Jamaica Climate provides short and long term precipitation forecasts as well as drought monitoring products that will assist in making critical decisions about the growing season for crops as well as irrigation scheduling and water management.

This bulletin is aimed to provide the public with an instrument for quantitative monitoring of drought conditions in Italy and Europe, through monthly-updated maps of the Standardized Precipitation Index, this climatic index is widely employed in order to quantify the relative scarcity or abundance of precipitation. Maps on four areas (Italy, Europe, Mediterranean basin, and CADSES area), and for the 3-month, 6-month, 12-month and 24-month time scales from December 1989 to past month, are available through the menu above (select year, month and area).

One of the climatic phenomena that most affects the country's economic activities is drought, the Meteorological National System is responsible for detecting the current state and evolution of this phenomenon. To do this, it relies on the Mexican Drought Monitor (MDM), which in turn is part of the North American Drought Monitor (NADM).

The Drought Monitor was established in Montenegro within the IPA project DMCSEE (Drought Management Center for the Region of South East Europe www.dmcsee.org, www.dmcsee.eu) co-funded by the European Union through a program of interstate cooperation in South-East Europe.

he New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index. The index, called the New Zealand Drought Index (NZDI), is a climate data-based indicator of drought based on four commonly-used climatological drought indicators: the Standardised Precipitation Index, the Soil Moisture Deficit, the Soil Moisture Deficit Anomaly, and the Potential Evapotranspiration Deficit. The index has five categories: Dry, Very Dry, Extremely Dry, Drought, and Severe Drought. It is presented as a map and as charts; updated daily (note, there is a two-day time delay to ensure all available data is used).

From the beginning, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was used to define the behavior of precipitation in the dry and degraded areas of Panama, using 29 meteorological stations of the national network, which was very useful to define the character of the humidity of these areas of climatic vulnerability. Currently, most of the meteorological stations of the national network (77) were introduced, chosen due to the length and control of their records, according to the period defined by the SPI calculation method. In this way, it is possible to establish the behavior of the climatology of the dry and/or humid events, according to different periods, in all of Panama.

This section periodically publishes information on forecasts, statistics and general information on the activities carried out by the Directorate of Meteorology and Hydrology. You can download the material by clicking on its name and choosing save or run on your computer.

The Drought Observatory is a collection of maps and other figures that monitor drought at present, near furture and in the recent past. The maps and figures can be manipulated and are linked to the original data. Even if you are primarily interested in data rather than figures, this is a good place to see which datasets are particularly useful for monitoring current conditions

The Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation – State Research Institute, in accordance with an Act of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has developed the climatic water balance values for all 2478 Polish local districts (gminas) and, on the basis of soil categories, calculated the current risk of agricultural drought for the following crops: winter and spring cereals, rape and turnip rape, sugar beet, fruit shrubs and trees, and strawberries.

The Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMI) is a specialized organization providing hydrological and meteorological services at the national and international level. The SHMI was established by the former Ministry of Forestry and Water Management on 1 January 1969, and the scope of its activities is currently laid down in Act no. 201/2009 on state hydrological and meteorological services. The SHMI is the successor of institutions that were providing hydrological and meteorological services in Slovakia from the mid-19th century. It is state-subsidised organisation operating under the Slovak Ministry of Environment.

The Drought Status and Management information system is designed to provide regular overview and outlook of drought status in South Africa. The Drought Status and Management dashboard currently integrates rainfall, river flow, dam level and groundwater level data as the main indicators for generating drought status information. Other indicators such as vegetation condition will be added in future.

This section contains information on recent developments in the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), which is updated monthly and consists of: 1) A set of maps, each of which represents the distribution, within the national territory, of the values of the aforementioned SPI index, corresponding to a certain period of accumulation of precipitation. These periods are as follows: 1, 3 and 6 months; 1, 2 and 3 years, and the elapsed part of the current hydrometeorological year (starting on 1 September). 2) A table, showing the SPI values in a series of AEMET stations, for a set of precipitation accumulation periods, ranging from 1 month to 24 months. Email Share on Facebook 0 Share on Twitter

Different indices describe current drought or wetness at selected sites of MeteoSwiss' observation network. Indices are derived from primary meteorological measurements, and precipitation is the most important input. Some of the indices also consider evapotranspiration, which is depending on temperature, humidity, radiation and wind speed.