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>Prolonged heat and dryness during the summer of 2018 has turned formerly green fields into dusty, dying patches of soil all across Europe, leading to drought across many countries.
>According to the European Commission’s European Drought Observatory, much of northern Europe is under some form of dryness. The areas under “alert” status—where vegetation is currently being stressed—are located across Denmark, England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia.
>Their preliminary analysis found that human-cause climate change has increased the likelihood of this summer’s heat wave by five times in Denmark, three times in the Netherlands, and two times in Ireland. For Scandinavia, the scientists concluded that climate change did increase the odds of a heat wave, but the variability in the data made it hard to say by exactly how much.


https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/hot-dry-summer-has-led-drought-europe-2018