Hurricane

As the June 1 start of hurricane season approached last week, Florida lawmakers raced to address a crucial gap in the state’s coastal defenses: property insurance. Insurance markets in the state are in crisis, with premiums skyrocketing and many homeowners unable to find companies willing to insure their homes against…

Tropical Storm Agatha strengthened into a major hurricane Sunday and is expected to soon make landfall on the southern Pacific coast of Mexico. Will the storm emerge from its bout with Mexico and threaten Miami? As of the 7 p.m. Sunday advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Agatha’s winds were…

CLIMATEWIRE | Category 6 hurricanes don’t exist on paper. The wind scale used by meteorologists tops out at Category 5, representing storms with sustained winds of 157 mph or more. But researchers at Florida International University plan to create a Category 6 storm in a lab, mimicking conditions they expect…

Fort Lauderdale, FL – May 19, 2022 — After a busy 2021 Atlantic Basic Hurricane Season that saw BSA Claims Solutions successfully complete thousands of claims in Louisiana and Florida, BSA is poised to continue its growth as one of the largest privately-held Independent Adjusting firms in Florida, said Brian Bradley, President and…

Apr 8, 2022; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; New York Islanders center Brock Nelson (29) skates after the puck against Carolina Hurricanes center Jordan Staal (11) during the second period at PNC Arena. Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-USA TODAY Sports The NHL slate on Tuesday includes a matchup between the Florida Panthers…

This piece originally appeared at Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Patricia Roundtree expected that the hurricane that was about to slam the Florida Panhandle in October 2018 would be a close call, like so many other storms over the years that had skimmed over her neighborhood in…

All week, a trio of wildfires has blazed through more than 34,000 acres in the Florida Panhandle, gorging on downed trees that Hurricane Michael left in its wake more than three years ago. The fires have forced more than 1,100 people from their homes.  The three wildfires, collectively called the…

The wildfires that broke out in the Florida Panhandle in early March 2022 were the nightmare fire managers had feared since the day Hurricane Michael flattened millions of trees there in 2018. It might sound odd – hurricanes helping to fuel wildfires. But Michael’s 160 mph winds left tangles of dead trees…

Veterans at a nursing home were evacuated, joining residents from more than 1,000 homes, as firefighters and emergency workers battled two massive wildfires on Sunday in an area of the Florida Panhandle that was still recovering from destruction caused by a category-5 hurricane more than three years ago. The 8,000-acre…

07 Mar 2022, 01:26 AM IST 1/5 ​Two massive wildfiresFirefighters and emergency workers battled two massive wildfires Sunday in an area of the Florida Panhandle that was still recovering from destruction caused by a Category 5 hurricane more than three years ago. AP 2/5 ​Evacuation of residentsThe 8,000-acre (about 3,237…