Category: Cold spells affecting French Southern Territories

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 4 days

Time span: June 05 2025 to June 08 2025

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -1.8 °C
• Mean temperature: 1.1 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -4.8 °C
• Minimum temperature: -3.2 °C

Event center: -49.5°S 70.0°E

Area affected: 133523 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_2025-Jun-05_to_2025-Jun-08_70.0_-49.5

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 3 days

Time span: July 02 2024 to July 04 2024

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -3.2 °C
• Mean temperature: 3.8 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -7.6 °C
• Minimum temperature: -7.0 °C

Event center: -49.5°S 70.0°E

Area affected: 360059 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_2024-Jul-02_to_2024-Jul-04_70.0_-49.5

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 3 days

Time span: August 14 2021 to August 16 2021

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -2.2 °C
• Mean temperature: 0.0 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -4.9 °C
• Minimum temperature: -4.4 °C

Event center: -51.5°S 70.0°E

Area affected: 380399 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_2021-Aug-14_to_2021-Aug-16_70.0_-51.5

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 13 days

Time span: March 12 2021 to March 24 2021

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -2.5 °C
• Mean temperature: 0.3 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -8.6 °C
• Minimum temperature: -18.5 °C

Event center: -66.0°S 64.0°E

Area affected: 4599906 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_2021-Mar-12_to_2021-Mar-24_64.0_-66.0

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 6 days

Time span: October 24 2020 to October 29 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -2.0 °C
• Mean temperature: 0.1 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -4.4 °C
• Minimum temperature: -4.1 °C

Event center: -46.5°S 80.0°E

Area affected: 1317837 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_2020-Oct-24_to_2020-Oct-29_80.0_-46.5

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 3 days

Time span: August 10 2020 to August 12 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -2.6 °C
• Mean temperature: 0.0 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -7.7 °C
• Minimum temperature: -7.4 °C

Event center: -49.5°S 70.0°E

Area affected: 113068 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_2020-Aug-10_to_2020-Aug-12_70.0_-49.5

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Event type: Cold spell

Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):

• French Southern Territories

Duration: 8 days

Time span: January 17 2020 to January 24 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -2.4 °C
• Mean temperature: 6.0 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -5.2 °C
• Minimum temperature: 1.5 °C

Event center: -45.0°S 58.0°E

Area affected: 1273262 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_2020-Jan-17_to_2020-Jan-24_58.0_-45.0