6310 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/3/307This work examines drought and flood events over Kenya from 1981 to 2016 using the Standardized PrecipitationEvapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The spatiotemporal analysis of dry and wet events was conducted for 3 and 12 months. Extreme drought incidences were observed in the years 1987, 2000, 2006,....Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:54:00 +0100mdpi-7619f24e246c571f4dd17c35ec52f76f20200321125400https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8133591/Severe-storm-batters-middle-country-bringing-tornadoes-blizzard.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490Ten million Americans are hit by severe storms as tornadoes flip cars in Texas, Colorado is struck by blizzard and Air Force evacuates spy planes from Nebraska base Storm system brought at least three tornadoes to Texas Wednesday night, flipping cars, downing trees and ripping the roofs off houses;....Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:39:00 +0100dailymail-2f126688b9607df273f2903cb5ab548320200320183900https://www.mycentraloregon.com/2020/03/20/storm-moves-east-with-damaging-winds-flash-flooding-and-threat-for-tornadoes/ABC News (NEW YORK) — In the last 24 hours, damaging storms were reported from Texas to Iowa and all the way to Ohio. Reports of property damage were widespread in Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma. There are no reports of a confirmed tornado touching down, but it can’t be ruled out at this point.Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:18:00 +0100mycentraloregon-e19c53238a0dec19f8ea553533eca01d20200320171800https://abcnews.go.com/US/storm-moves-east-damaging-winds-flash-flooding-threat/story?id=69705709In the last 24 hours, damaging storms were reported from Texas to Iowa and all the way to Ohio. Reports of property damage were widespread in Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma. There are no reports of a confirmed tornado touching down, but it can’t be ruled out at this point.Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:07:00 +0100ABCnews-d4f48af4eb88e0112c9699bf8657804720200320140700