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Coral Bleaching - Bonaire

Corals around Bonaire have experienced elevated temperatures 21 times in the past 41 years.

  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.32 C on 19-Nov-2024
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.29 C on 25-Nov-2024
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.07 C on 16-Nov-2023
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.04 C on 14-Nov-2023
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.86 C on 11-Nov-2023
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 17.12 C on 11-Nov-2010
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.66 C on 02-Nov-2010
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.81 C on 25-Nov-2020
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.33 C on 02-Jan-2024
  10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.45 C on 06-Nov-2022
  11. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.44 C on 13-Nov-2008
  12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.11 C on 03-Nov-2017
  13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.09 C on 09-Nov-2005
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.59 C on 27-Nov-2003
  15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.08 C on 03-Dec-2019
  16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.44 C on 17-Nov-2012
  17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.27 C on 27-Nov-2016
  18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.23 C on 02-Nov-1995
  19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.71 C on 28-Oct-2011
  20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.70 C on 26-Nov-2004
  21. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.67 C on 29-Nov-1999

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2847.

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.