>Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center generate groundwater and soil moisture drought indicators each week. They are based on terrestrial water storage observations derived from GRACE-FO satellite data and integrated with other observations, using a sophisticated numerical model of land surface water and energy processes. The drought indicators describe current wet or dry conditions, expressed as a percentile showing the probability of occurrence for that particular location and time of year, with lower values (warm colors) meaning dryer than normal, and higher values (blues) meaning wetter than normal. These are provided as both images and binary data files.
Honestly it’s bizzare for me to enjoy nice summer while the whole southern Europe is affected by drought.
Lithuania btw
wow, scary.
“Funnily” enough (for some kind of dark meanings of fun) that tip of Portugal (and I expect parts of southern europe) not being as dark, is because this is a measure pf percentage wise to the 1948-2012 period and that part of Portugal has always extremely dry this time of the year.
Norway be blessed as European reservoir. If it runs out of oil it can still sell water.
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>Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center generate groundwater and soil moisture drought indicators each week. They are based on terrestrial water storage observations derived from GRACE-FO satellite data and integrated with other observations, using a sophisticated numerical model of land surface water and energy processes. The drought indicators describe current wet or dry conditions, expressed as a percentile showing the probability of occurrence for that particular location and time of year, with lower values (warm colors) meaning dryer than normal, and higher values (blues) meaning wetter than normal. These are provided as both images and binary data files.
Source:
https://nasagrace.unl.edu/
Honestly it’s bizzare for me to enjoy nice summer while the whole southern Europe is affected by drought.
Lithuania btw
wow, scary.
“Funnily” enough (for some kind of dark meanings of fun) that tip of Portugal (and I expect parts of southern europe) not being as dark, is because this is a measure pf percentage wise to the 1948-2012 period and that part of Portugal has always extremely dry this time of the year.
Norway be blessed as European reservoir. If it runs out of oil it can still sell water.
[here’s North America](https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/applications/drought-monitoring/)