Latest Hurricane Headlines

All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.

SageSure Secures $60M Cat Bond Ahead of Busy Hurricane Season

Jul 11 2024 // SageSure, a managing general agent specializing in catastrophe-exposed markets in the Southeast and other states, along with its affiliated Anchor Re captive reinsurer and SURE reciprocal, announced they have secured a $60...

Damage From Hurricane Beryl May Cost Insurers $2.7B in US, $510M in Caribbean: KCC

Jul 11 2024 // Insurers in the United States may take a hit of about $2.7 billion from damage caused by Hurricane Beryl, catastrophe modeling company Karen Clark & Co (KCC) said on Thursday.About 1.5 million customers remained...

Hurricane Beryl Triggers Record Payout for Caribbean Insurer

Jul 11 2024 // Hurricane Beryl’s path of destruction through the Caribbean last week triggered a record $44 million payout to the nation of Grenada from a regional catastrophe insurance fund.The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance...

Caribbean Braces for Economic Punch After Season’s Deadly 1st Hurricane

Jul 10 2024 // Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it left a trail of destruction on Jamaica and islands...

CSU Research Team Increases Atlantic Hurricane Forecast

Jul 10 2024 // Hurricane Beryl got the respected team of researchers at Colorado State University to rethink its forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season, which has already seen three named storms.CSU’s Department of Atmospheric...

Most of Houston Loses Power as Hurricane Beryl Delivers Latest Blow

Jul 9 2024 // Much of Houston remained without power in Tropical Storm Beryl’s wake, and authorities warned the blackout could last days even as heat builds across the battered region.Beryl left the nation’s fourth-largest...

More Than 2.3 Million Texans Without Power as Hurricane Beryl Moves Inland

Jul 8 2024 // Hurricane Beryl has knocked out power for more than 2.3 million Texas customers, as of 10:27 a.m. Monday, based on estimates from PowerOutage.us and CenterPoint Energy.Outages are most extensive in the Houston area and...

New State Climatologist For Louisiana Warns of ‘Very Active’ Hurricane Season

Jul 8 2024 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced last week that Jay Grymes, the chief meteorologist for WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, will serve as the new state climatologist.Among responsibilities in his role,...

Insurance Industry Impact From Hurricane Beryl Expected to Be ‘Manageable’

Jul 8 2024 // Hurricane Beryl made its U.S. landfall at Matagorda, Texas early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane.The storm has reportedly knocked out power to 1 million homes and businesses, but the storm’s overall impact to the...

Beryl Regains Strength, On Track to Reach Texas as Hurricane

Jul 8 2024 // Tropical Storm Beryl is gaining strength as it lumbers toward the south Texas coast, and is expected to become a hurricane again before it makes landfall early Monday morning.The storm was about 165 miles (266 kilometers)...

Update: Beryl Rakes Mexico’s Yucatan With Hurricane Winds and Heavy Rain

Jul 5 2024 // Hurricane Beryl pummeled Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with tree-toppling gusts and flooding rains, weakening slightly as it came ashore after leaving a trail of destruction through the Caribbean this week.Beryl’s...

How the Hot Water That Fueled Hurricane Beryl Foretells a Scary Storm Season

Jul 3 2024 // Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts said.Beryl smashed...

Hurricane Beryl Roars Toward Jamaica on Destructive Path

Jul 3 2024 // Hurricane Beryl churned toward Jamaica with violent winds, heavy rains and a life-threatening storm surge that could cause more than $1 billion in damage.Beryl’s winds roared at 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour...

Beryl Becomes Earliest Ever Category 5 Hurricane in Atlantic

Jul 2 2024 // Hurricane Beryl has strengthened after becoming the earliest ever Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, with the system heading toward Jamaica with life-threatening winds and heavy rainfall.Maximum sustained winds increased to...

‘Extremely Dangerous’ Hurricane Beryl Takes Aim at Caribbean

Jul 1 2024 // Hurricane Beryl, described by forecasters as “extremely dangerous,” is set to cause massive damage across the Caribbean’s Windward Islands on Monday.Beryl’s winds roared across the region at 120...

Study: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma Triggered Uptick in Flood Insurance

Jul 1 2024 // Short but severe flooding that followed hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017 triggered a nationwide increase in flood insurance take-up driven by a county’s social network proximity to flooded areas, says a new...

A Potential Atlantic Hurricane Is About to Clash With a Cloud of Saharan Dust

Jun 28 2024 // A cluster of thunderstorms is threatening to become the Atlantic’s next tropical storm or hurricane — if it can survive a cloud of dust from the Sahara.The storms southwest of the Cape Verde islands have a 70%...

Velocity Risk Partners with LSU to Develop Gulf Coast Hurricane Model

Jun 25 2024 // Velocity HoldCo, the parent company for Velocity Risk Underwriters, announced a joint venture with Louisiana State University (LSU) on a Gulf Coast-central hurricane model.The model uses daily data to predict US hurricane...

FEMA Is Ready for Hurricane and Wildfire Seasons, but Money a Concern

Jun 24 2024 // The head of the Homeland Security Department said Friday that the agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country is prepared as it goes into what is expected to be an intense hurricane and wildfire season...

Potent Hurricane Weather Pattern Continues to Take Shape, Forecaster Says

Jun 17 2024 // The hurricane season continues to look like it will be a highly active one, as a potent and portentous weather pattern continues to take shape, an AccuWeather meteorologist told Claims Journal on Friday.“It certainly...