Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NOAA Updates Forecast for Atlantic Hurricane Season, Pacific’s El NIno
May 26 2017 // The Atlantic hurricane season will likely churn out an above-average 11 to 17 named storms, in part due to fading odds than an El Nino will form in the Pacific. Of storms that emerge during the six-month season that begins...
Weather Co. Updates Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast
May 22 2017 // In its second seasonal tropical forecast for the North Atlantic basin for the 2017 season, IBM’s The Weather Co. said it now expects a total of 14 named storms, seven hurricanes, and three major hurricanes, a slight...
Florida Hurricane Cat Fund Ready for Storm Season
May 22 2017 // The Florida fund that helps private insurers pay out claims after a hurricane continues to be in strong shape ahead of storm season. Estimates prepared by Raymond James show the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund will have...
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Off Slowly
May 18 2017 // The eastern Pacific hurricane season is starting off with a whimper. While one short-lived tropical storm developed off Mexico’s Pacific coast last week, the earliest on record, computer models show another one...
Mississippi Urges Residents to Invest in Flood Insurance
May 4 2017 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney has issued a strong recommendation to residents of the state to secure flood insurance and noted several new private flood carriers have entered the state’s flood...
Meteorologists Offer Conflicting Predictions on 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
May 1 2017 // Most meteorologists forecast the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than a year ago, with the number of named storms and hurricanes near average. A few meteorologists, however, expect this season to be more...
How Meteorologists View 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Apr 21 2017 // Most meteorologists forecast the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than a year ago, with the number of named storms and hurricanes near average. A few meteorologists, however, expect this season to be more...
Trump’s Proposed Cuts to NASA and NOAA Could Impact Forecasting, Modeling
Apr 13 2017 // Funding cuts proposed in a White House budget that has been on the table for months spook some experts who are concerned that the ability to do everything from model changes in the climate to forecast the day-to-day...
Six Months Later, Hurricane Flood Victims Still Recovering in Virginia
Apr 11 2017 // In the months since Hurricane Matthew, Dawn Sawyer has watched her 9-year-old, Sam, bite his nails down to “nubs.” She’s never seen him do that before. As Sam remembers it, he slept right through the...
Congress Sends Bill to Boost Weather Research to President’s Desk
Apr 11 2017 // The National Weather Service would have to boost research – including some from private companies – to improve forecasts and storm warnings under a bill headed to President Donald trump’s desk. Lawmakers said the...
Looks Like Below-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season, Say Colorado Forecasters
Apr 11 2017 // Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2017, citing the potential development of El Niño as well as recent anomalous cooling in the tropical...
North Carolina Requests Nearly $1B from Congress for Hurricane Recovery
Apr 10 2017 // North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is seeking nearly $1 billion from Congress to help North Carolina counties still recovering from Hurricane Matthew more than six months after it caused massive inland flooding and killed 28...
Thunderstorms Just as Costly to Insurers as Hurricanes: Study
Mar 22 2017 // Risk to U.S. property from thunderstorms is as high as from hurricanes, according to new research finding that for the past decade, severe convective storms have been the largest annual aggregated risk peril to the U.S....
Florida’s New ‘Hurricane Hunter’ Base on Schedule for Storm Season
Mar 9 2017 // Officials say they’re on schedule to open the new home base for the U.S. government’s “hurricane hunter” aircraft before the Atlantic hurricane season begins. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Border Adjustment Would Sock Florida with Hugely Higher Insurance Rates
Feb 27 2017 // In recent years, Congress repeatedly has considered legislation that would have adversely and profoundly impacted disaster-prone states like Florida. Luckily, we were spared passage, over and over again. Unfortunately, a...
U.S. Estimates Hurricane Matthew Damage to Recreational Boats at $110M
Feb 20 2017 // Hurricane Matthew, which threatened four coastal states as it corkscrewed through the Atlantic in early October, caused an estimated $110 million in damage to recreational boats, according to Boat Owners Association of The...
Proof of Loss Deadline Extended for Florida Hurricane Matthew Claims
Feb 8 2017 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has granted another extension giving National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders in Florida an additional...
Flooding and Damaging Wind Were Most Destructive Natural Hazards in 2016
Feb 2 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Annual Summary from CoreLogic Details 2016 Natural Hazard Events CoreLogic® analyzes and evaluates the number and severity of natural hazard events that occurred...
North Carolina to Receive $198M in Federal Grant for Hurricane Matthew Relief
Feb 1 2017 // North Carolina has been officially awarded nearly $200 million from the federal government for Hurricane Matthew relief that Congress approved last month in a larger spending agreement. Gov. Roy Cooper’s office says...
ARC, Topa Insurance Launch Coverage for Post-Hurricane Losses in Florida
Jan 31 2017 // Topa Insurance Co. has formed an exclusive partnership with Assured Risk Cover (ARC) to launch StormPeace, an insurance product in Florida designed to protect insureds from economic loss incurred by a named hurricane and...
