Category: Cold spells affecting United States

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• United States

Duration: 8 days

Time span: August 08 2024 to August 15 2024

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -3.7 °C
• Mean temperature: 8.4 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -7.8 °C
• Minimum temperature: -1.6 °C

Event center: 60.0°N 202.0°E

Area affected: 505034 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-Aug-08_to_2024-Aug-15_202.0_60.0

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• United States

Duration: 4 days

Time span: July 27 2024 to July 30 2024

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -6.8 °C
• Mean temperature: 3.4 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -10.4 °C
• Minimum temperature: -0.7 °C

Event center: 69.0°N 206.5°E

Area affected: 70507 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-27_to_2024-Jul-30_206.5_69.0

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• United States

Duration: 21 days

Time span: July 27 2024 to August 16 2024

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -1.7 °C
• Mean temperature: 14.3 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -5.4 °C
• Minimum temperature: 11.8 °C

Event center: 36.0°N 238.0°E

Area affected: 70884 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-27_to_2024-Aug-16_238.0_36.0

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• United States

Duration: 6 days

Time span: July 04 2024 to July 09 2024

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -4.8 °C
• Mean temperature: 19.6 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -7.2 °C
• Minimum temperature: 17.7 °C

Event center: 40.5°N 260.5°E

Area affected: 63346 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-04_to_2024-Jul-09_260.5_40.5