Atlantic Hurricane Season Remains Most Tranquil Since 1941 September 4, 2026 By Brian K. Sullivan Dry air, a stable atmosphere and storm ripping wind shear are suppressing every system that emerges, fulfilling predictions that a...
Viewpoint: When Andrew Returns – A Look Back at a Pivotal Insurance Event August 25, 2026 By David Delaney At five o’clock on the morning of August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew came ashore near Homestead, Florida, as a Category...
NOAA Maintains Forecast for Below-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season August 7, 2026 Nearly halfway through the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA’s prediction of below-normal activity in the Atlantic basin remains unchanged. Today,...
Why El Niño’s Promise of Quieter Hurricane Season May Not Be Good News for Insurers July 27, 2026 By Niket Nishant, Ashitha Shivaprasad and Manya Saini For insurers, the periodic El Niño climate phenomenon has traditionally lowered the risk of costly Atlantic hurricanes, but decades of...
20 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Are Insurers Ready for a Different $100B Disaster? July 14, 2026 By Jessica Boyd and Daniel Bannister On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of...
CSU Lowers Atlantic Hurricane Forecast to ‘Well Below Normal’ July 9, 2026 By Chad Hemenway Thanks to a strengthening El Nino, the rest of the Atlantic hurricane season will be well below normal, said researchers...
Viewpoint: Why Florida Property Insurance Rates Might (and Might Not) Keep Falling June 30, 2026 By John Rollins Editor’s note: As some national news reports continue to claim that Florida’s property insurance crisis has endured and premiums keep...
CSU Adjusts Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Due to Emerging El Nino June 10, 2026 By Ezra Amacher The growing likelihood of an El Nino to emerge this summer has led Colorado State University hurricane researchers to slightly...
Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420 Billion Globally June 3, 2026 By Laura Millan The value of uninsured natural-catastrophe losses rose more than 7% globally last year to $424 billion, with North America the...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Milder Than Normal Thanks to El Nino May 26, 2026 By Seth Borenstein A developing El Nino that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but...