July 27th, 2010
Posted at 1:00 AM ET
Hurricane Alex: Hurricane Alex made landfall near Soto La Marina and La Pesca in Mexico’s Tamaulipas State at around 02:00 UTC on July 1 (22:00 on June 30 local time) with sustained winds of around 105 mph (165 kmph), equivalent to a category 2 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC said Alex was the first hurricane to reach category 2 status in June in the Atlantic since Hurricane Alma in 1966. At landfall, the NHC said hurricane-force winds extended 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the center of the storm while tropical storm-force winds extended 205 miles (335 kilometers), the NHC said. Early estimates of insured losses suggest the insurance industry could payout between USD100 million and USD200 million for the damage caused by Alex.
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Floods in Southeast France: Heavy rain on June 15-16 has triggered severe flash floods in southeastern France, killing at least 22 people according to the latest estimates from local authorities. The damage and disruption has been widespread, with hundreds of homes inundated and thousands reported to be without electricity or phone lines. Officials said around 10 people remain missing and they fear the death toll could rise. The southeastern province of Alpes Cote d’Azur has been particularly badly affected, with officials in the Var department saying that damage is severe. Reports said that between 1,500 and 2,500 people were forced to evacuate their homes and spend the night in schools or other temporary shelters, and some 104,000 houses remain without electricity in the aftermath of the flooding.
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Tagged: CAT-i, Catastrophe, Earthquake, hurricane, Hurricanes, Instrat, nat cat, tropical cyclone
July 23rd, 2010
Posted at 9:43 AM ET
Tropical Storm Bonnie, the second named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, developed on July 22 and is currently located approximately 155 miles (250 kilometers) southeast of Miami in Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Bonnie packs sustained winds of around 40 mph (65 kmph). The storm is traveling in a west-northwest direction and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours as the storm slightly strengthens. The NHC said tropical storm-force winds extend 85 miles (150 kilometers) from the center of the storm.
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Tagged: CAT-i, Instrat, nat cat, tropical cyclone, Windstorm
July 15th, 2010
Posted at 12:00 AM ET
1. Introduction
This is an update of the predictions of the annual number of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the western North Pacific (WNP) for 2010 that we issued on April 26, 2010. These updates are made based on new information for the months of April and May 2010.
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Tagged: cgacic, El Nino, GCACIC, nat cat, Property, tropical cyclone, typhoons, Windstorm
July 5th, 2010
Posted at 1:00 AM ET
The Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre (GCACIC), a joint initiative of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the leading global risk and reinsurance specialist, and the City University of Hong Kong, has published a new paper on tropical cyclone activity variations between 1965 and 2005 in the South China Sea region. The report identifies trends over the years and decades during this period, and the factors that drove these variations.
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Tagged: China, El Nino, GCACIC, Hurricanes, nat cat, tropical cyclone, Windstorm
June 30th, 2010
Posted at 1:00 AM ET
The Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre (GCACIC) issued forecasts in December of 2009 of the annual number of tropical cyclones affecting the Australian region. A comparison of the actual number of storms that occurred with the forecasts, verifies that eight tropical storms were forecast in the entire Australian region and eight tropical cyclones occurred during the season. Regarding the Western Australia region, five tropical cyclones were forecast and four actually occurred. The GCACIC forecast correctly predicted the number of tropical cyclones in the Australian region and only slightly over-estimated the tropical storm number in the Western Australia region.
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Tagged: Australia, GCACIC, nat cat, tropical cyclone, Windstorm
June 29th, 2010
Posted at 3:45 PM ET
Tropical Storm Alex is located approximately 460 miles (735 kilometers) southeast of Brownsville in Texas and packs sustained winds of around 70 mph (110 kmph), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Alex is currently traveling in a north-northwest direction and a turn towards the northwest is forecast for later today before shifting to the west-northwest tomorrow. The NHC said Alex is expected to strengthen over the next 48 hours and become the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. If Alex follows its forecast path, the NHC said the storm will make landfall just south of the Texas/Mexico border on July 1. The NHC said tropical storm-force winds extend 105 miles (165 kilometers) from the center of the storm.
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Tagged: CAT-i, Instrat, Instrat nat cat, Mexico, tropical cyclone, Windstorm
June 28th, 2010
Posted at 8:50 AM ET
Tropical Storm Alex became the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season when it developed on June 25. Alex subsequently moved across Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico as a tropical storm on June 26/27, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to the region. Alex has since re-emerged in the southern Gulf of Mexico and is currently located approximately 75 miles (115 kilometers) west of Campeche in Mexico with sustained winds of around 50 mph (85 kmph), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm is traveling in a northwest direction and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 48 hours as the storm strengthens. The NHC said tropical storm-force winds extend 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the center of the storm.
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Tagged: CAT-i, Instrat, Instrat nat cat, Mexico, tropical cyclone, Windstorm
June 7th, 2010
Posted at 1:00 AM ET
A briefing on landfalling tropical cyclones in the South China and Korea/Japan regions issued today by Guy Carpenter’s Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre (GCACIC), a joint initiative of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, and the City University of Hong Kong, concludes that activity across both regions could be higher than normal in 2010.
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Tagged: Asia Pac, GCACIC, Hurricanes, nat cat, tropical cyclone, Windstorm
May 5th, 2010
Posted at 1:00 AM ET
1. Introduction
Real-time predictions of the annual number of tropical cyclones affecting the western North Pacific and the South China Sea were first issued in 2000 by the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and annually thereafter until 2008 when such predictions were issued by the Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, also at CityU. Verifications of the predictions for the past ten years have shown that the predictions are mostly correct within the error bars.
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Tagged: El Nino, GCACIC, nat cat, tropical cyclone, typhoons, Windstorm
February 11th, 2010
Posted at 11:00 AM ET
The Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Center (GCACIC), a joint initiative of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the leading global risk and reinsurance specialist, and the City University of Hong Kong, has published a report that discusses tropical cyclone activity in the Western North Pacific (WNP) in 2009 and the success of the Center’s earlier predictions for the typhoon season.
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Tagged: Catastrophe, GCACIC, Hurricanes, tropical cyclone
