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Twenty Years After Storms Anatol, Lothar and Mar...
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Twenty years ago, while the planet was getting ready for transitioning to year 2000 and trying to solve the Y2K bug, the (re)insurance…
The “Glasgow Hurricane”: A Fifty-year Retrospective
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In the early hours of Monday, January 15, 1968, cyclone “Low Q” charged across northern U.K. and smashed the densely populated Central Belt of…
The Challenges Around Modeling European Windstor...
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In December I wrote about Lothar and Daria, a cluster of windstorms that emphasized the significance of ‘location’ when assessing windstorm…
Location, Location, Location: What Makes a Winds...
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While wind speed can indicate a storm’s damageability, two storms with similar peak wind speeds can cause vastly different levels of damage if…
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