While carriers and shippers can’t change the weather, they can learn to work with it – or at least around it. That’s where the expertise of a company like AccuWeather comes in handy.
Now that hurricane season has officially begun, Riskpulse presented their 2018 hurricane season outlook, giving participants a front-row seat to their analysis of this year’s prospects.
ts best performance in year-over-year increases in revenue per hundredweight (excluding fuel surcharge) in years was not enough to turn a first quarter profit for YRC Worldwide.
A wet pattern continues in the middle to eastern sections of the country, making it difficult for carriers to manage surging spring volumes coming out of the south. This impacts all modes of transportation including the beleaguered rail lines.
First significant group of storms and tornadoes for 2018.
A weather bomb hit the East Coast over the past two days and it has left a mark that will take shippers several days from which to recover.
Riskpulse predicts a somewhat colder, wetter winter for the western and northwestern US; warmer, drier conditions should prevail in the southeast and eastern seaboard.
Riskpulse, the leader in providing weather risk analytics for supply chains, has issued a retrospective report discussing how they advised their customers during the historic 2017 hurricane season.
Winter is coming. The National Weather Service is call for several inches of snow to blanket Minnesota, Wisconsin, and parts of the Dakotas this weekend, with over 90% confidence.
Hurricane Nate came ashore late Saturday night and by this morning had been downgraded to tropical storm with winds of 45 mph gusting to 55 mph at times as it moves toward the north-northeast at more than 25 mph.
Tropical Storm Nate is expected to strengthen overnight and through the day tomorrow as it continues to track toward the Gulf Coast across warmer waters. As a result, the National Weather Service has issued a hurricane warning for Grand Isle, LA, to the Alabama/Florida border for Tropical Storm Nate. The storm is expected to make landfall late Saturday or early Sunday.
The National Hurricane Center is warning about potential weekend impacts from Tropical Storm Nate anywhere from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana. Assets in the Mobile, AL; Baton Rouge, LA; and New Orleans, LA, areas currently showing the most risk, according to supply chain risk analysis firm Riskpulse.
Just as the nation turned its attention away from tropical weather, another threat is now looming for the Gulf Coast and Florida this weekend. Tropical Depression Sixteen is official and on the radar of the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and it has eyes for Louisiana and Florida this weekend.
While it appears the East Coast dodged a bullet with Hurricane Jose, the next 10 days look to be a busy time for transportation interests along the coast as Hurricane Maria’s track remains uncertain and there is still potential impacts from that storm early next week.
The East Coast could see two back-to-back hurricanes hit over the next ten days. With an already-steteched national supply-chain, it will test our logistics infrastructure.
As Hurricane Irma continues to move through the Southeast, some of its impacts are now being assessed, and they are likely to disrupt operations for many for days and weeks to come.
A natural disaster can rarely be called a benefit, but there are positives for the transportation industry and its investors from the double hit the nation took from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. From higher stock prices to higher rates, trucking may be poised to reap many benefits from the storms.
Hurricane Irma was already impacting Florida on Saturday afternoon with the storm forecast to come ashore Sunday morning. The track of the hurricane is now expected to take it through Florida and into Georgia, South Carolina and possibly Alabama and Tennessee by Wednesday.
Ports were closed and Florida highways were jammed with people on Friday fleeing Hurricane Irma, as the Category 4 storm approached the state.
Hurricane Irma has remained a Category 5 storm as it continues its path towards the U.S. A slight eastward shift of the projected path has not changed the danger for Florida from the storm, but it has brought South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia more in play for a possible direct hit.
