Mapped: Extreme weather and climate phenomena around the world

From devastating floods to record-breaking heatwaves and beyond, extreme weather events and anomalous phenomena, caused by, exacerbated by or linked to a heating planet are becoming increasingly frequent and intense.

By Ethan van Diemen

16 Jul

From left: Flooded road surface corner Liesbeeck Park Road and Durban Road on 14 June 2023 in Paarl. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Jaco Marais) | A farmer walks in a dry dam near his drought-hit farm on 10 January 2018 in Vredendal. (Photo: Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Esa Alexander) | Sheep on a farm near Trompsburg on 16 November 2006. (Photo: Gallo Images / Marleen Smith) | Unsplash / Francis Odeyemi | Andrea Ferrario

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Mapped: Extreme weather and climate phenomena around the world

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