2024 European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report

Key messages:
a)
#Europe experienced its warmest year, with the second highest number of heat stress days and tropical nights, on record.

b)
The area of Europe experiencing days with temperatures below freezing is decreasing, with the year seeing the largest area on record with fewer than three months (90 days) of frost days. The number of ‘cold stress days’ was the lowest on record.

c)
For the European region and for the Mediterranean Sea, the annual sea surface temperature was the highest on record. It was also the warmest year on record for European lakes.

d)
#Glaciers in #Scandinavia and #Svalbard saw their highest recorded annual rates of mass loss. They also saw the largest mass loss of any #glacier region globally.

e)
Western Europe saw one of the ten wettest years on record and Europe experienced the most widespread #flooding since 2013.

f)
The year saw a record proportion of electricity generation by renewables, at 45%

https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024

Report (PDF):
https://climate.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/custom-uploads/ESOTC-2024/press-resources/ESOTC-2024-report.pdf

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#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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