List of droughts
This is a list of significant droughts, organized by large geographical area and then year.
Africa
- 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia
- 2012 Sahel drought
- 2011 East Africa drought
- Malawian food crisis
- Sahel drought
- 2010 Sahel famine
Australia
- Drought in Australia
- 1911–16 Australian drought
- 1979–83 Eastern Australian drought
- 2000s Australian drought
- Federation Drought
China
South Pacific
North America
- 1983 United States drought
- 1988–89 North American drought
- 2002 North American drought
- 2010–13 Southern United States and Mexico drought
- 2012–13 North American drought
- Black Sunday (storm)
- Dust bowl of the 1930s
- Drought in California
- 2016 New York drought
South America
Anatolia
- Famine of 1872–1875[1]
Soviet Union
Europe
- 1955 United Kingdom Summer Heatwave
- 1990 United Kingdom Summer Heatwave
- There was also a severe drought during the hot summer of 1995 in the UK and Northern France
- Western Europe 2006 European heat wave
- Western Europe 2003 European heat wave
- Eastern Europe 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves
See also
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qadroughts.html
References
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