Overall Green Drought alert for Mainland Southeast Asia-2019 in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam from 21 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC to 26 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Drought for Mainland Southeast Asia-2019

in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 7 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID	DR 1012806
Name:	Mainland Southeast Asia-2019
Countries:	Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Start Date:	End of Nov 2018
Duration:	699 days
Impact:	Minor impact for agricultural drought in 206060 km2
More info:	Global Drought Observatory

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18/Mar/2020 17:00 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Analytical report

09/Jul/2019 11:27 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),

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