forecast

Tropical Storm Risk, a research group backed by Aon Benfield, RSA and Crawford & Company, have stuck with their prediction for an above normal activity Atlantic hurricane season in 2011 and have slightly increased their prediction for the number of storms expected to form. Their last prediction (from April) can be found here, and our […]

The latest 2011 hurricane prediction and forecast for Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane activity has been published by the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center – a division of the U.S. National Weather Service. We thought it would be interesting to compare this most recent forecast of Atlantic hurricane activity with those we’ve covered previously.

Colorado State University have just issued their updated 2011 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season forecast, so in the interest of fairness (as we’ve already covered Accuweather’s and Tropical Storm Risk’s) here are the details.

U.S. weather forecaster Accuweather, have issued their forecast for the 2011 U.S. Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season. Like previous forecast we’ve published (such as Klotzbach and Gray’s or Tropical Storm Risks), Accuweather predict an active season with many storms. So a similar season to 2010? Possibly, but all forecasters are suggesting to expect more […]

Twelve Capital, an investment manager with a specialism in insurance-linked securities investments have today published the first issue of a new periodical publication which gives their perspectives on issues pertinent to their investment clients. The publication will also be of interest to anyone involved in the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond sectors.

The early forecasts for the 2011 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season are predicting another active year ahead for storm formation and landfall risks. A week ago we wrote about the forecast from Tropical Storm Risk. Here we cover the early forecast from Colorado State Universities Tropical Meteorology Project.

An early forecast of the long range outlook for the 2011 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season has been published by Tropical Storm Risk. They’re the first of the forecasters we follow to publish a long range outlook for the Atlantic storm basin for 2011.

The European windstorm season begins in December and runs for four months (roughly), but Lloyd’s of London says no one really ever knows what to expect from it. Unlike the Atlantic storm season, European windstorms are difficult to forecast and the season as a whole is almost impossible to forecast with any degree of accuracy […]

The UK’s Met Office says that its scientists have made a major breakthrough in forcasting the number of Atlantic tropical storms. The Decadal Climate Prediction System (DePreSys), developed at the Met Office is said to predict storms years ahead of the current season.

The U.S. Climate Prediction Center has issued an update on their El Niño and La Niña forecast. We’ve been experiencing La Niña conditions around the world for a few months and these conditions affect weather patterns, rainfall and hurricanes or storms around the world.