March 19, 2024
The names Isha, Babet, and Henk will all be familiar to Britons, but not because they belong to people — they are some of the most destructive storms that have swept through the UK in the past year. In an …
December 29, 2022
This year will be the warmest year on record for the UK, according to the Met Office. The annual average temperature across Britain exceeded the previous high set in 2014, when the average was 9.88C, provisional data from the national …
February 17, 2022
Britain’s Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) an hour are set to hit the country on Friday. The weather service said the most dangerous winds …
February 5, 2016
The initial estimate of the insured property market loss for UK flood damage during the period from Dec. 25, 2015 to Jan. 14, is £526 million ($767.7 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data. …
December 8, 2015
Commenting on the impact of Storm Desmond, Mohammad Khan, general insurance leader at PwC UK, stated that the accounting firm’s “current estimate of the damage caused by Storm Desmond is £400 million – £500 million [$600 – $750.2 million] with …