Articles Tagged with ''hurricane preparedness''

Best emergency response practices ahead of severe weather season

August 17, 2021

Here are three best practices public safety officials should consider when evaluating their organization’s severe weather response capabilities.

Emergency operations center best practices for hurricane season

Patrick Brosnan

June 28, 2021

Understanding and implementing these two best practices will save precious time and successfully lead an organization and communities through a major hurricane.

Florida director of emergency management Kevin Guthrie

Kevin Guthrie takes over as Director of Emergency Management for the State of Florida

June 9, 2021

After staying on during the transition of the previous Director of Emergency Management for the state of Florida, Kevin Guthrie was asked to assume the permanent role.

Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020, says NOAA

January 11, 2021

It was an extraordinary year for weather and climate events in the U.S.: The nation endured an unprecedented 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020. Here’s a recap of the climate and extreme weather events across the U.S.in 2020, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season takes top spot for busiest on record

November 18, 2020

With less than a month remaining in the Atlantic hurricane season, the formation of Subtropical Storm Theta on November 10 and hurricane Iota made the 2020 season the most active on record.

NOAA to enhance weather forecasting and research with artificial intelligence

November 5, 2020

NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS) has signed an agreement with Google to explore the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for enhancing NOAA’s use of satellite and environmental data.

About 2.4 million businesses are in areas most vulnerable to hurricanes

July 17, 2020

As the 2020 hurricane season gets underway, emergency officials pay attention to the growing share (29 percent) of the U.S. population in the nation’s 255 coastline counties, says a US Census Bureau report.

FEMA Announces Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season

June 2, 2020

FEMA released the “COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season” to help emergency managers and public health officials best prepare for disasters, while continuing to respond to and recover from coronavirus (COVID-19).

It's Hurricane Season: Are You Prepared?

Andres Paz Larach

August 19, 2019

Hurricane season is here, and business leaders are once again asking themselves: Is my company prepared? Often, the answer is “no.”

Natural Catastrophes Account for $40 Billion in Economic Losses in First Half of 2019

August 16, 2019

Global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in the first half of 2019 amounted to $44 billion, according to Swiss Re Institute's preliminary sigma estimates.

Ransomware and the propulsion of the extortion economy has rapidly eclipsed into a national priority. Recently, we observed the catastrophic impact of a widescale ransomware attack impacting gas pipelines and raising national gas prices overnight.

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