worst in 500 years until next year
Europe's drought could be the worst in 500 years, warns researcher | Euronewshttps://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/08/10/europes-drought-could-be-the-worst-in-500-years-warns-researcher"We haven't analysed fully the event (this year's drought), because it is still ongoing, but based on my experience I think that this is perhaps even more extreme than 2018," he said.
"Just to give you an idea the 2018 drought was so extreme that, looking back at least the last 500 years, there were no other events similar to the drought of 2018, but this year I think it is really worse than 2018."
According to Toreti, what is causing concern is that "looking at the next three months, we see still a very high risk of dry conditions over western and central Europe, as well as the UK."
Toreti said that the areas affected by drought and lack of water will increase and that if effective mitigation measures are not taken "this intensity and frequency will increase dramatically over Europe, both in the north and in the south."