Overall Green alert Drought for North and Eastern Brazil-2022
in Brazil

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 15 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1015559
Name: North and Eastern Brazil-2022
Countries: Brazil
Start Date: End of Jan 2022
Duration: 504 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 177795 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 (37), WMO (1), INFORM (2),