La siccità ungherese peggiora con il prosciugamento della Grande Pianura, dei fiumi e dei laghi
https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/09/hungary-drought-deepens-as-the-great-plain-turns-dusty-and-rivers-dry-up
di Wagamaga
La siccità ungherese peggiora con il prosciugamento della Grande Pianura, dei fiumi e dei laghi
https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/09/hungary-drought-deepens-as-the-great-plain-turns-dusty-and-rivers-dry-up
di Wagamaga
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The drought situation in Hungary is becoming increasingly worrying due to the persistent lack of rainfall. One year of the last five years’ rainfall is missing. The situation is most severe in the Great Plain.
The drought in Hungary has worsened. In the most affected areas of the Great Plain, there is a hundred and twenty millimetres of moisture missing from the soil, and there are only eighty. It also means a water crisis.
HungaroMet’s agrometeorological analysis warned that April this year has brought particularly bad weather from an agricultural point of view, with hardly any rainfall.
Over the last ninety days, rainfall has been twenty to seventy millimetres below average.
The soil surface is practically everywhere porous: the top twenty to thirty centimetres of soil is critically dry throughout the country, and the thirty to sixty centimetre layer is in an increasingly worrying condition.
And this is the country where the previous government thought it would be a great idea to have plenty of car battery manufacturer plants.
Fuck them all.
Climate change in action. But most of the populace don’t understand that.
This isn’t even just an agriculture problem anymore. Once groundwater and rivers start getting hit too, everybody feels it.
Better not look up the forecast for this summer… edit: actually, scratch that, misremembered it. It will be mighty hot but precipitation may be above normal for Hungary. https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-2026-record-breaking-intensity-forecast-weather-impacts-united-states-canada-europe-fa/
Same here in the very drought-prone Rheinhessen region (on a south-facing hill slope on top of that). I’m almost 40, have been living here my entire life and this year I’ve witnessed for the first time ever that the lawn in the garden has already shown massive drought damage (mass yellowing) in late April – this has never happened before, even May droughts had only been a thing during the last 10 – 15 years. Before that we had it happening in June/July/August maybe every 10 years
My weeping willow tree (yeah in hindisght it was stupid to even plant some thirsty flat-rooter like that 10 years ago, stupid me) has also been dropping leaves like crazy already in April (normally this only happens in late autumn, i.e. December or in previous droughts around July/August)
A wet/cold wave is supposed to roll in coming Monday, but this had also been forecast 2-3 weeks ago and only resulted in 3 mm of rain (despite the promised 10+) – I can only hope this one gets better