March U.S. Tornado Activity Likely to Set Record April 6, 2022 By Chad Hemenway It appears there were more tornadoes across the U.S. this year in the month of March than ever before –...
Climate Experts Say Much of Northwest May Stay Drought-Stricken March 8, 2022 Climate experts from Oregon, Washington and Idaho say most of the Northwest remains locked in drought and that the region...
NOAA: Hot is the New U.S. Climate Normal May 6, 2021 By Don Jergler It’s hot, get used to it. That might be the clearest takeaway from a message out from the National Oceanic...
‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf Much Smaller This Year Following Tropical Storms August 5, 2020 By Janet McConnaughey Tropical weather stirred up the Gulf of Mexico, reducing this year’s dead zone off Louisiana’s coast to the third-smallest ever...
‘Rivers in the Sky’ Causing Billions in Flood Damage in U.S. February 12, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan Climate change is spurring a new, deep dive into a complex, little-studied weather system blamed for creating billions of dollars...
2019 Natural Hazard Report Highlights Long Tail of Financial Recovery February 4, 2020 By Dr. Frank Nothaft, Chief Economist This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Preparing for a catastrophe is a science. This science involves...
U.S. Offers $30 Million in Grants to Help Coastal Areas Mitigate Flooding, Rising Seas November 22, 2019 The U.S. government’s oceans and waterways agency will provide $30 million to improve coastal resilience, officials said, aiming to reduce...
The United States Saw 11 Natural Disaster Events That Exceeded $1 Billion in Damage During 2018 February 6, 2019 By Dr. Howard Botts, Chief Scientist, Insurance and Spatial Solutions, CoreLogic This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. When it comes to natural disasters, 2018 was an eventful...
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...
Hawaii, Central Pacific Could See Handful of Hurricanes This Season May 25, 2018 The Central Pacific could see anywhere from three to six hurricanes over the next six months, forecasters predicted Wednesday. That...