Description: How is extreme weather impacting you? If you live in California, you may have been impacted by the atmospheric rivers unleashing record-breaking rain and snow last winter. If you live in Canada or near Canada, you may have been impacted by the wildfires raging last spring. NASA has declared that the summer of 2023 was the hottest on record.

Description: This article highlights some of the key elements included in the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress in July 2023 regarding the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

Description: This report provides statistical summaries of global warming trends using ERA5 data. The report compares temperature data from different time periods and highlights warming trends across air and sea-surface temperatures.

Description: Explore an essay collection from the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute that focuses on how climate change may impact retirement security.

Description: This report evaluates the impact and evolution of societal risk management due to projected future changes in frequency, severity, and variety of weather-related catastrophes.

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of September 2020.

Description: Actuarial Weather Extremes: February 2021

Description: This report examines monthly and daily extremes from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) monthly and daily records and associated flooding, as well as extreme wind events in the Northeast U.S. and tornado and flooding events in the Southeast U.S. These signal the changeover from extreme winter conditions to volatile spring storm conditions which have been found in the U.S.

Description: The earth’s ecosystem appears to be leaving the 10,000-year Holocene epoch that featured a stable environment. For homo sapiens, this stability encouraged a move from hunter/gatherer to farming and urban lifestyles. The new period showcases climate risk, resulting in higher temperatures and more extreme weather. These conditions lead to greater exposures to properties and economies when events like hurricanes and wildfires occur.

Description: On March 5, 2022, an EF-4 tornado hit Iowa and caused 6 fatalities, according to preliminary reports.1 The supercell thunderstorm that produced the destructive tornado also produced damaging wind and hail events. According to the National Weather Service, this tornado was the first EF-4 tornado in Iowa since 2013 and was the second longest tornado path since 1980, with a path length of 69.5 miles.