Bleaching in Ningaloo this year

[tribbitt]

DHW are cumulative "degrees above bleaching threshold" added up over the past 12 weeks. Here is a chart from NOAA for how to interpret these values

Data suggests Ningaloo is 20+ DHW, and Pilbara coast is at 30. The article says this: "almost unthinkable". Photos are heartbreaking, so much dead coral.

The news I read

https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/safe-no-more-charts-marine-heat-has-severely-damaged-ningaloo-and-other-pristine-coral-reefs

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Too depressing to go down that rabbit hole....