The 12-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-12) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 12-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir s...

The 9-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-9) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 9-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for medium-term impacts, for example reduced stream flow and reservoir stor...

The 3-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-3) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 3-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for immediate impacts of droughts, such as reduced soil moisture, snowpack,...

The 1-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-1) is a meteorological drought indicator to monitor precipitation anomalies over 1-month accumulation periods and is a proxy indicator for immediate impacts of droughts such as reduced soil moisture, snowpack, ...

Activation date: 2021-04-30 Event type: Mass movement Activation reason: The service was activated by a request from the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) on behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusam...

Activation date: 2021-04-29 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated for a retrospective assessment of two floods waves registered in the upper reaches of two rivers, Nidder and Seemenbach, located i...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-05-21 07:21:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-05-20 14:30:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Extensive spring floods are on going in Finnish Lapland due to the melting snow in northern parts of Lapland. Warming ...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-05-23 23:27:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-05-22 19:00:00 Event type: Volcanic activity (Lava flow) Activation reason: Nyiragongo volcano (Democratic Republic of Congo) erupted on 22 May. The volcano last erupted in January 2002 k...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-06-14 02:34:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-06-07 13:00:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Heavy rainfall during the month of June flooded more than 28000 households in Guyana. The high water registered due to...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-05-21 11:58:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-05-20 09:45:00 Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire) Activation reason: On 05/20/2021, a major forest fire started on the Island of Tenerife (Canary Islands). This fire mainly affects the mu...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-05-20 08:24:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-05-19 23:00:00 Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire) Activation reason: A large wildfire burning large areas of pine forest in the area of Schinos, in Corinthia prefecture, broke out on Wedn...

Activation date: 2021-04-27 Event type: Storm Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated to assess the effects of the Eta and Iota hurricanes that hit Autonomous Region of the North and South Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua,...

Activation date: 2021-03-29 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated by the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) on behalf of Bezirksregierung Münster, for a retrospe...

Activation date: 2021-03-12 Event type: Mass movement Activation reason: The scope of the current activation is the support of Regional Civil Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) with geospatial analysis regarding the extent of the recent aval...

Activation date: 2021-02-10 Event type: Storm Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated to support emergency operations or recovery after a major natural disaster such as flooding or tropical cyclones in Mozambique. To...

Activation date: 2021-03-23 Event type: Wildfire Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard service has been activated to support the assessment of the wildfire events that have affected the Piedmont region, in Italy, between the 14th and...

Activation date: 2020-12-03 Event type: Storm Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated to assess the effects of Eta and Iota hurricanes that hit Central America starting from the beginning of November 2020. Two areas ...

Activation time (UTC): 2020-12-06 14:26:00 Event time (UTC): 2020-12-06 06:00:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: In the early hours of December 6, 2020, a strong weather system hit northern Italy with heavy rain and much snow. The ...

Activation time (UTC): 2020-11-11 12:14:00 Event time (UTC): 2020-11-06 10:00:00 Event type: Storm (Tropical cyclone, hurricane, typhoon) Activation reason: Hurricane Eta began impacting Honduras on 04 November, triggering large scale historic level flo...