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Event type: Cold spell
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Albania
- Algeria
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Canarias
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Congo DRC
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Palestinian Territory
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Slovenia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkiye
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Yemen
Duration: 33 days
Time span: December 17 2014 to January 18 2015
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: -4.4 °C
- Mean temperature: 12.7 °C
- Minimum temperature anomaly: -22.4 °C
- Minimum temperature: -24.6 °C
Event center: 3.0°N 16.0°E
Area affected: 21310172 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: Cold_spell_2014-Dec-17_to_2015-Jan-18_16.0_3.0