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The changing weather patterns in Nebraska
Kim Roberts, a meteorologist with Guy the risks are covered adequately,” Roberts
Carpenter and Company, has the job of said recently from her office in Colorado.
studying what may be one of the more She has been particularly interested in the
important issues of our time. Roberts is recent rising of world temperatures.
tracking changing trends in the global “
“It’s important knowing the relationship
climate and how it may affect local weather. between a warmer climate and weather
Guy Carpenter and Company represents LARM because warmer weather means more
a
as a s a reinsurance intermediary to help moisture is available. With the average
mitigate risk by securing additional nancial temperature rising even one degree Celsius
protection from the global commercial you're talking a lot of extra water vapor in
insurance market. the atmosphere which results in instability
“The more we can learn about weather the i
in our n our weather,” Roberts said.
better we can manage exposures to the Roberts said that most of the Arctic Ocean
different types of catastrophic became completely wide open in 2017. Since
weather-related perils. If we’re on track to the area is no longer ice covered, the dark
have more hurricanes or other severe weather ocean with only minimal ice thickness
then, like every other factor an insurance absorbs a lot of energy from the sun which
company looks at, we need to determine if raises the temperature in that area of the
earth.
“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
