tropical storm Fiona 2022

A hurricane warning has now been issued for Bermuda as major hurricane Fiona approaches the island, with conditions set to deteriorate as the storm passes just to the west.

Hurricane Fiona’s impacts in the Caribbean are expected to be a manageable insurance and perhaps reinsurance loss scenario, but the duration of business interruption related to the storm could drive insured losses higher, AM Best has said.

Hurricane Fiona has intensified since battering Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and has now become the first major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic season. The Turks & Caicos Islands are now in its path and facing a damaging blow from the storm.

Hurricane Fiona has impacted Puerto Rico heavily with the island experiencing a historic rainfall event, as two-foot of rains are forecast from the storm, with locally maximum amounts of up to 30 inches warned.

With recent forecast model runs it appears the uncertainty over where tropical storm Fiona heads over the next week has risen, with more models showing a closer path to the United States, and fewer preferring the track through the Atlantic near Bermuda.

Tropical storm Fiona has now formed in the Atlantic, the sixth named storm of this still relatively quiet 2022 hurricane season, with a path that will take the storm through the Caribbean islands, but some uncertainty in the cone over the eventual direction storm Fiona will choose to take.