does, how it forms, and when it ends. There are like 25 or more.
• Experience in analysing and visualising large datasets would be an advantage.
  • This means having this experience puts you in the "a lot better chance of an interview pile".

Who Should Apply?

If you are a UK citizen or have a right to work there, then apply. Since it's England, these guys and girls are the Kings and Queens of energy meteorology in Europe, but maybe globally. WSI/AG2 is up there with a similar product, but they are at the top in what they do. There are many informational companies that have energy clients, but if you really want to be immersed in the data that is being used by traders, this is the job that will take you into that world. So if you want to work, not on the trading floor, but providing trading information through forecasts and briefings, then you should apply.

My Experience Interviewing with MetDesk

MetDesk opened an office in Houston, Texas, and I somehow applied for it before it was actually ready to be filled. So when I saw that it was officially posted, I reached out to Julian Telford, who was the one setting it all up and in charge of that office. I offered, because I have family in Houston, to pop in for an interview. So I paid my own way to fly to Houston to get this interview. The interview, in my case, was a conversation and a written test.

Now, what I've learned in my career is that sometimes what you think is going to happen is not what always happens. I had an idea from previous interviews how this interview might go, and it went a completely other direction. The written test was really hard, but it was hard because it was mostly topics that I rarely used as an energy meteorologist. It was what they cared about, and it was on topics that I since then use all the time, but at the time, it was like if you've ever been really caught off guard, like if someone sneaks up on you to make you jump. The test was heavy on teleconnections, and there were 10 or so that I had never heard of and had no idea what they did. Stratospheric warming had a huge role, and I knew enough to make clients think I understood it, but when forced to prove it on paper, well, it didn't go over very well.

Long story short, I didn't get an offer. It wasn't my best effort, but I learned a new way an interview can be given, and I learned there are many things I do not know and there is always room to learn. I spend entire days in my current role immersed in teleconnections, and I have learned and used new patterns, some of the ones on that test.

Found on RMets

Industry: Energy / AI / Startup

Title: Customer Success Manager

Company: Jua

Work Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Pay: None Given

Benefits: See Job Listing

Degree:

• Bachelor's degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, or related science from an accredited college or university

Years of Experience:

• 3–5 years of experience in key account management, customer success, or technical solutions roles, within a startup environment, or if you have an energy/weather background with customer success

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Understanding of how weather data influences energy trading decisions
• Ability to interpret and explain weather data and forecasts to both technical and commercial stakeholders
• Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, visualization, APIs, and workflow troubleshooting
• Proven success managing renewals, upsells, or account expansion in a technical or data-driven context
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the proven ability to collaborate effectively across sales, product, and engineering
• A high degree of ownership, adaptability, and curiosity, with the drive to move fast and deliver meaningful results

Who Should Apply?

This is definitely not a weather forecasting role.

This job is outside of weather, but the skills you need to be successful and what this company does heavily involve the weather. This is a small startup based in Switzerland, but with staff all over the world. They provide an AI technology platform for energy trading operations. This role involves more engagement with current customers to make sure they are able to use the platform, and working with them to make sure they renew. However, 2 of the 3 top requirements involve understanding and explaining how the weather influences energy demand, which is what you would know if you had an energy meteorology background. If you have a strong Python and Data Science background, I would apply.

My Experience Interviewing with Jua

The reason I knew to look to see if they were hiring was that I interviewed with Jua a few years ago for a meteorology role. However, the reason I didn't do well was that they were looking for heavy programming skills, ones that I do not have. The initial interview was with a person in South Africa. The second interview was with the team in Zurich. They want people with a more technical background, and in this case, the ability to engage with customers, both potential and current, and help them understand the weather's influence on trading.

Found on Jua's Website

Final Thoughts

Interviews can have a certain vibe or flow, and it can make or break your chances of advancing to the next round.

A Bad Vibe

Sometimes the personality of the interviewer can take over the interview and make it difficult for you to present the best version of yourself. I've done interviews, mostly with a single person, where either our personalities clashed, or they gave off a hostile undertone, like they didn't want you to succeed. If you encounter this type of person, I don't think it should make you doubt the company, but hold onto that feeling in case it either comes up again or someone else in the company comes off that way; then you should run. I've worked with jerks or people with huge egos, and it can be unbearable, so make sure when you encounter this type of person, you really evaluate the situation, especially if the person has been with the company for a while.

A Good Flow

However, most of the time you will either get an interviewer skilled in speaking to other people and can hold their ego in check, and the interview progresses at a good pace, or you will get a genuinely nice person who wants you to succeed and really wants to learn how you will help the company succeed. I've interviewed with these types of people and hold onto those conversations the most.

Just a note: I don't cover broadcast meteorology roles because I know nothing about how you get those. I also do not cover US government or military contractor roles. You can find most government jobs on USAjobs.gov.

Hope this helps.

Good luck on the job search!