Tropical Cyclone

On Tuesday, hurricane experts were expecting Hurricane Michael to reach the coast of Florida as a Category 3 storm but overnight it intensified to a monster Category 4 hurricane.

Following Hurricane Florence I accompanied members of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) disaster assessment team to evaluate the wind performance of building stock.

Indonesia is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Learn how scientists knew the September 2018 Palu earthquake would be disastrous.

Typhoon Ida made landfall in Japan 60 years ago, bringing record levels of precipitation to Tokyo and nearby provinces, causing devastating mudslides and flooding.

Given advances in science and statistics, we set out to develop an explicitly space-time and environmentally driven representation of tropical cyclogenesis—the origin of a tropical cyclone.

For the second time in the last two years, hurricane precipitation in the U.S. will be exacerbated by incredibly slow movement.

An hours clause stipulates that the cedant is only protected against the financial loss accumulated within a set number of hours of a catastrophe. Calculating the expected loss on a treaty with an hours clause is an ongoing challenge facing reinsurers.

The sea level has risen globally in the last century and climate change is the culprit. Inaction during Sunny Day Floods is especially unacceptable.

Ten years ago today, the costliest severe thunderstorm outbreak to strike Europe since the 1984 Munich hailstorm began.

AIR’s meteorological team reviews 18th AMSConference on Tropical Meteorology and Hurricanes with talks about stormsurges, hurricane landfalls, and more.