Typhoon Usagi News

September Economic Loss from Nat Cats $15 Billion: Aon Benfield Report

Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, has released its latest monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report for September, which tallied the economic costs for the month at $15 billion, a figure which Aon Benfield said …

Typhoon Usagi Weakens before Hitting China Coast: AIR Worldwide

According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Severe Typhoon Usagi, the 19th named storm to form in the Northwest Pacific this year, “made landfall near the city of Shanwei (150 kilometers [94 miles] northeast of Hong Kong) in the Chinese …

Typhoon Usagi Heads Toward Taiwan and China: AIR Worldwide

AIR Worldwide’s latest report on Typhoon Usagi describes a “Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 204 km/h [127.5 mph].” It is “expected to strengthen over the coming days and could become the first Category 5 storm of 2013.” …