Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hannover Re 3rd Quarter Profit Rises 21% on Benign Hurricane Season
Nov 5 2014 // Hannover Re, the world’s third- biggest reinsurer, said third-quarter profit rose 21 percent, helped by a benign U.S. hurricane season and higher income from investments. Net income rose to 251 million euros ($315...
Zombie Storms Cause Damage After Hurricanes
Oct 31 2014 // A hurricane may lose its name, its structure and even its place on National Hurricane Center tracking maps. None of that is a guarantee the storm’s meteorological energy won’t keep making mischief. While still...
Tropical Storm Heads to Mexico’s Western Coast
Oct 31 2014 // With just about a month left in the eastern Pacific’s hurricane season, Mexico is once again the target of a tropical system on its western coast. The latest system, Tropical Storm Vance, was drifting west in the...
Remnants of Hurricanes Still Can Be Powerful – and Dangerous
Oct 28 2014 // A hurricane may lose its name, its structure and even its place on National Hurricane Center tracking maps. None of that is a guarantee the storm’s meteorological energy won’t keep making mischief. While...
Carpenter Report Details Impact of 2004 & 2005 Hurricane Seasons
Oct 27 2014 // Guy Carpenter & Company released Part II of the two-part Ten-Year Retrospective of the 2004 and 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons. Part II focuses on the 2005 hurricane season and the cumulative effects of both the 2004...
Early Insured Loss Estimates on Hurricane Gonzalo Up to $400M
Oct 23 2014 // Early estimates by catastrophe modeling firms indicate insured losses from Hurricane Gonzalo in Bermuda will come in between $200 and $400 million. EQECAT estimates $300 million in insured losses, about the scale caused by...
Remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo Bring Rain, Wind to Europe
Oct 21 2014 // The remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo battered Ireland and the United Kingdom with locally damaging winds and downpours on Monday night and Tuesday. Widespread wind gusts of 65 to 90 kph (40 to 55 mph) were reported across...
Ana Turns From Hawaii, Downgraded To Tropical Storm
Oct 20 2014 // Hawaii residents started to relax Sunday after days of keeping a cautious eye on Hurricane Ana, which was downgraded by late afternoon into a tropical storm. After being dangerously close for several days the closest Ana...
Bermuda Recovering from Hurricane Gonzalo Property Damage, Power Outages
Oct 19 2014 // Hurricane Gonzalo scored a direct hit on Bermuda Friday night into Saturday morning, pummeling the tiny island chain with rain and howling winds that downed trees and knocked out power but spared it catastrophic damage or...
Hurricane Gonzalo Threatens Bermuda With Flooding, Storm Surge
Oct 17 2014 // Gonzalo, classified as a major hurricane and bearing down on Bermuda with tree-snapping winds, is forecast to bring flooding and a life-threatening storm surge as it’s projected to be the worst storm to hit the...
Hurricane Gonzalo Bears Down on Bermuda
Oct 16 2014 // The last major hurricane to strike land anywhere in the Atlantic basin was Sandy in 2012. That may change tomorrow as Hurricane Gonzalo bears down on Bermuda. Gonzalo again became a Category 4 storm today, the first since...
Tropical Storm Ana Eyes Hawaii; Hurricane Gonzalo Threatens Bermuda
Oct 15 2014 // Hurricane Gonzalo grew into a major storm that threatens Bermuda later this week, while half a world away Tropical Storm Ana may become the second system this year to sweep Hawaii’s Big Island. Gonzalo, with top...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Still Surprise
Oct 12 2014 // The Atlantic hurricane season isn’t dead yet. As weather-watchers focus on Typhoon Vongfong in the Pacific and Cyclone Hudhud in the Bay of Bengal, a subtropical depression has formed south of Bermuda late last week,...
Atlantic Hurricanes Still Threaten to Brew
Oct 10 2014 // As weather-watchers focus on Typhoon Vongfong in the Pacific and Cyclone Hudhud in the Bay of Bengal, there are signs that the Atlantic may have a storm of its own, or more, in the next few weeks. A patch of showers and...
Alabama’s Lessons from Hurricane Ivan at 10th Anniversary
Oct 6 2014 // Last month marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, one of the costliest tropical storms to ever hit the U.S. Ivan came ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Sept. 16, 2004, as a Category 3 storm. The storm also...
Pacific Sees Storm Deja Vu as Atlantic Starts to Run Out of Time
Oct 2 2014 // Yet another tropical storm is budding in the Pacific south of Manzanillo, Mexico, while in the Atlantic the danger is fading, at least for the energy-producing areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Depression 19-E...
Florida’s Citizens Pays Off Bond, Drops Surcharge 2 Years Early
Sep 26 2014 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer will stop collecting a one-percent assessment that had been used to retire a bond issued following the 2004-2005 hurricane season. The Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board...
Once Again, Texas Lawmakers Asked to Do Something about Windstorm Insurer
Sep 22 2014 // What to do about Texas’ wind insurer of last resort? That’s the question being asked again of Texas lawmakers in advance of the coming legislative session. In a surprise visit to a Senate Business &...
How South Carolina Has Changed Disaster Plans in 25 Years Since Hurricane Hugo
Sep 19 2014 // This weekend’s 25th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo offers South Carolina residents the chance to remember the devastation wrought by their worst storm in the past century – and to be ready in case another such...
NOAA Hopes Drones Get Data from Hurricane Edouard
Sep 18 2014 // U.S. government scientists are launching winged drones into Hurricane Edouard, hoping to collect data that could help forecasters understand what makes some storms strengthen into monsters while others fade away. This...
