hurricanes

• Meteorologist: Late-Season Hurricanes Are Possible

  By staff writer  |  September 30, 2011

  Fall is here, but we are not in the clear for severe storms developing in the Atlantic basin.

• Models Must Account For The Real And Significant Risks Of Inland Hurricanes

  By Ioana Dima, Tim Doggett  |  July 14, 2011

  Because damaging winds are rarer far inland, the hurricane risk to the interior of the U.S. can be easy to overlook. But storms can travel hundreds of miles after landfall, and there is plenty of historical evidence for storms causing billions of dollars of damages in interior states.

• How Can Rating Agencies Better Gauge Carrier Cat-Risk Exposure?

  By Karen Clark  |  May 16, 2011

  Since differences in catastrophe-model estimates essentially result from differences in frequency and severity assumptions, modeling pioneer Karen Clark proposes that rating agencies use “benchmark” 100-year catastrophes to gauge cat risks for rated companies, rather than PMLs that can vary widely depending on the modeler and the version of the model...