Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink today announced that the state storm line has been activated to assist Floridians whose homes, businesses or vehicles were damaged by Tropical Storm Claudette as it passed through the Gulf and into the Florida …
Reconstructions of past hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the most active hurricane period in the past was during the “Medieval Climate Anomaly” about a thousand years ago when climate conditions created a “perfect storm” of La Niña-like …
With strong onshore winds fanning the flames of the Lockheed wildfire in Santa Cruz County, officials have ordered mandatory evacuations for Bonny Doon and Swanton for from 2,200 to 2,400 people. Two structures have burned since Wednesday and some 250 …
The keys to holding down insurance premiums on the Alabama coast are strong enforcement of building codes, proper land use and mitigating homes against future disasters, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told an Alabama House of Representatives subcommittee this week. …
The second seismic event to hit Japan in two days occurred off the central coast of the Japanese island of Honshu at 5:15 a.m. local time (20:15 UTC on Monday). Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide said the US Geological …
The Atlantic could get its first named storm of the hurricane season later Wednesday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The basin’s second tropical depression is remaining just below tropical storm strength, the NHC said in its latest report …
An evacuation in Southeast Texas nearly 11 months after Hurricane Ike is being linked to the storm. An engineer determined three apartment buildings in La Marque appear to be twisting on their foundations and risk collapsing. Bill Manning, certified by …
Officials in Portland, Maine say a new flood insurance map of the city harbor being prepared by federal officials would limit development options on all the city’s piers. Portland City Planning Director Penny St. Louis Littell says the map by …
For the fourth year in a row insurance spokesmen will team with meteorologists from the National Weather Service and independent insurance agents to warn Texas coastal residents of the potential dangers of hurricanes. This year’s message is “What We Learned …
Typhoon Morakot wreaked havoc in Taiwan over the weekend, making landfall late on Friday in Taiwan’s Hualien County with sustained winds of 148 km/h (92 mph). “As of Friday, Morakot had generated only 100 mm (4 in) of precipitation in …
