2012 Atlantic hurricane season

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We’ve now seen two tropical storms in the Atlantic basin and the Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially begin until the 1st June, very unusual. One storm, Beryl, made landfall on the Florida coastline giving the State an early warning of what could lie ahead. Meanwhile hurricane Bud threatened the MultiCat Mexico 2009 catastrophe bond, but […]

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 […]

Fitch Ratings have published their annual hurricane season desk reference report, available to Fitch subscribers here, which looks at the health of the re/insurance sector and its ability to cope with the impending 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. The report suggests that sufficient capacity remains in the re/insurance markets to meet the demand for coverage just […]

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 […]