The One-Two Punch

With Helene still visible in the rear-view mirror and communities from Florida to Virginia still without power, water and connectivity, this week’s Milton delivered more misery and damage to the southeast. Two in the space of a couple of weeks must be unprecedented,...

Earthquake Weather?

Last week, I was sitting with my friend Andy having coffee when that unmistakable California special hit. By earthquake standards, it was nothing to write home about, a 4.7 with its epicenter about five miles due south of us, halfway between Malibu and Thousand Oaks....

Twisters

In the summer of 1996, a movie about storm researchers became a hit movie: Twister. It followed a group of storm chasing meteorologists in central Oklahoma as they dodged, sometimes unsuccessfully, a line of storms in a single day. The production crew went as far as...

Atlantic Hurricane Season

Last week, the second named storm of the 2024 season – Beryl – made landfall with category 5 force, visiting Jamaica and Cancun, and eventually the south Texas coast before losing steam as it makes its way through the middle of the United States. The chaos in a...

Environmental Data Use Cases: Hurricane Season

While we are known for our demographic data, our geographic based data, like our suite of environmental data, has been trusted for many years by our clients. A wide range of applications benefit from these databases, including insurance underwriting, retail...

Flooding During a Drought?

The last few weeks in Southern California have been, well, a bit soggy. To those who know the area, it is either Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood or a 1970’s cheesy Leslie Nielson disaster movie. There is nothing between the two extremes as the occasional errant summer...