Overall Green alert Drought for Nordeste (Brasil)-2018
in Brazil

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 5 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1012396
Name: Nordeste (Brasil)-2018
Countries: Brazil
Start Date: End of May 2018
Duration: 224 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 104035 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),