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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Azores
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Canarias
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Madeira
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestinian Territory
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Saint Eustatius
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Duration: 148 days
Time span: November 17 2020 to April 13 2021
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: 3.9 °C
- Mean temperature: 18.5 °C
- Maximum temperature anomaly: 27.6 °C
- Maximum temperature: 37.1 °C
Event center: 16.5°N 134.5°E
Area affected: 131991727 km$^2$
Fig. 1: Map of most extreme temperature anomalies (standardized) experienced during the event. The purple star indicates the center of the extreme event. Green hatching illustrates all areas under the effect of extremes at some time during the event.
Fig. 2: Evolution of temperature at the center of the event. The climatological percentile distribution is illustrated with color shadings.
Fig. 3: Maps illustrating the evolution of standardized temperature anomalies during the event.
Event ID: Heat_wave_2020-Nov-17_to_2021-Apr-13_134.5_16.5