Hungary drought deepens as the Great Plain turns dusty and rivers dry up

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.