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During the summer of 2022, parts of Europe experienced drought conditions exacerbated by heat waves. [1] This was preceded by a warm and dry spring. On 9 August, a senior European Commission researcher said that it seemed to be Europe's worst year in 500 years. [2] A report from the Global Drought Observatory has confirmed this. [3]
Drought warnings were put in place for the summer. [10] It was the driest February since 1993. [11] Scientists said that this increased the drought risk for other regions of England. [12] It was the wettest March in over 40 years for England and Wales. [13]
5 Europe. 6 India. 7 South Pacific. 8 United States. 9 South America. 10 Soviet Union. 11 United Kingdom. ... Part of the 2010-2012 UK Drought. 2011 UK September ...
Last summer’s drought across the Northern Hemisphere was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to an October 2022 study by World Weather Attribution, a group of international ...
Much of the Northern Hemisphere is struggling with drought or the threat of drought, as Europe experiences an unusually warm, precipitation-free winter and the swaths of the American West remain ...
The drought has already affected up to six million people 11th century church emerges from dried-up reservoir as Catalonia facing worst drought in decades Skip to main content
Europe: 1586 Famine and drought in Qishan County, Shaanxi province. Rice prices skyrocketed and there was widespread population migration and starvation. [44] China: 1588 Famine in Wai County, Hebei province, [44] China: 1590–1598: Pan-European famine, including Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Britain and the Nordic ...
Northern Kenya experienced the worst drought in 40 years that left 4.4 million people acutely food insecure, with 1.2 million facing emergency hunger levels. [57] [58] The U.N. Development Program said rising food and energy prices caused by COVID-19 and the Russian war in Ukraine hit Sub-Saharan Africa hardest. Kenyan chapati makers are ...