China's top 10 weather and climate events in 2024
On January 24, theselectionresultsof the top 10 domestic and global weather and climate events in 2024 areunveiledduring the monthly press conference of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), a fresh call for effective adapting actions to climate change.
In the context of climate warming,China was characterized by a noticeablewarm and humid climate, andfrequent and intenseextreme weatherevents, creating many record-shatteringevents.Regardingboth China and theentireworld, 2024wasthe warmest year on record. Climate anomalies alsotriggeredmyriadmeteorological disastersworldwide, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy rain and floods, typhoons/hurricanes and forest wildfires.
The selection results of the top 10 weather and climate events in China have reflected the major features of China's weather and climate conditions in 2024.They are as follows:
1.HuludaoinLiaoningsuffered fromunusuallytorrentialrain in August, 2024
2.SouthernChina experienced the second strongestsummer heat wavein historyandGuangzhou experienced the "longest summer"
3.Autumn typhoons weregeneratedsuccessively and Typhoon Yagibecame the strongest typhoon that landed in China in autumn on record
4.Severe convective weather frequently occurred andthe area affected byhailstormwas wide-ranging
5.The national average temperature in 2024 reached a new record high
Annual variation curve of the national average temperature in China Source: National Climate Centre
6. Astrong cold waveenvelopedChina in February, 2024, seriously affectingthe Spring Festival travelrush
7.Theintenseplumrain weather batteredthe middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze Riverand the embankment ofDongting Lakewas breached
8.“Dragonboat water”shatteredrainfall records in Guangdong and Guangxi
9.PersistentrainstormwallopedHainan,triggeringsecondary disastersin October, 2024
10. Rainstormintheflood seasonof 2024gave rise tomany mountaintorrents andgeological disasters
The selection campaign is hosted by CMA and organized by the National Climate Centre (NCC), also in conjuction with departments like theNational Meteorological Centre (NMC),theNational SatelliteMeteorologicalCentre (NSMC), CMA PublicMeteorologicalService Centre and CMA Communication and Outreach Centre (China Meteorological News Press), whichaims to arouse the public's attention to meteorological disasters and extreme weather and climate events, enhance the initiative of meteorological disaster prevention andtheawareness of self-rescue and mutual rescue, andboostthe ability of the whole society toguard againstmeteorological disasters.