tropical storm

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 fifth named tropical storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season has formed in the eastern Caribbean sea. Tropical storm Emily is moving westward carrying winds of 40mph but is forecast to strengthen as the storm makes its way across the Caribbean.

The fourth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season has formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico and is now making its way towards the Texas coast. Tropical storm Don formed late yesterday and is heading on a west-northwest track which should bring it to the Texas coast in 40 to […]

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 […]

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.

Hurricanes are capable of inflicting extremely large amounts of damage when they make landfall on highly populated, urbanised regions of the U.S. coastline. Reinsurers have long had a fear of a direct hit on Miami from a major hurricane, an event which could cause over $100 billion worth of damage. The uncertain nature of the […]

Each year we provide a page containing information and resources to help you track the progress of the Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season. We’ve just launched our page for this year and you can find it here, or by clicking on the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season graphic which is on the right hand side […]

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.