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State of the Climate in Latin America & the Caribbean 2023

The World Meteorological Organization monitors several climatological indicators such as temperature, precipitation, glacial mass balance and sea level rise to observe and predict the climate at both global and regional levels. The trends of these indicators, as well as key extreme weather and climate events and their impacts on areas like development, food security and migration, are published in annual State of the Climate reports.

The following site is an overview of the State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023.  Leer la versión en español aquí .

The Global Context

The State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Extreme events in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022 as reported by WMO Members. Event types are distinguished by distinctly colored triangles.

Impacts

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Enhancing climate resilience and adaptation policies for health

© World Meteorological Organization, 2023

WMO uses datasets developed and maintained by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the United Kingdom’s Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom.

It also uses reanalysis datasets from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and its Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. This method combines millions of meteorological and marine observations, including from satellites, with models to produce a complete reanalysis of the atmosphere. The combination of observations with models makes it possible to estimate temperatures at any time and in any place across the globe, even in data-sparse areas such as the polar regions.

Internationally recognized datasets are used for all other key climate indicators. Full details are available in the report.

Videos

UK Met Office, WMO

Data visualization

Claire Ransom, Benjamin Pire

Content Contributors

FAO, WGMS, ECLAC