Climate Change Modeling on Cusp of Paradigm Shift February 26, 2015 By Don Jergler In the face of growing interest in climate change impacts, several big catastrophe modelers said they’ve heard from more clients...
Climate Change in 2015 Could be Bigger Than Religion – or Selfie December 31, 2014 By Don Jergler The phrase “climate change” yields roughly 108 million results in a Google search – in the ballpark in terms of...
Insurance Council: No Hurricanes, but Bad Weather Plagued Texas December 3, 2014 As 2014 hurricane season ends the people of Texas can count themselves lucky to have dodged hurricanes for the past...
More Snow Threatening for Western New York as Flooding Risk November 20, 2014 By Brian K. Sullivan and Freeman Klopott Lake-effect snow that killed six people and halted travel across western New York may reach as high as 7 feet...
Attribution Science, Extreme Weather and Why They Matter October 2, 2014 By Don Jergler There is a love-hate relationship with the word “new.” It’s used far too often, but without it as a preface...
New York Requires State Agencies to Consider Extreme Weather September 24, 2014 By Michael Virtanen New York state agencies are required to consider the future likelihood of extreme weather in their decisions on public works...
NOAA Hopes Drones Get Data from Hurricane Edouard September 18, 2014 By Jennifer Kay U.S. government scientists are launching winged drones into Hurricane Edouard, hoping to collect data that could help forecasters understand what...
How a Run-of-the-Mill Hurricane Mutated Into a Superstorm Named Sandy October 28, 2013 By Seth Borenstein It was the moment a run-of-the-mill hurricane mutated into a monster named Sandy. Paradoxically, it was the same time Sandy...
Quiet Atlantic Storm Season Humbles Forecasters September 25, 2013 By Brian K. Sullivan The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a...
Yosemite May Be Harbinger of California’s Wildfire Potential August 27, 2013 By Don Jergler The week-and-a-half-old wildfire in Yosemite is seen by some as a harbinger of what could be a “worst case scenario”...