Kolkata, India. Image by Cédric Z. Throughout April and continuing into May 2024, extreme record-breaking heat led to severe impacts across the Asian continent. From Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, in the West, to Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines in the East, large regions of Asia experienced temperatures well above 40°C for many days….
Skip to content To operate its lock systems, the Panama Canal uses around seven billion litres of water daily from Lake Gatún, a rain-fed reservoir. Photo by Arthur T. LaBar. Since early 2023, the Republic of Panama has experienced one of the driest years on record. Precipitation from the area of the Panama Canal Watershed…
Skip to content Dubai on Wednesday 17 April. Areas of flooding are highlighted in turquoise. Image taken by Copernicus Sentinel-2. From April 14 to15 2024, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the northern parts of Oman were hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall causing massive disruption in infrastructure and public life in the area and leading…
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Image by Guillaume Colin & Pauline Penot. At the end of March and the beginning of April 2024 a region across the Sahel and West Africa experienced extreme heat, with maximum temperatures in the Sahel reaching more than 45°C and minimum temperatures of 32°C in Burkina Faso (Burkina Faso Meteorological Agency). Kayes…
A maize farmer in Zimbabwe. Image by Johnson Siamachira/CIMMYT. From January 2024, large parts of Southern Africa experienced significantly below average rainfall, with Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Botswana receiving less than 20 percent of the typical rainfall expected for February, with devastating consequences for the population largely depending on rainfed agriculture. The drought…
Lagos, Nigeria. Image by Omoeko Media. Southern West Africa experienced unusually excessive humid heat early in the season. The southern coastal zone of Western Africa – also called the Guinea zone – experienced abnormal early season heat in February 2024. A combination of high temperatures and relatively humid air resulted in area average Heat Index…
Following heavy rainfall, a landslide hit Masara, a small town in the in the Davao Region. Image by Office Civil Defense, Davao Region. From the 28th of January, the Mindanao Island which is among the most populous regions in the Philippines was hit by heavy rainfall caused by a trough of a low pressure area…
Skip to content Flooding in Midleton, southern Ireland. Image by Guileen Coast Guard. In October 2023, County Cork was struck by two days of extreme rainfall from Storm Babet that fell on already saturated soils. Swollen rivers led to severe flooding in Midleton. The storm brought extreme rainfall to southwestern Ireland leading to extreme river…
Image by Red Cross Chile. Extreme wildfires in coastal-central Chile have been fuelled by intense and persistent fire-conducive weather conditions in the region since the beginning of the year favouring the spread of severe fires in Viña del Mar (33°S, 71°W) in early February. During the early days of February 2024, a low-pressure system formed…
Skip to content More than 80% of people living in poverty in Madagascar, making the population highly vulnerable to prolonged periods of high temperatures. Image taken in 2016 by Didier Revol for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Madagascar, in particular the most populated region around the capital of Antananarivo experienced in 2023 its…
