# IPCC AR6 Working Group I, Chapter 11: Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

_IFI / multilateral report_

- Issuing body: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Issued: 2021-08-09
- Archived: 2026-10-22
- Provenance: Independent
- Original: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-11/
- File: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/j8w3ubbu/production/dfcb07775985bb3da4d142501b519017e6715597.pdf

Assessment of extremes; the heaviest one-day rainfall increases by about 7 percent per degree Celsius of global warming.

## Coverage

- [Rebuilding a city that cannot stop: Malé's flooded streets and the cost of putting a nation on two square kilometres](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/male-rebuilding-city-cannot-stop-flooding-concentration) — 2026-10-23, Business & Infrastructure — A 90 mm storm flooded Malé on 21 October 2026. GMM's analysis of 51 years of rain, the tide gauge and the drains finds an island that has lost the capacity to cope, and sets out how to rebuild it without stopping the city.

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