Overall Green alert Drought for Turkey-2022
in Türkiye

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 1 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1015589
Name: Turkey-2022
Countries: Türkiye
Start Date: End of Apr 2022
Duration: 30 days (at 30 May 2022)
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 48149 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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