A $150 billion misfire: How disaster modelers got Irma so wrong

Twenty miles may have made a $150 billion difference.

By Brian K. Sullivan | September 12, 2017 at 08:07 AM

Updated: 1:22 p.m. EST

(Bloomberg) – Twenty miles may have made a $150 billion difference.

Estimates for the damage Hurricane Irma would inflict on Florida kept mounting as it made its devastating sweep across the Caribbean. It was poised to be the costliest U.S. storm on record. Then something called the Bermuda High intervened and tripped it up.

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