Atlantic Hurricane Season

The last seven days saw another busy week of news and insight for the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market here on Artemis. Also last week, the Atlantic hurricane season has now officially begun and you can follow its development on our dedicated 2012 Hurricane Season page. Here are the ten articles which received the […]

The 1st of June marks the official start of the Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season. The 2012 season though has already begun when a couple of weeks ago when  a very early tropical storm Alberto formed on the 19th May. Alberto made little impact but as if providing a warning approached the U.S. coastline […]

The 2012 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season is already proving to be unusual and it hasn’t officially started yet. The hurricane season officially begins on the 1st of June and yet currently in the Atlantic sub-tropical storm Beryl is making a steady path towards the U.S. coastline as the second tropical storm of the […]

Tropical Storm Risk, the climatological research group backed by Aon Benfield, RSA and Crawford & Company, has published their final pre-season forecast of activity for the forthcoming 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Back in April we wrote about their earlier forecast which suggested activity in the Atlantic in 2012 would be below average, today their latest […]

The 2012 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season officially begins on the 1st June and runs to the end of November. Sometimes the tropics provide us with a surprise storm outside of those generally accepted seasonal bounds and 2012 is one of those years. Tropical storm Alberto formed over the weekend off the east coast […]

Tropical Storm Risk, a research group backed by Aon Benfield, RSA and Crawford & Company, has published its April forecast for the forthcoming 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Based on climate signals they suggest that the 2012 hurricane season will see activity levels slightly below average and significantly below what we’ve seen in recent years.

Right on schedule Colorado State University hurricane forecasters Klotzbach & Gray have published their first proper forecast for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. They released a pre-forecast discussion a few weeks ago in which they predicted the forecast would be for a below average season, now they have released their full forecast along with numbers […]

Colorado State University hurricane forecasters Klotzbach & Gray have published a discussion of the outlook for Atlantic basin hurricane activity during the 2012 season which is fast approaching. In a statement which the re/insurance industry will be encouraged by they forecast that the 2012 Atlantic basin hurricane season will see below average activity compared with […]

Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield published their review of the 2011 global catastrophes and re/insured losses that resulted from them yesterday. We’ve covered this in detail in recent weeks (here, here and here) so won’t go into the loss experience of 2011 again. The report does contain one very interesting piece of information on the correlation […]

Another Atlantic tropical storm & hurricane season comes to an end. The 2011 hurricane season has been one of the most active on record as far as storm formation in the Atlantic basin goes, but one of the lower impact seasons as far as U.S. landfalling storms and actual losses goes. That continues the trend […]