Coral Bleaching - Curacao

Corals around Curacao have experienced elevated temperatures 18 times in the past 41 years.

1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 21.05 C on 31-Oct-2024
2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.67 C on 16-Nov-2023
3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 17.35 C on 10-Nov-2010
4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.95 C on 02-Nov-2010
5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.19 C on 19-Nov-2020
6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 11.49 C on 07-Nov-2022
7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.49 C on 02-Jan-2024
8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.13 C on 05-Dec-2003
9. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.91 C on 15-Nov-2008
10. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.54 C on 24-Nov-2005
11. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.02 C on 08-Nov-2017
12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.60 C on 06-Dec-2016
13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.53 C on 04-Dec-2019
14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.13 C on 04-Nov-2011
15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.92 C on 19-Nov-2012
16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.64 C on 27-Nov-2012
17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.27 C on 02-Nov-1995
18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.54 C on 29-Nov-2004

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2920.

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