Overall Orange alert Drought for Urals - Kazakhstan-2021
in Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 2 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1014881
Name: Urals - Kazakhstan-2021
Glide number: DR-2021-000085-KAZ
Countries: Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan
Start Date: End of Apr 2021
Duration: 87 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 979473 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Geophysicists predicted an increase in the frequency of tornadoes, as ... 2021-07-16T09:19+0200.

A The emergence of the “dusty devil” linked to global warming. The tornado in Mytishchi became a rather unusual phenomenon for our latitudes: the people with fear and curiosity shared the video of this “tornado” on social networks. Experts
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N. America’s warmest June on recordWed, 07 Jul 2021 15:02:00 +0200.

Record-breaking heat scorched from the southwest to the northwest of the United States and into Canada, where the all-time record daily temperature was broken three days in a row in British Columbia. The region was 1.2 degrees Celsius (34.2
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Heatwave stokes North America's warmest...Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:44:00 +0200.

Last month was the hottest June on record in North America, stoked by a deadly heatwave searing across parts of the region, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Wednesday, saying it illustrates the impacts of global warm
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Heatwave stokes North America's warmest June on recordWed, 07 Jul 2021 13:52:00 +0200.

Record-breaking heat scorched from the southwest to the northwest of the United States and into Canada. Globally, June 2021 joins the same month in 2018 as the fourth warmest June. It was the second warmest June on record for Europe, while
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),