Record hurricane losses predicted
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A recent spate of storms in the south-eastern US could leave insurers facing their biggest ever hurricane damages bill, an industry body has said.
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Next year's Atlantic hurricane season will again be more active than usual but is unlikely to be a repeat of this year's disaster, a noted storm forecaster said on Friday.
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The Bahamian government has issued a hurricane watch in the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. The watch issued at 11 a.m. EDT means that hurricane conditions of winds of at least 74 mph are possible within 36 hours.
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Parts of the Caribbean are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan within the next 36 hours.
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St. Paul Travelers Cos. Inc. (STA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it expects losses from Hurricane Charley of about $140 million, becoming the latest insurer tallying
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A tropical depression was forecast to bring heavy rains, blustery winds and waves as high as 8 feet as it passes south of Hawaii late Friday.
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Insured losses in the United States from Hurricane Ivan are expected to hit $4 billion to $10 billion US, analysts estimated on Thursday.
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Insurance adjusters and meteorologists are still crunching numbers and analyzing data, but the 2004 U.S. hurricane season will likely go down as one of the most active on record.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Natural disasters will  cost insurers a record $35 billion this year, after hurricanes  lashed the Caribbean and southeastern United States and a  record 10 typhoons soaked Japan in events seen as linked to  global warming, climate experts said on Wednesday.
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Insurers could face their biggest-ever hurricane damages bill following a spate of storms in the Caribbean, an industry body says.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Sept. 6, 2004 - Islanders scrambled to put up storm shutters and stock up on supplies as the fourth major hurricane of the season churned closer to the Caribbean, packing sustained winds of 105 mph.
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A tropical depression could form in  the Atlantic Ocean over the next couple of days, the U.S.  National Hurricane Center said on Monday.
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Hurricane Frances, predicted to hit land 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of NASA&#39;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, could cause catastrophic damage to the space shuttles and spacecraft stored there, meteorologists predict.
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The prospect that a tropical storm and a hurricane &#151; or possibly two hurricanes &#151; could strike Florida on the same day is something meteorologists say they have never seen.
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Fitch Ratings believes that even if the damage caused by Hurricane Charley -- estimated as a $5 billion to $10 billion insurance loss -- comes in at the low end of the estimates, it will rank the storm as the third largest insured US hurricane loss in ...
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Hurricane experts this time are stressing that predictions about the storm's possible movements are rough approximations.
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There will be four to six major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico this season, the National Hurricane Center predicted Monday.