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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 […]

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 […]

Klotzbach & Gray, the well respected pair of hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University, have published the latest update to their forecast of Atlantic season hurricane activity and landfall strike probability for 2011. They stick with their original predictions of 16 named tropical storms during the 2011 season, with 9 expected to make hurricane status […]

The third named storm of the Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season has formed in the mid-Atlantic but poses no threat to the U.S. coastline. Tropical storm Cindy formed yesterday and is heading away from the U.S., travelling northeast into the open Atlantic where it will only be a threat to shipping interests should it […]

The second named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm season formed late yesterday off the coast of Florida close to Grand Bahama. Tropical Storm Bret was named after a depression was briefly classified as tropical depression 2.

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.