In the upper of the two graphs, the column size corresponds to the values of average summer meteorological water balance for Slovenia for individual years in accordance with the scale on the vertical axis; the number below the column represents the number of regions with extreme drought in the given year; the column colour indicates the spatial extent of extreme drought conditions in Slovenia in accordance with the provided legend; and stripes are added to columns for years when drought was declared a natural disaster on the basis of Natural Disaster Recovery Act. For each year, the number displayed in the upper graph is consistent with the number of extremely dry regions in the lower graph (visualized as large circles). The spatial extent of extreme drought does not necessarily coincide with the column size of the average summer water balance for Slovenia or the government declaration of drought as a national disaster. For example, in 2007 a deficit in average summer water balance is recorded for Slovenia, however it was more or less evenly distributed (as can be seen from the lower of both graphs), so no region experienced a water balance deficit that would exceed 95th percentile of the reference period. An even less pronounced was average summer water balance deficit for Slovenia in 2006, but it was mostly present in one region where it also exceeded 95th percentile and is therefore treated as drought of local extent. The agricultural drought indicator clearly shows concentration of droughts as well as an increase in spatial dimension of extreme droughts since 2000. In that period, drought was most severe in 2003, 2013 and 2022.