All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2022 // Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Texas coast in 2017. Then in 2020, ferocious winds from Hurricane Laura destroyed homes across coastal Louisiana. Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, leaving the...
Feb 17 2022 // Britain’s Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) an hour are set to hit the country on Friday.The weather service said the most...
Feb 16 2022 // Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines.Weather forecasters in the UK,...
Feb 15 2022 // Hurricane Elsa, which made landfall on July 7, 2021, with winds of 86 mph, caused about $1 billion in damage to the southern United States and multiple Caribbean countries, the National Hurricane Center reported.New data...
Feb 9 2022 // Efforts to reduce a backlog of tens of thousands of cases in Texas’ busiest court system got a boost Feb. 7 with the reopening of a newly restored building for jury selection.Officials and attorneys say bringing some...
Feb 8 2022 // A federal disaster declaration approved last year after remnants of Hurricane Ida hit Connecticut has been amended to include certain damage that occurred in Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Gov. Ned Lamont announced...
Jan 31 2022 // Nearly 2,000 households that survived Hurricanes Laura and Delta in Louisiana are getting more time in FEMA-provided housing as they complete the final steps of their recovery.The original end for the temporary housing...
Jan 19 2022 // Louisiana’s fisheries and seafood businesses experienced approximately $580 million in total losses resulting from four hurricane between August 2020 to August 2021, according to a new report by the Louisiana Sea...
Jan 11 2022 // A Louisiana administrative hearings panel has ruled that Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon was justified in preventing State Farm from enforcing a hurricane deductible for certain losses caused by Hurricane Barry in July...
Jan 10 2022 // The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development has halted the distribution of $1.95 billion that was approved for flood mitigation projects in Texas following Hurricane Harvey.A news release from HUD said the Texas...
Dec 30 2021 // A federal judge has found that Skanksa USA, part of one of the largest construction companies in the world, failed to secure its barges before a 2020 Florida hurricane hit. The ruling opens the door to hundreds of lawsuits...
Dec 22 2021 // The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was the third most active on record and the sixth consecutive year of above-average hurricane activity. Still, the overall season was mostly in line with the updated 30-year average,...
Dec 9 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.With the 2021 hurricane season coming to an end, insurers and government agencies are beginning to take stock of what occurred and how damages stacked up compared to...
Dec 6 2021 // Jennifer Chu | MIT News OfficeWhen forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic...
Nov 24 2021 // Nearly 15 months after Hurricane Laura struck, Louisiana is kicking off $11.3 million in housing repair and rebuilding programs for the southwestern city of Lake Charles while it waits for hundreds of millions in promised...
Nov 22 2021 // Louisiana residents impacted by Hurricane Ida’s destruction in August have a week remaining to seek individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.The deadline for individuals and families to...
Nov 9 2021 // Insurance companies are on track to pay at least $10.6 billion to cover Louisiana claims for damage caused by Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon.Donelon released the latest...
Nov 2 2021 // Hiscox has set aside $150 million to cover losses linked to Hurricane Ida and floods in Europe, the insurer said, above analysts’ expectations, while it reported strong premiums written this year thanks to rising...
Nov 1 2021 // Louisiana has established a voluntary mediation program for the purpose of resolving property/casualty insurance claim disputes related to damage caused by Hurricane Ida, which struck Southeast Louisiana as a category 4...
Oct 29 2021 // This year’s hurricane season started out as one of the most prolific in the modern era. Then suddenly, in October, the storms stopped.As of Friday, the Atlantic hasn’t produced a single new tropical storm in a...