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Drought declared in Yorkshire after months of dry weather

Rank
Running: 18h
Updated: 10h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 3
Countries: 4
Languages: 3

Sky News United Kingdom · English 9 Oct, 11:14 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · +1 language

Read at Sky News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Sky News, 9 Oct, 11:14 UTC.
Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 9 Oct, 11:14 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%16%67%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 16%
Europe 4 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

Sky News 9 Oct, 11:14 UTC
The Independent +10m
BBC News +47m
Bloomberg +57m
China News Service +2h 47m

Latest arrivals

Der Spiegel 9 Oct, 19:26 UTC
China News Service 9 Oct, 14:01 UTC
Bloomberg 9 Oct, 12:10 UTC
BBC News 9 Oct, 12:00 UTC
The Independent 9 Oct, 11:24 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: China. Europe 2: Germany, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: German, English, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Sky News, 9 Oct 2026, 11:14 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 19:26 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.48, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

9 Oct 2026 220 3.68 6 4 6 4 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 11:30 UTC · Updated 19:26 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Der Spiegel Germany 9 Oct, 19:26 UTC
England erweitert Dürregebiet auf 82 Prozent seiner Fläche
China News Service China 9 Oct, 14:01 UTC
英国约克郡正式进入干旱状态
The Independent United Kingdom 9 Oct, 12:44 UTC
What changes now that drought has been declared in Yorkshire
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Drought declared in Yorkshire as reservoirs and rivers run low after months of dry weather 9 Oct, 11:24 UTC
Bloomberg United States 9 Oct, 12:10 UTC
UK’s Yorkshire Enters Drought Even as Rain Starts to Fall
BBC News United Kingdom 9 Oct, 12:00 UTC
Drought declared in Yorkshire after dry weather
Sky News United Kingdom 9 Oct, 11:14 UTC
Drought declared in Yorkshire