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Coral Bleaching - Antigua

Corals around Antigua have experienced elevated temperatures 14 times in the past 41 years.

  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.10 C on 01-Nov-2024
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.02 C on 07-Nov-2024
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.91 C on 25-Oct-2023
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.90 C on 27-Oct-2023
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.48 C on 20-Oct-2005
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.38 C on 31-Oct-2005
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 15.41 C on 08-Sep-2024
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.80 C on 29-Sep-2010
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.80 C on 19-Oct-2010
  10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.16 C on 09-Nov-2019
  11. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.72 C on 02-Sep-2010
  12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.94 C on 10-Nov-2006
  13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.57 C on 18-Nov-2015
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.25 C on 02-Jan-2024

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2562.

For information about why elevated temperatures are so damaging to corals, go to Coral Bleaching.

The record of Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) over the past 40 years

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days exceeding DHW > 1) over the past 40 years

The data on this page were last updated on 3 May 2024. The next update is scheduled for 1 June 2024.