1540 European drought

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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.^[2] These conclusions however were questioned by Büntgen et al. (2015)^[3] on the basis of additional data (tree rings).

Orth et al. (2016)^[4] 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.