1540 "European Drought": a climatic event that caused many city fires. (1 gen 1452 anni – 21 dic 1452 anni)

Descrizione:

The 1540 drought in Europe was a climatic event in Europe. In various palaeoclimatic analyses the temperature and precipitation regimes were reconstructed and compared to present-day conditions.

On the basis of historical records Wetter et al. (2014)[1] derived that during an eleven-month period there was little rain in Europe, possibly qualifying as a megadrought. These conclusions however were questioned by Büntgen et al. (2015) on the basis of additional data (tree rings).

Orth et al. (2016) concluded that in summer 1540 the mean temperature was above the 1966–2015 mean and with a probability of 20% exceeded that of the 2003 summer; however, the study's mean reconstruction suggests that the summer of 2003 was still overall hotter across much of Europe.

In the year 1540, there was an unusually high number of city fires, surpassing only during the height of the Thirty Years' War, in a year without major war damages. In Einbeck, the Kumme Wasser, a stream flowing through the city, was likely dried up.