Skip to content Mexico City, photographed by Alexis Tostad. End of May and beginning of June 2024, Mexico and surrounding regions experienced extreme heat. Mexico already reported 125 heat-related deaths this season. Extreme and persistent heat has been overwhelming south western parts of the US, Mexico, and the northern countries of Central America. The area…
Skip to content Flood prevention in Afghanistan. Image by Todd Huffman. This April and May, large regions of central Asia were hit by a series of storms resulting in heavy downpours and flash flooding. The worst affected country was Afghanistan, where 540 fatalities have been reported since March (WFP, 2024). In Pakistan, at least 124…
Skip to content Flooding in in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul on May 5, 2024. Image by Ricardo Stuckert / PR. Between 24 April and 4 May 2024 over 420 mm of rain fell in Brazil’s southernmost state Rio Grande do Sul, leading to more than 90% of the state being affected by flooding. …
Skip to content Severe flooding on the Rufiji River in Tanzania, photographed on May 2 by NASA The 2024 long rains in East Africa were exceptionally heavy towards the end of March and throughout April into May, causing severe flooding in Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and other parts of the region. Hundreds of people lost their…
Skip to content Storm Debi – Image: Ⓒ Crown copyright, Met Office, Satellite data: EUMETSAT, Background data: NASA Earth Observatory During the winter half-year of 2023/2024, western Europe experienced a series of damaging storms. These storms led to disruptions and the associated precipitation caused exacerbated flood risks. During the autumn and winter of 2023/2024, western…
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…
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