2024 – Page 7 – World Weather Attribution

Extreme cold will still occur in Northern Europe, although less often – risking decreasing preparedness and higher vulnerability

A person walks in the snow followed by a dog in Finland. The land is very flat and they sky is grey with orange on the horizon.

Under the influence of a lingering anticyclone, Fennoscandia experienced extremely cold winter temperatures during early January 2024.

Climate change increased heavy precipitation associated with impactful Storm Bettina over Black Sea

In late November, countries bordering the Black Sea including Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Türkiye and Russia, witnessed exceptionally high rainfall and snowfall, and hurricane-force winds due to Storm Bettina.

Climate change, not El Niño, main driver of exceptional drought in highly vulnerable Amazon River Basin

Wildfires burn through forest in Bolivia emitting large amounts of smoke.

Since mid 2023 the Amazon River Basin (ARB) has been in a state of exceptional drought, driven by low rainfall and consistently high temperatures for the entire year 2023 across the basin.