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# March 16, 2017: Modeling City Weather, Blizzard Frequency Rises and Heritage Profits Down, Pricing Up
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/march-16-2017-modeling-city-weather-blizzard-frequency-rises-heritage-profits-pricing/
- Published: 2017-03-16T16:33:05.000Z
- Updated: 2017-03-16T16:33:05.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

[Scientists Consider How City Skylines Influence Weather](http://www.upi.com/Science%5FNews/2017/03/16/Scientists-consider-how-city-skylines-influence-weather/8651489675543/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*UPI*  
A new model predicts how the shape and arrangement of buildings, as well as the heat they generate, can alter weather patterns.

[Heritage, South Florida’s No. 3 insurer, Reports 63 Percent Profit Drop](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-heritage-reports-2016-income-drop-20170315-story.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Sun Sentinel*  
The company said it has secured approval from state regulators for a statewide average rate increase of 9.9 percent for all of its multi-peril homeowner policies.

[Europe Faces Annual Extreme Coastal Floods in Future](http://www.climatecentral.org/news/europe-faces-annual-extreme-coastal-floods-in-future-21246?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Climate Central*  
The kind of extreme coastal flooding events that today hit parts of Europe roughly once every hundred years could happen annually by the end of the century.

[Generali Plays Down Takeover Talk As Cost Cuts Speed Up](http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-generali-results-idUKKBN16N0MQ?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Reuters*  
Italy’s biggest insurer played down the prospects of a takeover as it reported its highest ever full-year operating profit.

[An Updated Blizzard Climatology of the Contiguous United States (1959–2014): An Examination of Spatiotemporal Trends](http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0350.1?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Journal of the American Meteorlogical Society*   
The number of blizzards in the U.S. have increased by almost a factor of four since the mid-20th century.