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The Odds of a Hurricane-Boosting La Niña This Year Are Rising
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.
Category 6? As Warming Stokes Storms, Some Want a Bigger Hurricane Category
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 ...
Study: U.S. Renters Hit Hardest by Hurricanes
Two new studies suggest renters living along the East and Gulf coasts of the United States face rent increases, higher eviction rates and a lack of affordable housing in the aftermath of a hurricane ...
Piercing Through Rain, Smoke and Fog: How Radar Satellites See Catastrophes
The integration of new technologies into the claims ecosystem is gathering pace as insurance and reinsurance organizations seek to enhance both the speed and accuracy of payments. One example is the ...
Climate Change Means Californians Need Flood Insurance Now
Californians know wildfires and earthquakes; hurricanes, not so much. So, when Tropical Storm Hilary inundated Southern California in normally bone-dry August, it showed ...
Coastal Construction, Rising Replacement Values Contribute to Costly Hurricane Claims
Insured losses from hurricanes have risen steadily over just the past 15 years, with nine of the 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history occurring since 2005, according ...
CSU Research Team Forecasts Slightly Below Average 2023 Hurricane Season
The hurricane research team at Colorado State University in its early forecast of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is predicting slightly below-average activity.
What used to be a rare one-two punch of consecutive hurricanes hitting about the same place in the United States weeks apart seems to be happening more often, and a new ... Climate change has raised the cost of natural disasters, as rising sea levels and drought increase the frequency and severity of flooding and wildfires, insurers and risk ...
Study: Back-to-Back Hurricanes Likely to Come More Often
Counting the Rising Cost of Climate Change: The Most Costly Natural Disasters