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Coral Bleaching
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Coral Bleaching - Belize

Corals around Belize have experienced elevated temperatures 27 times in the past 41 years.

  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.69 C on 27-Oct-2023
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.14 C on 18-Oct-2024
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.43 C on 16-Aug-2023
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.43 C on 22-Aug-2023
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.41 C on 20-Aug-2023
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.91 C on 01-Nov-2019
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.50 C on 08-Oct-2020
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.03 C on 20-Oct-2017
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.69 C on 01-Nov-2021
  10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.61 C on 23-Aug-2024
  11. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.61 C on 26-Aug-2024
  12. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.57 C on 20-Aug-2024
  13. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.14 C on 23-Oct-1998
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.87 C on 18-Oct-2016
  15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.62 C on 27-Sep-2005
  16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.44 C on 08-Nov-2015
  17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.95 C on 19-Oct-2004
  18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.69 C on 28-Sep-2021
  19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.55 C on 23-Sep-2010
  20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.49 C on 19-Oct-2011
  21. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.34 C on 30-Aug-2020
  22. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.32 C on 24-Oct-2009
  23. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.78 C on 15-Oct-2008
  24. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.78 C on 12-Aug-2020
  25. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.63 C on 05-Nov-2003
  26. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.45 C on 22-Sep-2009
  27. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.23 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 3219.

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.
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