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Current drought situation in Europe: The latest status of drought in Europe using a combined drought indicator
Drought conditions in Europe at the beginning of March 2025
Summary
From 1 to 10 March, the map shows slowly worsening drought conditions across southern and eastern Europe. Severe, enduring, and critical conditions persist in the Mediterranean, and Middle East regions. The Iberian Peninsula faces critical conditions, with extreme impacts due to alternating periods of drought and intense winter precipitation. In south-eastern Spain vegetation remains affected.
Warning and watch drought conditions
By early March 2025, the Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) shows warning drought conditions in sparse regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Italy, south-eastern Baltic Sea region, Poland, most of Belarus, central and eastern Ukraine, some regions of Greece, some areas of the Balkans, Cyprus, Malta and other Mediterranean islands, as well as Ireland, northern UK, few spots in southern France, western and south-eastern Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and most of in Türkiye.
Wide regions in central-eastern Europe, western Russia, eastern Alps, eastern Türkiye, and few areas in south-eastern Sweden, are under watch conditions due to a precipitation deficit.
Alert drought conditions
Some areas in the Mediterranean region, particularly in south-eastern Spain, central Greece and Crete are under persistent alert drought conditions, with impacts on the vegetation. This severe and prolonged drought is even more intense and worsening in most of northern Morocco, northern Algeria, and some regions in Tunisia, causing significant impacts. Alert conditions have been developing in south-eastern Türkiye, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, part of Jordan and northern Iraq.
Normal and recovery drought conditions
Scandinavia, southern Great Britain, north-eastern Iberian Peninsula, the majority of France, parts of Germany, Benelux and Switzerland, most of northern and central Italy, nearly all of the western Balkans, south-eastern Romania, and part of Bulgaria show normal or recovery conditions.
Temperatures
During this 10-day period, temperatures were above the seasonal average in most of Europe with the highest daily anomalies in northern and eastern Europe, and with short warm spells in the same regions.
Note: this analysis was performed on 18-03-2025, based on data referring to early March 2025, and computed with version 4.0 of the Combined Drought Indicator.
European Drought Observatory website is below:
https://drought.emergency.copernicus.eu/tumbo/edo/map/
