Climate change is disrupting weather patterns worldwide, increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events like heat waves, storms, floods, and droughts. Once rare, these events are now more common and dangerous, impacting millions of people and ecosystems around the world.
Some key factors are the rising global temperature, including the warming of the air and ocean surfaces, which worsens weather events that would otherwise be less severe.
This growing instability makes extreme weather more frequent. For example, recent heavy rainfall in Spain has triggered severe flooding, even though the Valencian Community recently experienced a “cold drop” episode in October. As we can see, the instability caused by the new climatic conditions on our planet makes these events increasingly frequent.