As Harvey Nears, Central Texas Coast Shuts Down August 25, 2017 The National Hurricane Center has called off the hurricane watch from Port Mansfield, Texas, south to the mouth of the...
How to Bring Coastal Community Stakeholders into Disaster Planning November 30, 2016 Recognizing that coastal storms can cause surges, sea-level rise and cyclone winds that devastate communities, emergency management experts in a...
Hurricane Newton Hits Mexico with Threat of Flash Floods, Mud Slides September 6, 2016 By Kelly Gilblom Hurricane Newton made landfall Tuesday morning in northwest Mexico and will probably cause damage from heavy rain. Cabo San Lucas,...
Northeast Coast Spared Hermine’s Worst September 5, 2016 By Laila Kearney Atlantic storm Hermine drifted north on Monday off the U.S. East Coast, still packing near-hurricane strength winds but far enough...
Typhoon Nepartak Lashes Taiwan, to Weaken Before Hitting China July 8, 2016 Super typhoon Nepartak hit Taiwan on Friday, driving thousands of people from their homes, disrupting power supply and forcing the...
Taiwan Readies for Typhoon Nepartak; AIR Worldwide Comments July 7, 2016 By Yu-Huay Sun Taiwan told schools and offices along its eastern coast to close early Thursday as Typhoon Nepartak threatens to unleash strong...
UPDATE: Chapala Threatens Yemen with Flooding, High Winds: AccuWeather November 3, 2015 The AccuWeather Global Weather Center has reported that “Yemen is bracing for impacts from a small, but currently powerful Tropical...
Updated AIR Hurricane Model for U.S. Features Storm Surge Module June 29, 2015 Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its hurricane model for the U.S. to help insurers and reinsurers better...
Number of US Homes at Risk of Storm Surge Damage in 2015 Tops 6.6 Million June 8, 2015 By Dr. Thomas Jeffery This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Total Reconstruction Cost Value of Homes is Nearly $1.5 Trillion...
Report: More Than 6.6M Atlantic and Gulf Coast Homes at Risk of Storm Surge June 4, 2015 By Don Jergler More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a...