A weather forecaster is warning Southeast and Gulf Coast residents to be alert next month for quick forming tropical storms that could materialize with little warning as summer temperatures rise.
The severity of hurricane-related losses can vary drastically -- challenging insurers to be prepared for the unknown at all times. Here's how insurers are successfully adjusting to evolving risk exposures and policyholder needs.
Perhaps the single most important outcome or use of seasonal activity forecasts is that they generate public interest and aid in public awareness of the tropical cyclone threat, especially just prior to the beginning of the hurricane season.
In the wake of an active 2008 Atlantic basin hurricane season, Colorado State University Researchers (CSU) Philip Klotzbach and William Gray have issued an official forecast for the impending 2009
Hurricane experts William Gray and Philip Klotzbach leaders of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University released their early extended range forecast for 2009 calling for a heighte
The 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially comes to a close on Nov. 30, marking the end of a season that produced a record number of storms consecutively striking the United States. The season
Writing insurance in the coastal areas of the United States always seems to present more of a challenge to agencies than writing similar policies in non-coastal areas. Is this because it is by nature harder to write
Despite a number of conflicting research findings, the general consensus among weather and climate researchers is that global warming, whether natural or man-made, is unlikely to increase the