For a few minutes last Wednesday, there weren’t any hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons or tropical storms anywhere in the world. The respite didn’t last long. Thursday morning, the U.S. Navy and Air Force’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, along with the Indian …
Hong Kong maintained its third- highest storm signal in the wake of Typhoon Usagi, which canceled hundreds of flights and stranded travelers before making landfall in southern China. The city’s financial markets, schools and offices may delay opening this morning. …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, after rapidly dissipating on Monday night and being downgraded to a remnant tropical low, Manuel reformed and strengthened back to hurricane intensity on Wednesday. The re-formation was aided by a reduction in wind …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Utor slammed into the northern Philippine island of Luzon today at approximately 3:00 pm local time (7:00 UTC) with 10-minute sustained winds of 175 km/h (109 mph, JMA), gusts of up to …
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced that Peak Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (Peak Re), a reinsurer headquartered in Hong Kong focusing primarily on the Asia-Pacific market, has selected AIR’s catastrophe modeling solutions to manage its catastrophe risk. “Catastrophes are a …