April 15, 2025
Europe experienced the hottest year on record in 2024, as climate change combined with a strong El Niño to generate a series of extreme weather events and force glaciers into retreat. Half the continent reported new heat records in 2024 …
January 31, 2025
Flooding caused by Storm Herminia forced the evacuation of thousands of people in northwest France, while hundreds of homes remain without power. Back-to-back storms — Éowyn followed by Herminia — have triggered the worst flooding in 40 years in parts …
November 25, 2024
Storm Bert left a trail of disruption across the UK, with hundreds of flood warnings in place for Wales and the west of England. Five people were reported to have died by local media, after the storm brought heavy rain …
February 25, 2022
Insured losses due to wind from Winter Storms Dudley/Ylenia and Eunice/Zeynep will range between €3 billion and €5 billion (US$2.2 billion-$5.6 billion), the majority of which are expected in Germany, UK, and the Netherlands, according to Verisk Extreme Event Solutions …
February 18, 2022
An Atlantic storm battered Britain and Ireland on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least one person, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London’s O2 arena. Storm …
February 17, 2022
Britain’s Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) an hour are set to hit the country on Friday. The weather service said the most dangerous winds …
February 16, 2022
Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines. Weather forecasters in the UK, France and Germany warned high-speed winds …
May 16, 2019
Swimmers at the Lusshardtsee lake about 60 miles south of Frankfurt in Germany thought they’d found respite from the blazing sun one Sunday afternoon last summer. Unknown to them, however, sweltering ground temperatures were forcing a column of moist air …
January 3, 2019
The final estimate of insured property losses from Europe’s Extratropical Cyclone Burglind, also known as Eleanor, have risen to €756 million ($862.1 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data. PERILS’ fourth and final …
October 5, 2018
The final insured property market losses for Extratropical Cyclone Xavier, based on loss data collected from affected insurers, is €324 million ($372.5 million), according to estimates issued by PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data. This …