All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2024 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is reminding carriers that additional data is due April 17 on Hurricane Ian claims.All property insurers are required by law to submit the enhanced catastrophe reports, including...
Apr 4 2024 // Weather forecasters at Colorado State University (CSU) on Thursday predicted an “extremely active” 2024 Atlantic hurricane season because of warm sea surface temperatures and less wind shear to break up storms...
Mar 27 2024 // Accuweather meteorologists are predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season with as many as 20-25 named storms.The 2024 hurricane season is forecast to feature 8-12 hurricanes including 4-7 major hurricanes. This...
Mar 18 2024 // When Allstate’s Florida unit, Castle Key Indemnity Co., entered the surging condominium insurance market in 2020, it looked like it had made a smart bet: Within two years, the carrier had added no fewer than 123,000...
Mar 18 2024 // AccuWeather experts warn that the return La Nina and historically warm water across the Atlantic Ocean could contribute to a “super-charged” hurricane season in 2024.AccuWeather long-range forecasters say that...
Mar 6 2024 // We recently brought together thought leaders from across Moody’s to talk with the media at our 2023 Hurricane Season Recap and 2024 Outlook briefing, to provide a range of perspectives from meteorology to market...
Feb 23 2024 // AccuWeather experts warn that the return La Niña and historically warm water across the Atlantic Ocean could contribute to a “super-charged” hurricane season in 2024.AccuWeather long-range forecasters say that...
Feb 21 2024 // The familiar “cone of uncertainty” map, used for years by meteorologists to show a hurricane’s predicted path, is about to get an upgrade – at least temporarily, the National Hurricane Center announced...
Feb 12 2024 // The odds of a La Niña weather pattern this year are rising, amplifying the risk of hurricanes in the Atlantic and drought in California and South America.There’s a 55% chance that La Niña, a cooling of the...
Feb 7 2024 // A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6.Studies have shown that the strongest...
Jan 25 2024 // The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld a 2022 decision against Church Mutual Insurance Co. in favor of Sugartown United Pentecostal Church in Dry Creek, Louisiana, which sits about 50...
Jan 23 2024 // The state corporation that oversees the Florida Cat Fund is planning to borrow as much as $3.8 billion to ensure the fund has plenty of money on hand to reimburse property insurers for losses when homes are damaged or...
Jan 23 2024 // Just over a day after Storm Isha started to clear, the UK is bracing for more hurricane-strength winds off the Atlantic.Jocelyn — the 10th named storm of the season to hit the UK — will rip across the north of the...
Jan 22 2024 // Storm Isha is causing travel disruption and power blackouts across northern Europe, as it brought hurricane-force winds to the UK and other parts of the region.The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning across the UK...
Jan 8 2024 // More than six years after Hurricane Harvey flooded thousands of homes and killed more than 80 people on the Texas Coast, the city of Houston has yet to allocate $200 million in federal relief funds to victims, according to...
Dec 19 2023 // While only three hurricanes made landfall in the United States this year, rapidly intensifying hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans charted near the top of record lists in 2023.Each of the year’s major...
Dec 18 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s beginning to look at lot like … hurricane season — at least across much of South Florida, where it’s been windy and rainy for two days and the forecast...
Dec 15 2023 // Newswise — With a severe shortage of affordable housing in the United States, renters living along the East and Gulf coasts are uniquely vulnerable to hurricane disasters. Two new studies based on data from 2009 to 2018...
Dec 5 2023 // Ending on Nov. 30, the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season saw 20 named storms, ranking fourth for the most-named storms in a year since 1950, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.Seven storms were...
Nov 27 2023 // GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Hurricane Sally wiped out a 200-foot (61-meter) section of the Gulf State Park Fishing Pier on the Alabama coast in September 2020 just as it was about to reopen after a $2.4 million rebuild...