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Hurricane Irene continues to make her way across the Caribbean showing no sign of decreasing in size or strength. In fact just the opposite, hurricane Irene looks set to intensify further and grow in size as she crosses the warm waters of the northern Caribbean heading straight for the Turks & Caicos islands and the […]

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a non-profit multi-country risk pooling facility providing parametric hurricane and earthquake cover to Caribbean countries, has announced that it is making its Real-Time Forecasting System available to all of its members.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), the non-profit multi-country risk pool for the Caribbean, has since its launch in 2007 paid out $32,179,470 to its members after disasters struck. The facility counts sixteen Caribbean countries as members and seven of those members have received a payout in the four years the facility has operated […]

We’ve had a great 2010 here at Artemis and we thought we’d share some figures with you that we are proud of. As some of you will know Steve Evans spent the first half of 2010 in Asia travelling, consulting and working on a number of risk related projects, so Artemis took a bit of […]

So it’s the 30th of November, the final day of the 2010 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season, so time to take a brief look back at the season just gone. Despite being extremely active, with 19 named storms, the 2010 hurricane season will be best known for the lack of U.S. mainland impact.

The 2010 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season has certainly proved to be as active as the forecasts suggested it would be even without the volume of landfalling events that were forecast. We’re currently up to 19 names storms this year and some forecasters are suggesting that we can expect more.