A New Weighting Scheme in Weighted Markov Model for Predicting the Probability of Drought Episodes

Table 1

Drought classification criteria of SPTI [27].

SPTI values	Drought classes
	Extremely wet (EW)
	Severely wet (SW)
	Moderate wet (MW)
	Near normal (NN)
	Moderate drought (MD)
	Severe drought (SD)
	Extreme drought (ED)