Overall Green alert Drought for Central-Eastern Europe-2023
in Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

Event summary

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

GDACS ID DR 1016401
Name: Central-Eastern Europe-2023
Glide number: DR-2023-000138-AUT
Countries: Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine
Start Date: End of May 2023
Duration: 203 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 559342 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2023. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 135 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Uncertainty clouds EU's compound feed demand outlook2023-12-07T14:28+0100.

The trade group forecasts that environmental and welfare policies will have a negative impact on the market outlook for livestock and feed production, although the cost of key feed materials, mainly feed grains, has returned to pre-Russian
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Heat killed 61,000 in Europe's record-breaking 2022 summer: study2023-12-06T17:13+0100.

More than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe's record-breaking summer last year, a study said on Monday which called for more to be done to protect against even deadlier heatwaves expected in the coming years. The world's fast
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Is Climate Change Impacting Brain Function?2023-12-03T11:26+0100.

Rising occurrences of severe weather like heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, along with linked events like forest fires and floods due to global warming, might affect our cognitive abilities in the times ahead, stated study conducted by teams
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Meteo Campania, arriva il freddo: temperature in picchiata2023-12-03T11:23+0100.

Secondo le ultime previsioni meteo Campania, i prossimi giorni saranno caratterizzati da un brusco calo delle temperature. Gelo in arrivo sull’Italia in queste ore con temperature in picchiata fino a 15 gradi da Nord a Sud. Dopo un inizio d
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Analytical report

06/Dec/2023 14:19 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Analytical report

14/Jul/2023 13:47 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

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