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The changing weather patterns in Nebraska
Kim Roberts, a meteorologist with Guy “It’s important knowing the relationship
Carpenter and Company, has the job of between a warmer climate and weather
studying what may be one of the more because warmer weather means more
important issues of our time. Roberts is moisture is available. With the average
tracking changing trends in the global temperature rising even one degree Celsius
climate and how it may affect local weather. you're talking a lot of extra water vapor in
Guy Carpenter and Company represents LARM the atmosphere which results in instability
in our n our weather,” Roberts said.
a
as a s a reinsurance intermediary to help i
mitigate risk by securing additional nancial Roberts said that most of the Arctic Ocean
protection from the global commercial became completely wide open in 2017. Since
insurance market. the area is no longer ice covered, the dark
“The more we can learn about weather the ocean with only minimal ice thickness
better we can manage exposures to the absorbs a lot of energy from the sun which
different types of catastrophic raises the temperature in that area of the
weather-related perils. If we’re on track to earth.
have more hurricanes or other severe weather
“We’re in for some volatile weather in the near future.” meteorologist Kim Roberts.
Flood waters on U.S. Highway 81 south
of Platte Center, Nebraska in May, 2019
