WMO: 2024 Was Dry and Hot With Lots of Rain
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Essay by Eric Worrall
Apparently it’s not the broken meteorological models, climate climate is making the world more unpredictable.
Water cycle becoming harder to predict: UN scientists
By Rebecca Speare-Cole
Updated September 18 2025 – 5:16pm, first published 5:13pm
Earth’s water cycle is becoming harder to predict as the climate changes, UN scientists have warned.
Last year was the sixth in a row to show an erratic cycle and the third where all glacier regions reported ice loss, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) state of global water resources report for 2024.
The international group of scientists assessed freshwater availability and water storage across the world, including lakes, river flow, groundwater, soil moisture, snow cover and ice melt.
While 2024 was generally a dry and hot year, featuring record-breaking temperatures driven by the warming El Nino weather phenomenon, it also saw significant flooding events, the scientists said.
They found that around 60 per cent of rivers globally showed either too much or too little water compared to the average flow per year.
While the world has natural cycles of climate variability from year to year, long-term trends outlined in the report indicate the water cycle, at a global scale, is accelerating.
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