Climate change exposes millions of Hajj pilgrims to deadly heat for increasingly longer parts of the year

Temperatures in #SaudiArabia are rising earlier in the year and reaching more dangerous extremes, making the pilgrimage increasingly hazardous not only in the summer months, where in 2024 more than 1300 pilgrims lost their lives when #Hajj started in mid-June temperatures reached 51°C, but even during the spring months.

In a super-rapid study researchers from World #WeatherAttribution show that for pilgrims who spend 20–30 hours outdoors, often walking in dense crowds, the risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke is becoming far more severe earlier in the year, with temperatures now reaching heights in May that were only seen in June to August in the 1960s and 1970s, due to human-induced #ClimateChange.

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-exposes-millions-of-hajj-pilgrims-to-deadly-heat-for-increasingly-longer-parts-of-the-year/

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#ExtremWeather

#Spain #floods: Thousands of people evacuated in Málaga as country braces for new storms

Emergency services in the #Málaga region — which includes the tourist resorts of #Marbella, #Velez and #Estepona — have moved around 3,000 people from houses at high risk of flooding located near the #Guadalhorce River.

The region is expected to be hit hardest this week by the extreme weather phenomenon known locally as #DANA.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/13/spain-floods-thousands-of-people-evacuated-in-malaga-as-country-braces-for-new-storms

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Conflict, poverty and water management issues exposing vulnerable communities in #Africa

The rainy season from July to Sept. 2024 was marked by extremely heavy and sometimes unprecedented rainfall in large parts of the #Sahel region, leading to catastrophic #flooding in #Sudan in Aug. and in #Nigeria, #Niger, #Chad and #Cameroon in Sept. In total more than 2000 people lost their lives and millions were displaced.

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/conflict-poverty-and-water-management-issues-exposing-vulnerable-communities-in-africa-to-extreme-floods-that-are-now-common-events-because-of-climate-change/

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#Hurricane #Beryl hits #Yucatan peninsula

Webcam in Cancun:
https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/mexico/quintana-roo/cancun-royalsands-phaseii.html

https://zoom.earth/storms/beryl-2024/

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Floods kill nine in India and Bangladesh, millions affected

Torrential rains and surging rivers across northeast #India and neighboring #Bangladesh have killed at least nine people, disaster officials said Thursday, with more than three million people affected.

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-india-bangladesh-millions-affected.html

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