In het najaar van 2024 zorgden hevige regens en weerverschijnsel Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos (DANA, letterlijk 'geïsoleerde depressie op hogere niveaus') diverse malen voor meer dan een maand- en zelfs jaarhoeveelheid aan neerslag in verschillende gebieden van Spanje.

Ter gelegenheid van het 10 jarig jubileum is op 31 oktober 2024 het rapport '10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters' van World Weather Attribution (WWA) verschenen.

According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), October 2024 was the second-warmest October globally, after October 2023, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 15.25°C, 0.80°C above the 1991-2020 average for October.

Understanding how rising global air and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) influence tropical cyclone intensities is crucial for assessing current and future storm risks.

Storm Bert was named by the Irish Met Éireann and Sigrid by Free University of Berlin on 21 November 2024.

With 2024 on track to be declared the hottest on record, scientists from IIASA and Columbia University have noticed that specific regions are consistently more affected by extreme temperatures, the study 'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations' provides the first worldwide map of these regional climate danger zones.

Hittekracht en hittefit: zo kan Nederland de toenemende hitte aan.

Issued annually since 2006, the Arctic Report Card is a timely and peer-reviewed source for clear, reliable and concise environmental information on the current state of different components of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records.