Even as the internet is full of Hurricane Harvey damage pictures, another storm is quickly approaching Florida from the eastern Atlantic. Tropical Storm Irma – soon to be Hurricane Irma – is projected to be a major storm and may make landfall along Florida’s coastline. The time is now to stop looking at flood pictures
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Hurricane Danny – Property Insurance Claims on the Horizon
As we watch Hurricane Danny approach the Gulf, it is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since Hurricane Charlie and three other storms caused massive damage and property insurance claims throughout Central Florida. Although the passage of time makes it easy to think that such storm damage is unlikely to happen again, we…
Official Storm Names for 2014 Hurricane Season – Hopefully We Won’t Need Them!
Every year the National Hurricane Center develops a list of names to apply to possible tropical storms or hurricanes during the coming storm season. Believe it or not, there is an actual committee of the World Meteorological Organization which gets together and updates this list every year. (It would seem that they could just create…
National Hurricane Center Changing Definition for Hurricane Warnings
Last fall, Hurricane Sandy caused devastating damage to the eastern seaboard – yet the National Hurricane Center did not issue any sort of hurricane warning to the people north of North Carolina. It is not that the National Hurricane Center was negligent in any way, it is just that by the time Sandy reached the…