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 fleets far bigger than yours. In between are small flight departments, owner-operators, and event producers, making 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
Three ways to work together.
Each one is shaped to your operation and the decisions you have to make.
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
Custom Forecast Services
Per event, or per operating window
These are built around a date and a place. We agree the thresholds in advance, I monitor through the window, and on the day someone is watching it with you.
- Site-specific forecasts at the resolution the decision needs
- Pre-agreed triggers and escalation timeline
- Live monitoring and updates on the day
- Post-event debrief
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
The expertise comes from aviation. The work goes wherever weather sets the schedule.
Five and a half years of aviation forecasting, general aviation most of all, is the background. The practice is built for any operation where weather makes the call.
In aviation that means small flight departments, owner-operators, flight schools and training, and FBOs and ground operations.
Outdoor events and sport, marine and yachting, agriculture, construction and field operations, film and production, and insurance and risk work carry the same weight in the practice. The decision looks different in each, and the way I get to it is the same.
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.
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.
Tropical systems
Track and intensity uncertainty, timing, and staying ahead of a decision that keeps moving.
Convection
Rapidly developing storms, squall lines, and microburst risk inside operating windows.
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
- Sector experience
- General & Business Aviation
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.