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October 2024 Global Drought Narrative

NCEI Monthly Report · last updated
Overview: GDIS global indicators revealed beneficial precipitation fell across parts of drought-plagued South America and Africa, as well as much of Europe and Asia, during October 2024, while other parts of those continents and Australia, as well as much of North America, were dry. South America had the second driest October on record and North America the 12th driest, continent-wide (based on the 1940-2024 ECMWF ERA5 Reanalysis dataset).