Corals around St Lucia have experienced elevated temperatures 16 times in the past 41 years.
  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 21.79 C on 13-Nov-2024
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 21.77 C on 16-Nov-2024
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.45 C on 01-Nov-2023
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.58 C on 01-Nov-2005
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.95 C on 23-Oct-2010
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.86 C on 17-Oct-2010
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.28 C on 09-Oct-2010
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.96 C on 04-Oct-2010
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 11.91 C on 23-Sep-2010
  10. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.50 C on 11-Nov-2004
  11. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.31 C on 16-Nov-2003
  12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.11 C on 02-Jan-2024
  13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.85 C on 18-Oct-1998
  14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.39 C on 15-Nov-2020
  15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.09 C on 11-Nov-2016
  16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.02 C on 11-Nov-2021

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2446.