Global Climate Projections - Extreme weather events

Global Climate Projections

Extreme weather events

With every additional increment of global warming, changes in extremes continue to become larger.

Hot extremes

Frequency and increase in intensity of extreme temperature event

Projected increase in frequency and intensity of extreme temperature event at different global warming levels relative to 1850-1900 (Image credit: IPCC AR6)

Heavy precipitation

Frequency and increase in intensity of heavy 1-day precipitation event

Projected increase in frequency and intensity of heavy 1-day precipitation event at different global warming levels relative to 1850-1900 (Image credit: IPCC AR6)

Droughts

Frequency and increase in intensity of an agricultural and ecological drought event

Projected increase in frequency and intensity of agricultural and ecological drought event at different global warming levels relative to 1850-1900 (Image credit: IPCC AR6)

Image credit:

Figure SPM.6 From IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson- Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.