tropical storm

Weather Services International (WSI) foresee a very active remainder of the 2010 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season. Their latest tropical weather update calls for 18 named storms, 10 hurricanes and 5 intense hurricanes of category 3 or higher. This after a benign start to the season demonstrates the need for insurers and catastrophe bond […]

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season is looking like a benign one this year. So far we’ve had three named storms, one of which reached hurricane strength. We’re now two months into the season and the tropics aren’t yet looking particularly active.

We’ve just launched our 2010 Atlantic tropical storm & hurricane season information page! Every year Artemis provides its readers with a page dedicated to Atlantic storms which can help you to keep up to date with all the latest happenings in the Atlantic basin and Gulf of Mexico as storms develop. This page features tracking […]

You may be forgiven for thinking that hurricane forecasters were being overzealous with their predictions. The high number of storms predicted seemed almost impossible after the quiet season experienced last year and now, over a month in, the season seems benign so far. WSI Corp have revisited their forecast and adjusted it although not as […]

Weather patterns around the globe seem to be in flux so far this year. Severe winters in Europe and the U.S., extremely dry weather in parts of Asia, the coldest Siberian winter in many years and now reports of permafrost melt on the steppes. A lot of this is due to the El Nino weather […]

The Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) research initiative is the first to issue a very early long-range forecast for the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. After a benign 2009 you might think that we’d be in for more of the same next year, however the forecast from TSR is for an above average season with a higher […]

Ida regained her hurricane status over the weekend, strengthening more quickly than was forecast to become a category two hurricane carrying sustained winds of 100mph. Ida narrowly missed the Yucatan peninsula and is now crossing the Gulf of Mexico bound for the U.S. coast somewhere between Pascagoula Mississippi and India Pass Florida.

Tropical Storm Ida became a hurricane earlier today before making landfall on eastern Nicaragua. The storm made landfall with winds of 75mph, has caused structural damage to buildings and is dropping between 15 and 20 inches of rain on parts of the country as it passes over. It will pass over Nicaragua and Honduras before […]

Willis, the global insurance broker, has closed what is being called a ground-breaking index-based hedge for U.S. electric generation and retail company NRG Energy Inc. The transaction offsets the potential financial impact to NRG if a hurricane were to affect its business in the Houston, Texas area. The risk management vehicle used is known as […]

The Atlantic Tropical Storm Season has gone from being quiet to now delivering 5 named storms in less than a month. The fifth named storm of the season is Tropical Storm Erika. Erika is currently to the northeast of the Leeward Islands carrying winds of approx 60mph. She’s expected to move to the northwest of […]