According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Nesat (known locally as “Pedring”) made landfall in the eastern Isabela and Aurora provinces on the Pacific coast of the Philippines at 18:21 GMT Monday, September 26 with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (195 kilometers per hour), making it a category 2 typhoon. Nesat came ashore exactly two years after Typhoon Ketsana, the most devastating typhoon for the Philippines in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season. “Strong monsoonal flow from the south resulted in significant moisture and more than 400 mm of…
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AIR Estimates Insured Losses from Typhoon Roke at Between JPY 12 billion (USD 150 million) and JPY 46 billion (USD 600 million)
BOSTON, Sept. 22, 2011 -Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses from Typhoon Roke at between JPY 12 billion (USD 150 million) and JPY 46 billion (USD 600 million). Typhoon Roke, the 15th named storm of the 2011 Northwest Pacific typhoon season, made landfall near Japan’s Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture at 2:00 pm local time (05:00 UTC) on September 21. Maximum sustained winds at landfall were 180 km/h, making Roke a strong Category 2 storm. Note that this is the same range announced for Typhoon Talas on September…
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