All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2014 // The statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season has arrived and for the first time since 2000 there isn’t a named storm in the basin.While forecasters are watching a pair of potential candidates, neither is...
Sep 11 2014 // Tropical Storm Odile off the west coast of Mexico is forecast to become a hurricane tomorrow.Odile, with top winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour, was 210 miles southwest of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, moving west at 2...
Sep 11 2014 // For all the Atlantic Ocean’s composure this hurricane season, the eastern Pacific is turbulent after already producing its 15th storm.Tropical Storm Odile formed southwest of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, yesterday,...
Sep 8 2014 // Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely due to the implementation of statewide building codes and strategies that...
Sep 4 2014 // The National Hurricane Center in Miami is tracking Hurricane Norbert, the 14th named Western Pacific storm of the season, as it moves up the West coast of Mexico towards the Baja Peninsula.The NHC’s most recent...
Aug 29 2014 // Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely due to the implementation of statewide building codes and strategies that...
Aug 29 2014 // When it comes to Atlantic hurricanes, brief and ugly is beautiful, at least to Phil Klotzbach, lead author of Colorado State University’s seasonal storm forecast.That’s because a ragged-looking tropical system...
Aug 27 2014 // The most recent report from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, at 5:00 A.M. EDT, notes that Cristobal is now hurricane strength with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph – 130 km/h, and “some strengthening is...
Aug 27 2014 // The most recent report from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, at 8:00 P.M. PDT, indicates that Hurricane Marie is “gradually weakening over colder water.” The storm, located around 1190 kms [740 miles]...
Aug 26 2014 // Hurricane Marie grew into a large and powerful Category 5 storm and moved west-northwestward far off the Pacific coast of Mexico, threatening dangerous surf conditions from Baja California Peninsula up through Southern...
Aug 25 2014 // The National Hurricane Center in Miami has finally been able to give the third weather disturbance of the current hurricane season a name – Tropical Storm Cristobal. According to the 5:00 A.M. bulletin from the NHC...
Aug 22 2014 // A potential tropical system became a bit ragged with poor definition late yesterday as it neared the Leeward Islands at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea.A U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter found a small area of...
Aug 19 2014 // The official start of the most active part of the Atlantic hurricane season arrives tomorrow with more of a whimper than a bang.If tradition holds, William Gray, who pioneered seasonal hurricane forecasting more than three...
Aug 18 2014 // Forecasters with the National Weather Service raised the likelihood for a below-normal season in their most recent Atlantic hurricane season outlook.The Aug. 7 update predicts a 70 percent chance of a below-normal season,...
Aug 13 2014 // It has been 10 years since the record-breaking 2004 Atlantic hurricane season when four major hurricanes – Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne – all made landfall in Florida within the space of six weeks, damaging one in...
Aug 13 2014 // It’s almost the middle of August, and the Pacific has been cranking out hurricanes and typhoons all over the place.So, what’s with the Atlantic? After just about two and half months, hurricanes Arthur and...
Aug 13 2014 // It’s almost the middle of August, and the Pacific has been cranking out hurricanes and typhoons all over the place.So, what’s with the Atlantic? After just about two and half months, hurricanes Arthur and...
Aug 12 2014 // Insured losses stemming from two Hawaii hurricanes won’t break the bank, in large part because both storms diminished in intensity or avoided a direct hit.Fitch Ratings concluded in a review of the situation that...
Aug 11 2014 // Hurricane Julio weakened Sunday night as it neared Hawaii, where a rural swath of the Big Island was still coping with power outages and downed trees in the wake of Tropical Storm Iselle.On the island of Kauai, rescuers...
Aug 8 2014 // A recent article by the Palm Beach Post blasting Citizens Property Insurance Corp. executives for traveling overseas casts a negative image onto the state-owned and operated insurer. However, what the article fails to...