Researchers Predict Above-Average Hurricane Season This Year April 8, 2021 Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021, citing the likely absence of El...
Billions Will Experience ‘Sahara’ Like Heat in Next 50 Years, Report States May 8, 2020 By Don Jergler Roughly a third of the global population could experience an average annual temperature of 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit (29C) in the...
Spring Forecast: 65% Chance of No El Niño or La Niña March 18, 2020 There is about a 65% chance that neutral weather conditions will prevail in the Northern Hemisphere this spring with no...
Study Finds El Niños Getting Stronger October 29, 2019 By Seth Borenstein Climate change is making stronger El Niños, which change weather worldwide and heat up an already warming planet, a new...
Australia Floods Cost Insurers US$635M in February: Aon’s Catastrophe Recap March 8, 2019 Australia’s Northern Queensland experienced widespread flooding from Jan. 26 to Feb. 7, which cost insurers more than A$893 million (US$635...
There’s 65% Chance That Weak El Niño Will Emerge in Spring, Says U.S. Weather Service January 10, 2019 There is a 65 percent chance of an El Niño weather pattern emerging during the northern hemisphere spring this year,...
JBA Risk Management Launches India Crop Model for Re/Insurers as El Niño Looms November 15, 2018 JBA Risk Management (JBA), the UK-based modeling firm, has launched an India crop catastrophe model for the re/insurance market. More...
California Heads into its Peak Fire Season with State-Sized Burn Scar October 8, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan and Mark Chediak California is poised to set an annual record it never wanted to break: the amount of earth scorched by wildfires....
July’s Droughts, Wildfires, Floods Caused Billions in Global Economic Losses: Aon August 10, 2018 Many countries across the globe saw worsening in drought-related and wildfire conditions during July, which have led to hundreds of...
NOAA Expects Sea Level Rise to Produce Record Coastal Flooding This Year June 7, 2018 By Don Jergler Break out the galoshes. The projected increase in high tide flooding in 2018 may be as much as 60 percent...