Overall Green alert Drought for Saskatchewan (Canada)-2023
in Canada

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 1 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016298
Name: Saskatchewan (Canada)-2023
Countries: Canada
Start Date: End of Mar 2023
Duration: 79 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 30733 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2023. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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What's behind the Canadian wildfires blanketing the East Coast in smok ... 2023-06-08T13:45+0200.

Over the past six weeks, massive wildfires have spread across Canada causing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land larger than the state of Maryland. While the Canada wildfire season runs from May t
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What's behind the Canadian wildfires blanketing the East Coast in smok ... 2023-06-08T12:19+0200.

Canada wildfire smoke prompts air quality advisories for millions 04:21. Over the past six weeks, massive wildfires have spread across Canada causing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land — larger than
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Climate change is exacerbating forest fires and vice versa, experts sa ... 2023-06-08T03:05+0200.

Article content. He said vegetation in the eastern part of the country is less adapted to fires. Because precipitation is usually more frequent in the east at this time of year, the vegetation constantly draws moisture from the soil and the
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What's behind the Canadian wildfires blanketing the East Coast in smok ... 2023-06-07T23:54+0200.

Over the past six weeks, massive wildfires have spread across Canada causing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land larger than the state of Maryland. While the Canada wildfire season runs from May throu
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (37), WMO (1), INFORM (2),