AnythingWeather Communications aggregates weather and storm data from around the United States and world and offers many storm-related analysis products. Our comprehensive storm analysis reports and surface weather data from thousands of weather observation sites offer our clients the tools to make their businesses more efficient.

Our StormSwath reports deliver clients a detailed map of where hail storms, wind storms and flooding occured down to the neighborhood using an interactive Google-driven map. Clients can order a specific location and storm date and reports are delivered within two business days.

AnythingWeather.com also delivers weather data from thousands of personal and government weather stations. Using web services or other delivery methods, thousands of weather data and forecast feeds are available for consumption by our client's internal systems.

AnythingWeather also assists clients in selling and managing on-site weather stations and web cameras to establish their location as a worlwide weather reporting site. We provide complete weather station and webcam network setup, management and installation support.

David B. Spiegler, CCM has more than 40 years of proven experience in providing expertise across a broad spectrum of activities involving Meteorology, Climatology, and the Environment. Since the 1980s, he has provided expert analysis for more than 50 law firms and insurance companies on weather related legal and/or insurance claims. Mr. Spiegler has worked on cases in a number of states and has testified in district and superior courts, at arbitration hearings, and at environmental regulatory hearings. He has always been found to be qualified by the court.

Mr. Spiegler's cases range from slip and fall accidents, to motor vehicle, aircraft, and boating accidents, wrongful death and homicide, as well as cases for which damage to – or loss of – property from wind , snow, heavy rain, flooding, and ocean waves occurred. For many cases, he visited the site of the event and evaluated the physical and terrain factors. For all cases, he acquired, analyzed, and interpreted the weather data, reconstructed the weather at the time and location of the event/incident and/or damage or loss, and provided expert opinion and rationale for the opinion.

Services Offered:

Forensic Meteorology - build legal and insurance cases

Weather Industry Consulting - increases market share and profits

Weather and Climate Analysis - yields informed business decisions due to the impact of weather and climate

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Dr. David L. Mitchell is an authority on the Numerical Modeling of Geophysical and Atmospheric Data with a Doctorate in Meteorology from Purdue University. Dr. Mitchell has over 28 years of technical modeling experience in industry and consulting.

Dr. Mitchell is a Court Qualified Expert in Air Modeling and Forensic Meteorology. His business experience includes various research, project management and technical consulting positions with Conoco, Getty Oil Company, Texaco, Tenneco, British Petroleum, Leviathan Gas Pipeline LLP and IBM Corporation.

Dr. Mitchell has extensive knowledge of Forensic Meteorology and has published his research results on the numerical modeling of atmospheric stability and convection. Dr. Mitchell is an expert in the field of Air Pollution Meteorology with over 28 years of experience with the mathematical modeling of wave propagation in elastic media, atmospheric fluid dynamics and air dispersion modeling.

Dr. Mitchell is a specialist in Weather Event Re-Construction for litigation and has provided expert testimony for numerous cases related to severe weather events and the application of Force Majeure clauses. He has provided forensic meteorology support for civil and criminal investigations and insurance cases involving weather related accidents, the release of toxic pollutants into the air, air pollution and weather related personal injury and property damage.

He is a member of the Air and Waste Management Association, the American Meteorological Society and the National Association of Environmental Professionals. Dr. Mitchell is also an Associate Member of the American Bar Association with affiliation with the Litigation Division and is a Certified Professional Geoscientist and a Licensed Professional Geoscientist (#1330) in the State of Texas, Certified by the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists.

Degrees

Ph.D., Atmospheric Science and Meteorology, Purdue University 1976

M.S., Physics, Purdue University 1974

B.S., Physics and Mathematics (Dean’s Distinguished List), Baylor University 1972

Dissertation: A Theoretical Investigation of Atmospheric Convective Modes as a Function of Rayleigh Number, Prandtl Number and Eddy Anisotropy; 1977, Meteor. Soc. Japan, Vol. 55, No. 4, 341 – 363.

Certification and Honors

Court Qualified Expert in Air Modeling and Forensic Meteorology

Certified Professional Geoscientist, Licensed Geoscientist – Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists

Associate of the Scientific Research Society of North America

Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honors Society

Distinguished Expert, National Forensic Center

Thomas R. Piazza, CCM, President and CEO of Murray and Trettel, Incorporated, brings to the company more than 35 years of experience in the field of Meteorology with more than 20 years in positions of management. He joined Murray and Trettel in 1975 after four years of experience as a Weather Officer in the U.S. Air Force.

In 1987, Mr. Piazza was named President of the Operational Forecast Division, in 1991, Executive Vice President of the Company and in 2001, President and CEO. In addition to his administrative responsibilities as President, he is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist holding Certificate #661.

Crash Group at Robson Forensic

The crash group at Robson Forensic consists of Experts in Crash Reconstruction, Vehicle and Highway Engineering, as well as Commercial Trucking and Fleet Operations. We have experts who specialize in all types of vehicles, including trucks, buses, motorcycles, trains, bicycles, and forklifts. When appropriate, the Crash Group is supported by specialists in disciplines that impact vehicle crashes such as conspicuity, lighting, meteorology, biomechanics, human factors, and dram shop.

Our Crash Group consists of more than 20 experts across 17 locations. Please contact one of our experts directly to discuss your case and determine which of our experts is most appropriate to assist with your matter.

Thomas P. Lacek, P.E.
Crash Reconstruction & Occupant Kinematics

Tom can piece together a vehicle from start to finish: the brake system, transmission, shocks, engine, power steering, air conditioning, fuel systems. He has 30 years experience in automotive engineering with expertise ranging from used and new vehicles to antiques and classics. His vehicle expertise also includes areas of product liability, specializing in engine, transmission, ABS, sudden acceleration, brakes, steering, suspension, seat belt, air bag and other vehicle failures. Tom is a Professional Engineer, a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine and is ASE certified. View Curriculum Vitae

Erin M. Shipp, P.E.
Heavy Truck & Bus Engineering

Erin brings more than 35 years experience designing, testing, and building heavy trucks, buses, motor homes and passenger vehicles. Specializing in vehicles as small as the Chrysler Pacifica and as large as Thomas Built Buses and Freightliner trucks; Erin's experience includes engines and emissions; chassis; bodies and sleeper boxes, including handicap accessibility; as well as overall structural stability for crash performance. Erin is a Professional Engineer with experience testifying in heavy truck cases. View Curriculum Vitae



Erin B. Higinbotham, P.E.
Motorcycle & ATV Expert

Erin is a two-time national champion with the American Motorcyclist Association. He has more than 30 years experience with operation, maintenance and design of motorcycles and ATV's. As a Project Engineer for the Automotive Testing Laboratories and TRC Inc., he completed federal regulatory testing on motorcycles and ATVs. He has completed contract testing for several US and foreign motorcycle manufacturers. Erin has completed plaintiff and defense casework across the United States and Canada. View Curriculum Vitae

Richard J. ( Dick) Westergard is a Forensic Meteorologist, specializing in Re-constructing Severe Weather events. He has earned the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) highest level of certification of "Certified Consulting Meteorologist" (CCM).

Mr. Westergard has four decades of experience in operational meteorology with a focus on severe weather and radar interpretation. He has been trained on every weather radar ever used by the U.S. Government and used them all in operational settings to issue warnings and statements. He served as the official National Weather Service spokesperson in parts of West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York. He was also the designated primary liaison person from the National Weather Service to the State of New York from 1994 to 2004.

Forensic Meteorology & Other Weather Services Includes:

• Weather Records Retrieval and Interpretation
• Weather Radar Imagery Interpretation
• Severe Weather Damage Assessments
• Customized Weather Forecasting
• Weather Emergency Plans
• Severe Weather Risk Assessment

Dr. Liz Bentley is one of the world's leading Weather Experts. Former Chief Instructor of Forecasting at the Met Office College, she is the ultimate Climate Change Forecaster.

Her training began in 1994 at the Met Office College, the United Kingdom's meteorological training institute. After forecasting for the Royal Air Force and managing a weather unit for the British Army, Dr. Bentley worked as the BBC Weather Centre Manager, where she was in charge of 30 Met Office employees and was responsible for managing the contract between the BBC and the Met Office to provide Weather Data, Weather Warnings, and Weather Presenters. Prior to RMetS, Dr. Bentley worked for the Ministry of Defence's environmental research programme where she became one of the UK's top Aviation Forecast Specialists.

Dr. Bentley is Head of Communications at the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), where she is responsible for brand awareness, corporate communication through media, promotional material, public engagement, and membership development. While at the RMetS she has produced numerous corporate publications, implemented intiatives to increase society membership and addressed many enquiries from the media and general public on weather and climate related issues. Dr. Bentley founded the public membership organisation theWeather Club, in 2010, to promote an appreciation and understanding of weather.

Areas of Expertise:

Climate Change

Weather Forecasting

Noise Prediction

Aviation Forecasting