“Back to the drawing board”: Florida’s insurance crisis may demand extreme solutions
While the Southeast is still shellshocked from Hurricane Helene and Florida is bracing for Hurricane Milton, Americans nationwide are starting to understand how extreme extreme weather can be.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season would be historic. With Hurricane Beryl reaching category five status within the first few days of the season, homeowners braced for more — but then there was nothing. The Saharan Air Layer, plumes of dust that annually travel from the Sahara Desert and across the Atlantic, created a pause in tropical cyclone formation.