Extreme rainfall – World Weather Attribution

When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather In 2024

A composite image with five panels showing: a satellite image of flood waters discharging into the ocean, workers sweeping mud after a flood, a forestfire, a women walking through a flood and a satellite image of a hurricane.

When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather in 2024 is our annual report, published this year for the first time.

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

Two women fill up water containers in a refugee camp in Somalia.

In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe.

Conflict, poverty and water management issues exposing vulnerable communities in Africa to extreme floods that are now common events because of climate change

A man in a white red cross bib assists a woman walking next to floodwaters in Chad.

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

Rapid urbanisation and climate change key drivers of dramatic flood impacts in Nepal

A women in Nepal is carried on the back of another women in the rain. There are people in the background and everyone wears rainjackets.

From 26-28 September 2024, extremely heavy rainfall hit Nepal, especially the capital Kathmandu and nearby regions, causing devastating flash floods, landslides and riverine flooding from the Bagmati, Sapakoshi, Narayani, Sardu, Rew, and Nakkhu rivers and their tributaries. In total, 244 people were killed.