Climate change is not a new phenomenon. For thousands of years, cyclical climate change has created and ended ice ages and reshaped oceans into deserts. But today’s climate change – the man-made environmental changes that have occurred over the past 100 years – is the...
Insurers can take steps to ensure their teams are equipped to handle the next major catastrophe now, before disaster hits. This means crafting guidelines and processes that will help you respond in real time to recover operations and maintain efficiency during...
Whipping winds, pounding rains, swirling clouds, rising waters – the relentless power of nature when hurricanes hit is equal parts awe-inspiring and terrifying. For insurers, these storms mean an all-hands-on-deck response to help clients prepare for potential...
As Hurricane Juliette swirls harmlessly in the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast and Dorian continues to batter the East Coast, you may wonder why one side of the U.S. is more hurricane-prone than the other. The answer points to the connectivity of weather systems that...
Athenium Analytics has released three new product enhancements in August across our suite of weather risk analytics products: gust wind speeds at altitude in GaugeConstruction, hail models for roof replacement cost estimates in Gauge, and tornadic storm alerts in...
Written by Jonathan Fairman, PhD – Senior Scientist, Meteorology Hurricane Barry forecast verification & post-event storm data Hurricane Barry made landfall over Marsh Island and Intracoastal City, Louisiana on July 13, 2019, as a category one storm –...
