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2019
December
Twenty Years After Storms Anatol, Lothar and Mar...
Twenty years ago, while the planet was getting ready for transitioning to year 2000 and trying to solve the Y2K bug, the (re)insurance…
2018
January
The “Glasgow Hurricane”: A Fifty-year Retrospective
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…
2015
February
The Challenges Around Modeling European Windstor...
In December I wrote about Lothar and Daria, a cluster of windstorms that emphasized the significance of ‘location’ when assessing windstorm…
2014
December
Location, Location, Location: What Makes a Winds...
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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