Corals around Barbados have experienced elevated temperatures 20 times in the past 41 years.
  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 23.10 C on 12-Nov-2024
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.60 C on 03-Nov-2023
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.59 C on 05-Nov-2023
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 15.48 C on 26-Oct-2010
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.25 C on 10-Oct-2010
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.75 C on 02-Oct-2010
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.54 C on 31-Oct-2005
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.74 C on 23-Sep-2010
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.22 C on 09-Sep-2010
  10. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.70 C on 13-Nov-2003
  11. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.52 C on 14-Nov-2020
  12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.21 C on 21-Oct-2011
  13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.80 C on 15-Nov-2004
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.17 C on 19-Nov-2016
  15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.16 C on 05-Nov-2021
  16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.12 C on 23-Oct-1998
  17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.98 C on 02-Jan-2024
  18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.50 C on 04-Nov-2008
  19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.19 C on 18-Nov-2008
  20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.14 C on 12-Nov-2006

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2642.