#EuroDrought18: brief update for Saxony, Germany

Herausforderung #Klimawandel: staubtrockene Felder & Wälder, schmale #Flüsse & trocken gefallene #Bäche, sinkende #Grundwasser-Stände – in der Animation haben wir die Entwicklung des extremen Niederschlagsdefizits des Jahres 2018 visualisiert. @DWD_presse #LHWZ #Klimafolgen pic.twitter.com/mzKBID5Lt5

— Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie (@LfULG) December 20, 2018

This is how the SPI-180d evolved in 2018 for Saxony, Germany; very likely that the start of the upcoming year 2019 will be significantly drier than the beginning of 2018. HOWEVER, (even deeper) droughts of course occurred in former times. So, lining out a direct connection from the 2018 drought to climate change is a bit speculative (one cannot infer climatologically robust information from single events)…

N.B.: Linking single events to Climate Change is not unproblematic (#Klimafolgen) as stated in this post.