Atlantic Hurricane Season

The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season is in full swing and a storm named Isaac is currently threatening the Gulf Coast. Visit this page where you can read all of our previous Monday morning catch-ups to find any stories you may have missed. Of course you can also use our keyword searchbox on the right to […]

Our latest update on Isaac can be found here.. Tropical storm Isaac continues to make its way through the Caribbean and is currently bearing down on Haiti. Having taken a little longer than originally expected to increase in strength, Isaac has now intensified and has maximum sustained winds of 60mph. Further strengthening is forecast before […]

The ninth named Atlantic tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season formed yesterday as tropical depression 9 became tropical storm Isaac. Tropical storm Isaac is currently headed straight towards the Caribbean Leeward and Windward islands, after which Isaac is forecast to head straight through the Caribbean making a course for the southern tip of […]

The 2012 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season has so far been benign, with no real threat to the U.S. coastline from any major storms and the season thus far causing no impact to the reinsurance or catastrophe bond sector. Sometimes hurricanes can surprise us though and the path of hurricane Gordon over the last […]

As the 2012 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season progresses the chances of storms forming and making landfall is rising, according to the latest forecast update from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Their latest forecast which was published at the end of last week raises the number of tropical storms they predict […]

Tropical storm Debby has proved to be a tricky storm to forecast accurately and continues the unusual start to the 2012 Atlantic tropical storm season. Debby became the fourth named tropical storm on Sunday and as we wrote at the time there was a divergence of opinion in forecast models but the consensus was that […]

The fourth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season has formed in the northern Gulf of Mexico and now looks set to become the second hurricane of the season and a threat to land. Tropical storm Debby is moving slowly through the northern Gulf and has currently seen sustained winds of […]

The first hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic storm season has formed in the middle of the northern Atlantic rather unexpectedly. What was tropical storm Chris, which you could track on our 2012 Atlantic Storm Season page has intensified at an unusually high northern latitude and is now hurricane Chris, the first of this season.

As part of its weather derivative product offering the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) allows interested parties to participate in their market for hurricane futures and options. Users can access exchange traded hurricane futures and options based on the CME Hurricane Index (CHI), a proprietary index originally developed by the ReAdvisory group of Carvill America, Inc. and […]

A new report from modeling, data and analytics firm CoreLogic shows that despite the focus often being on Florida and the Gulf Coast states, the real exposure to hurricanes exists in the New York metropolitan area, including New Jersey and Long Island. Their report which looks at hurricane storm surge risk and damage potential across […]