Over the last 15 years, there has been a significant increase in the occurrence of extreme daily and multiday precipitation totals, which has resulted in an increase in the risk of localised flooding in various areas of the Slovak Republic. On the other hand, local or widespread droughts occurred much more frequently in the period 1989-2020 than before, mainly caused by long periods of relatively warm weather with low precipitation totals in some parts of the growing season. Drought was particularly pronounced in 1990-1994, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007, and in some regions in western Slovakia in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Over the last 15 years, there has been a significant increase in the occurrence of extreme daily and multiday precipitation totals, which has resulted in an increase in the risk of localised flooding in various areas of the Slovak Republic. On the other hand, local or widespread droughts occurred much more frequently in the period 1989-2020 than before, mainly caused by long periods of relatively warm weather with low precipitation totals in some parts of the growing season. Drought was particularly pronounced in 1990-1994, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007, and in some regions in western Slovakia in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
['Residents of drought-prone regions']