When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather in 2024 is our annual report, published this year for the first time.
When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather In 2024
Europe
Extreme downpours increasing in southeastern Spain as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate
From October 29-30, 2024, eastern Spain was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall.
10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters
In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe.
Climate change and high exposure increased costs and disruption to lives and livelihoods from flooding associated with exceptionally heavy rainfall in Central Europe
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.
Climate change key driver of extreme drought in water scarce Sicily and Sardinia
Sicily and Sardinia, the two largest Italian islands, important centres of agriculture and tourism have suffered from exceptionally low rainfall and very high temperatures over the last 12 months, culminating in extreme drought conditions from May 2024 onwards