Corals around Aruba have experienced elevated temperatures 20 times in the past 41 years.
  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.17 C on 02-Dec-2024
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.34 C on 16-Nov-2023
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.72 C on 01-Nov-2010
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.72 C on 06-Nov-2010
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.72 C on 29-Nov-2023
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.06 C on 18-Nov-2020
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 11.02 C on 02-Jan-2024
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.26 C on 20-Nov-2022
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.72 C on 12-Nov-2011
  10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.92 C on 31-Oct-2008
  11. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.78 C on 18-Nov-2005
  12. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.32 C on 06-Dec-2003
  13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.79 C on 07-Dec-2016
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.24 C on 16-Nov-2019
  15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.97 C on 09-Nov-2017
  16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.86 C on 27-Oct-1995
  17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.46 C on 13-Nov-1999
  18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.28 C on 30-Nov-1999
  19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.24 C on 28-Nov-2012
  20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.09 C on 15-Nov-2012

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2735.