Jay has been studying and writing about the world's climatology for eclipse chasers ever since a total eclipse rolled over his home in Winnipeg in 1979.

      His early weather studies were published in circulars issued by the U.S. Naval Observatory, but when funding for this publication ran out, he joined forces with Fred Espenak at NASA to write and publish about eclipses privately. Jay's work is now found mostly in the Reference Publication series printed and distributed worldwide by NASA.

      An amateur astronomer since the early 60's, Jay is a graduate in astronomy and physics from the University of British Columbia and is now a meteorologist with Environment Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

      Currently, he has more than a half-dozen total eclipses under his belt and as well as a scattering of annular eclipses. In addition to the NASA Reference Publications, his reports on eclipse weather and climatology can occasionally be found in the magazines Sky and Telescope and Astronomy, and in the Observer's Handbook of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, of which he is a member.