As a data journalist who is also a
👨🌾 gardener and concerned about the #climatecrisis, I started to look into droughts in Europe, found soil moisture anomaly maps by the European Drought Observatory and counted pixels to see how bad it is. (tl;dr: it's bad) https://vis4.net/drought-in-europe/
@gka That's a fantastic piece, and also terrifying.
This may be of interest to you as well, if you're not already familiar with it: http://spei.csic.es/index.html
Growing up in Colorado, droughts have been a concern for me for most of my life.