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Drought Watch (3-month rainfall by admin 1)

For every admin 1 unit in the HDX HAPI rainfall feed (about 1,500 units in 127 countries), the last nine dekads of CHIRPS rainfall summed against the long-term average for the same dekads, classified in the percent-of-average bands drought monitors use, with a dry-season guard so a deficit against a few millimetres is never reported, and rolled up to a country watch level. Computed by PRISM from the rainfall it already refreshes; nothing is fetched to serve it.

Geographic coverage127 countries at admin 1
Temporal coverageRolling three-month window ending at the latest published dekad
Update cadenceRecomputed whenever the rainfall feed refreshes (daily sweep)
AccessDrought Watch tab of the climate module and the Climate tab of every covered country; JSON at /api/climate/drought-watch
LicenceClassification and roll-up CC BY-SA 4.0; CHIRPS rainfall via HDX HAPI under its own open terms.
Cite this dataset
PRISM (2026). Drought Watch (3-month rainfall by admin 1). PRISM, Protection, Risk & Impact Severity Monitor. Version 5.0. Classification and roll-up CC BY-SA 4.0; CHIRPS rainfall via HDX HAPI under its own open terms. Retrieved 2026-09-15, from https://www.prismonitor.eu/data/drought-watch
Download .bib.ris · version 5.0 · retrieved 2026-09-15
PRISM (2026). Drought Watch: three-month rainfall against the long-term average by admin 1 unit. https://www.prismonitor.eu/data/drought-watch — cite CHIRPS and OCHA HDX HAPI for the rainfall.
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