All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 29 2015 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its hurricane model for the U.S. to help insurers and reinsurers better understand and quantify the risk from hurricanes.The update features a hydrodynamic storm...
Jun 18 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill wrung out almost 12 inches of rain over parts of eastern Texas, was downgraded to a depression and then handed off from the National Hurricane Center to the Weather Prediction Center.That doesn’t...
Jun 16 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill came ashore on the Texas mainland this morning near Seadrift, packing heavy rains that will drop as much as 10 inches along the coast.Bill’s winds were 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour, up from...
Jun 15 2015 // Thousands of Americans have been working to prepare their homes and businesses for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season which began on June 1, so why isn’t Congress taking steps to get its own house in...
Jun 15 2015 // Even though it meant the commencement of hurricane season, weather-beleaguered Texans are likely pleased that May 2015 has come and gone.Both Texas and Oklahoma were pelted during the month of May with all kinds of violent...
Jun 10 2015 // Researchers trying to figure out what makes some hurricanes strengthen into catastrophic monsters have a new lab that allows them to generate tropical storm conditions with the flip of a switch.The lab is at the University...
Jun 8 2015 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Although the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts have been spared any significant hurricane damage over the past two years, it should not be perceived as the new normal. New...
Jun 5 2015 // The latest bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami describes Blanca as a “large hurricane,” with hurricane force winds extending “outward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center and tropical...
Jun 4 2015 // Hurricane Blanca weakened slightly off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Thursday but could restrengthen as it continues moving toward tourist resorts at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National...
Jun 4 2015 // More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to a report released today.Property...
Jun 3 2015 // Hurricane Blanca strengthened to a category 4 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Wednesday and was expected to bear down on a tourist hub at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National...
Jun 3 2015 // The outgoing director of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) says the program is a “melting iceberg” that is incapable of properly managing its various players including the private insurance carriers...
Jun 3 2015 // Florida gun owners who don’t have a concealed weapons permit can now take their firearms with them while fleeing a hurricane.Not that it’s been a big problem in Florida in the past. No one can cite an example...
Jun 2 2015 // Even though it means the commencement of hurricane season, weather-beleaguered Texans are likely pleased that May 2015 has come and gone.Texas was pelted during the month of May with all kinds of violent and deadly...
Jun 2 2015 // The Atlantic hurricane season opened with empty seas and low expectations as two storms raged off the western coast of Mexico, where they will almost certainly stay.Hurricane Andres, which formed last week and grew into a...
Jun 2 2015 // The hurricane planes known affectionately as “Miss Piggy” and “Kermit” are getting new Rolls-Royce engines, new wings and better radar.Every hurricane season for nearly four decades, the two...
Jun 1 2015 // Popular opinion says that tropical storms and hurricanes that make landfall mitigate droughts in the southeastern United States.But that simply isn’t true, according to a Florida State University researcher. Vasu...
Jun 1 2015 // Americans who worry about dying worry about the wrong things.That’s according to the National Safety Council, which kicked off National Safety Month by unveiling its annual list of Americans’ “Odds of...
Jun 1 2015 // Living in a (semi)-tropical paradise has a price – and apparently, not even going nine years without a major hurricane strike will change that.While Florida’s property insurance market has stabilized somewhat since...
May 29 2015 // Colorado State University’s annual benchmark forecast for Atlantic hurricanes is unlikely to change significantly when it is updated June 1, according to CSU hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach, as the increasing...