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Jim Block has 22 years of commercial meteorology experience, 20 of them at Meteorlogix. He helped found Meteorlogix’s Meteorological Operations (MetOps), and designed and helped develop the Meteorlogix weather database and software to process satellite and radar data for Meteorlogix products. Prior to Meteorlogix, Block worked at the Great Lakes Weather Service Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin, doing radio and utility forecasting. He also co-founded the meteorology department at Republic Airlines in the Twin Cities. After the airline was forced to shut down its forecast operations, Block helped to move the department to Meteorlogix, which was looking for ways to diversify beyond selling radar monitors. In addition to forecasting, by using his programming expertise Block automated much of the data collection at Meteorlogix, and in the process created Meteorlogix’s weather data collection system and database. Block eventually oversaw all meteorological software development at Meteorlogix, and was named a certified consulting meteorologist (CCM) by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 1989. In 1998, Block was placed in charge of all Meteorlogix Meteorological Operations including the acquisition of Weather Services Corporation of Boston. Block has been a member of the AMS since 1976, and serves on the AMS Board on Private Sector Meteorology. He is a past president of the National Council of Industrial Meteorologists and is currently a member of the Council’s board of directors. Block holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. | 