tropical cyclone

The Australian government has launched a consultation process to see how access to insurance in  cyclone prone regions in the north can be eased, with measures such as a government backed catastrophe reinsurance pool or mutual insurer to be assessed.

Cyclone Marcia has undergone a period of rapid intensification as it approaches the Queensland, Australia coastline, with forecasters now predicting a Category 5 landfall with wind gusts as high as 180mph anticipated.

The U.S. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) has announced plans to launch a storm surge watch and warnings graphic, the next phase following their Potential Storm Surge Flooding Map that launched at the start of the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Australia could be at risk of more severe flooding this year as experts predict an above average tropical cyclone season for the region. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology posted their tropical cyclone season outlook recently and are urging people to prepare for the rainy season as climate models point to another La Niña season, although […]

Risk modeller AIR Worldwide have announced the release of a new tropical cyclone model for Central America. The new model covers Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama offering modelling technology for the effects of both wind and precipitation induced flooding which are the two main causes of damage from tropical storms […]