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AIR Worldwide : Typhoon Roke headed for Japan
As Typhoon Roke advances towards central and western Japan, more than a million people have been evacuated. Formed on September 10, Roke is the...
AIR Worldwide : revises its industry loss estimates for Hurricane Irene
AIR Worldwide has revised its industry insured loss estimates for Hurricane Irene’s impact in the Bahamas to between USD 200 million and USD 400...
AIR Worldwide : European wind and earthquake catastrophe models updated
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) released updates to its Extratropical Cyclone and Earthquake Models for Europe. Both models were significantly expanded to...
AIR Worldwide : estimates losses from tropical storm Talas
Tropical Storm Talas is the season’s 12th named storm, the seventh severe tropical storm and the fifth typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season....
AIR Worldwide : slower winds help fire-fighters battle Texas wildfires
Since the beginning of 2011 fire crews have fought nearly 19,000 wildfires so far in the state of Texas alone. This represents 3.6 million...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Lee threatens most of the Gulf Coast
Tropical Depression 13 has strengthened to Tropical Storm Lee. Lee is currently 200 miles southeast of Cameron, Louisiana, and 210 miles southwest of the...
AIR Worldwide : Typhoon Talas heads for Japan
Typhoon Talas formed on August 25 as the Japan Meteorological Agency’s (JMA) 12th named storm of the 2011 Northwest Pacific typhoon season. The typhoon...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Nanmadol poised for landfall in China
Tropical Storm Nanmadol is moving slowly at about 3.2 km/h across the Taiwan Strait toward a landfall in China’s Fujian province sometime in the...
AIR Worldwide : estimates insured losses from Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene caused estimated insured losses between USD 3 billion and USD 6 billion to onshore properties in the US. These estimates from modelling...
Irene : weakens to Tropical Storm, makes landfall on New York’s Coney Island
Irene deviated slightly from the NHC forecast track yesterday, taking a slight westward shift before resuming its north-northeast direction. This brought the center of...
Hurricane Irene : strengthens to category 2 and moves towards the South-Eastern Bahamas
Just before 8pm last night, Hurricane Irene achieved Category 2 strength, buoyed by low wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures. According to the...
Typhoon Muifa expected to hit mainland China this weekend
Typhoon Muifa is tracking across the Pacific Ocean, en route to mainland China, after delivering heavy rain to the Philippines Tuesday and Wednesday. Muifa...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Emily set to hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Tropical Storm Emily is expected to hit the island of Hispaniola—shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic—with heavy rain and 50-mph winds this afternoon....
US : tropical storm Don makes landfall in Texas
Tropical Storm Don, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has made landfall near Baffin Bay, Texas according to modelling firm AIR...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Don advances towards Texas coast and oil platforms
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Don is moving across the southern Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast near Corpus...
AIR Worldwide : expands suite of Atlantic Basinwide Tropical Cyclone models
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released the Central America tropical cyclone model. The new model covers Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,...
AIR Worldwide : Tropical Storm Bret Heads to sea
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, the second named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Bret, formed off the coast...
AIR Worldwide : Typhoon Ma-On nears Japan
According to catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide, with winds gusting to 157 kilometres per hour (98 miles per hour), Category 2 Typhoon Ma-On (local...
Hurricane : Beatriz makes landfall, bringing heavy rains to Mexico’s Pacific coast
Beatriz, the second storm of the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season, has strengthened to hurricane status after it has formed off the coast of South-western...
AIR Worldwide : 6.0 Earthquake Strikes the Quake-Weary New Zealand City of Christchurch
Monday 13 June 2011, Christchurch New Zealand was shaken by a series of strong tremors. The city is still recovering from two previous earthquakes...
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