In mid September 2024 a very large region in Central Europe, including Poland, Czechia, Austria, Romania, Hungary, Germany and Slovakia experienced very heavy rainfall, breaking local and national rainfall records over the period of four days.
Extreme rainfall
Climate change increased Typhoon Gaemi’s wind speeds and rainfall, with devastating impacts across the western Pacific region
Typhoon Gaemi (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina) strengthened into a tropical storm on July 20th while tracking northwest towards the Philippines.
Landslide triggering rainfall made more intense by human-induced climate change, devastating highly vulnerable communities in northern Kerala
Massive landslides killed hundreds of people in northern Kerala, India following an extreme monsoon downpour on July 30.
Increasing April-May rainfall, El Niño and high vulnerability behind deadly flooding in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran
This April and May, large regions of central Asia were hit by a series of storms resulting in heavy downpours and flash flooding.
Climate change, El Niño and infrastructure failures behind massive floods in southern Brazil
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.