#EuroDrought18

Colleague Massimiliano Zappa of WSL proposed via his Twitter channel to connect the scientific community via the hashtag #EuroDrought18 (at least the ones, who are on Twitter):

More and more peers and friends tweets concern the current #drought situation in #Europe. I suggest to start an #hashtag to collect our thoughts and threads #EuroDrought18
Cc @lese66 @niko_wanders @andy_philipp @MalikoTanguy @AnneVanLoon @jamiehannahorse @DroughtCentre

— Massimiliano Zappa (@Hydrology_WSL) July 5, 2018

The proposal faced very broad agreement. The further development of the current drought situation will be interesting since seasonal precipitation forecasts show no fundamental relief of the situation (except parts of Southern Europe):

GCFS1_RR_01_EUR_07_2018_234_de — Seasonal precipitation anomaly forecast of DWD/MPI/UHH for August to October 2018; (c) DWD, MPI-M and UHH; Source: https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/jahreszeitenvorhersage

Other seasonal forecasting systems point out the same direction; so, there is some evidence that there will be further coverage of #EuroDrought18…

ps2png-gorax-green-002-6fe5cac1a363ec1525f54343b6cc9fd8-1fPrCm — Seasonal precipitation anomaly forecast of ECMWF for August to October 2018; (c) ECMWF; Source: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/charts/catalogue/

By now, there has been a lot of interesting coverage going on with Twitter. So please feel free and follow and contribute to #EuroDrought18!

Prolonged soil moisture droughts lead to hydrological and groundwater drought events. #EuroDrought18 seems to be one of those. See the TV coverage: forest fires, dry riverbeds, record low levels in the Elbe… https://t.co/YVVQMWH5hm

— Luis Samaniego (@lese66) July 5, 2018

This is why we have to move quickly on fish rescues.

Pools we rescued over 130 trout & salmon from yesterday on the upper River Teme are completely dry today. pic.twitter.com/BK5aUX25Uf

— Dave Throup (@DaveThroupEA) June 27, 2018

#EuroDrought18 #Saxony | (1) gridded SPIs 30d, 90d, 180d | (2) SPI-180d at stations | (3) annual SPI-180d at Eilenburg station | (4) 180d-rainfall totals stats at Eilenburg station | Reference: 1981-2010 | as of July 5, 2018 | #Germany #Dürre #Sachsen #Trockenheit #SPI #Drought pic.twitter.com/ldmgaXh0Zt

— Andy Philipp (@andy_philipp) July 5, 2018

Comparison of #soilmoisture and precipitation anomalies over Europe on May 2018 (upper panels) and May 2017 (lower panels)…
…in southern EU (we live in Italy 🇮🇹) we have experienced dry May in 2017, and wet May in 2018!
Thanks to @CopernicusEU C3S! pic.twitter.com/z4ejcWgIGx

— Hydrology IRPI-CNR (@Hydrology_IRPI) June 12, 2018

North-western Europe is getting drier and south-western Europe is getting wetter…the opposite of last year!#EuroDrought18 @CopernicusEU pic.twitter.com/6qhGBMNHm7

— Hydrology IRPI-CNR (@Hydrology_IRPI) July 6, 2018