[FloridaRetired2020]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

My area never gets bad weather heather. Needed the rain bad.

Lol, you need to hire a Rain Dancer!

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

My area never gets bad weather heather. Needed the rain bad.

Glad you got some.

[WRnative]

Obviously, additional catastrophic losses in the billions on top of Hurricane Ian losses in the tens of billions will further exacerbate Florida's insurance crisis.



<<Over four dozen coastal buildings from homes to hotels were declared unsafe by county and municipal building inspectors in Volusia County following Hurricane Nicole's landfall south of Vero Beach, Florida, Thursday morning....


"The structural damage along our coastline is unprecedented," Volusia County Manager George Recktenwald said during a press briefing Thursday. "We have never experienced anything like this before...."



AccuWeather released a preliminary estimate on Friday of the total damage and economic loss caused by Nicole, placing the total between $5 billion and $7 billion. While costly, Nicole did not cause the widespread catastrophic damage that Hurricane Ian had caused back in late September. In fact, AccuWeather estimates that total damage and economic loss from Nicole could amount to just 3% of that from Ian.>>


https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurri...s-wake/1277250



If the highlighted sentence is accurate, Accuweather is estimating Hurricane Ian losses at well over $100 billion, much higher than other estimates that I've seen, all of which have been below $100 billion.


Also from the Accuweather article:


<<According to Colorado State University Meteorologist Philip Klotzbach, Nicole is now the only storm in recorded history to make landfall on the state's east coast after Nov. 4. Kate made landfall on Nov. 21, but along the Florida Panhandle near the town of Mexico Beach, Klotzbach noted. Kate is the only hurricane on record to make landfall in the continental United States that late in an Atlantic hurricane season. >>


How long will beach renourishment provide protection to coastal areas as sea level rise accelerates? How long will the federal government foot the bill for beach renourishment?


https://www.floridatoday.com/story/w...le/8322439001/


Hurricane Nicole is imposing a grim reality on those living directly on ocean coasts.


<<
The fragility of Daytona Beach Shores’ buildings, he added, proved an uncomfortable truth: It is going to become much more expensive to live in beachside apartments in Florida. Though the upgrades are sorely needed, those expenses will likely be prohibitive for some current residents, Mr. Main-Baillie said.


“If I own a condo, I know within the next 18 to 24 months, my condo fees are going to double — for sure,” he said. Florida, Mr. Main-Baillie added, has “hundreds if not thousands of buildings that are affected directly by the climate change and the elevation of sea level.”


Clay Ervin, who oversees planning, building and zoning for Volusia County, said he anticipated the fixes to the damaged buildings would be complex and extremely costly. Some, he said, might have to be demolished completely.>>


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/u...le-condos.html

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by WRnative

<<Over four dozen coastal buildings from homes to hotels were declared unsafe by county and municipal building inspectors in Volusia County following Hurricane Nicole's landfall south of Vero Beach, Florida, Thursday morning....


"The structural damage along our coastline is unprecedented," Volusia County Manager George Recktenwald said during a press briefing Thursday. "We have never experienced anything like this before...."



AccuWeather released a preliminary estimate on Friday of the total damage and economic loss caused by Nicole, placing the total between $5 billion and $7 billion. While costly, Nicole did not cause the widespread catastrophic damage that Hurricane Ian had caused back in late September. In fact, AccuWeather estimates that total damage and economic loss from Nicole could amount to just 3% of that from Ian.>>


https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurri...s-wake/1277250



If the highlighted sentence is accurate, Accuweather is estimating Hurricane Ian losses at well over $100 billion, much higher than other estimates that I've seen, all of which have been below $100 billion.

Accuweather's estimate of $180-200 billion of U.S. losses from Hurricane Ian are for the entire U.S., but Florida will incur the bulk of these losses.


<<As a whole, the economic fallout is expected to rival some of the worst hurricanes in U.S. history. AccuWeather Founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers said the total losses caused by Hurricane Ian will amount to between $180 billion and $210 billion in the U.S., putting it around his estimates for Hurricane Sandy (2012) which had total losses of $210 billion, adjusted for inflation.>>


https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurri...-storm/1259765



While total losses always are greater than insured losses, it would be useful if Accuweather provided much more granularity about these estimates.

[WRnative]

Apart from Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, the Accuweather hurricane experts noted the absence of named storms in August.


<<For only the third time on record -- and the first time in 25 years -- there were no named storms during the month of August. The other years where this occurred were 1961 and 1997.

"The abnormally strong high-pressure areas in Europe and the western U.S. during July into August may have been a big influence [for the pause in activity]," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski said. "The monster upper-level high that built over western Europe in July caused a large area of dry, stable air to slide from western Europe southward into the tropics."


This dry, stable air combined with a large area of vertical wind shear across the south-central Atlantic suppressed tropical development during the months of August into September before the pattern broke down in October, Kottlowski added....


"We have had slow seasonal starts before," Kottlowski said, "but not during a strengthening La Niña. So this dry, stable blob is something we will need to study for future tropical outlooks." >>


https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurri...season/1374363


The article says the National Weather Service has established that Hurricane Ian's storm surge reached 15 feet at Fort Myers.


<<Damage survey teams from the National Weather Service (NWS) found the highest water mark from Ian's storm surge at Fort Myers Beach, measuring 15 feet above the normal high-water level, though the waves would have sloshed above that mark. This discovery places Hurricane Ian's storm surge on par with other devastating storms from recent years, including hurricanes Laura and Michael, which ushered in a storm surge of up to 18 feet along the Louisiana coast and 15 feet at Mexico Beach, Florida.>>


Accuweather Founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers estimates total damages and economic loss from Hurricane Ian at between $180 billion and $210 billion.

[LKJ1988]

Dust made it a bust.

[WRnative]

<<In the end, the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was among the most deadly and damaging in modern history. It was the third-most expensive hurricane season to date, according to estimates by the reinsurance company Munich Re, with total losses of about $110 billion.


The 2022 hurricane season exemplifies some of the most dangerous effects of climate change on storms. Climate change is not causing more storms to form in the Atlantic, according to the latest climate research. Instead, a hotter Earth makes it more likely that the storms that do form will become big and powerful.



"You're getting the same number of storms each year, but they're punching harder," says [Jamie] Rhome [, acting director of the National Hurricane Center]."


https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/11409...s-so-dangerous


<<Flooding was the main cause of death and destruction from both Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Fiona. Much of the inland flooding from Ian was caused by extreme rain. "A warming climate holds more moisture, and therefore can produce generally more rain," explains Rhome.>>