Category: Extremes affecting Australia

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• Australia

Duration: 7 days

Time span: December 19 2022 to December 25 2022

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -3.6 °C
• Mean temperature: 26.1 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -5.8 °C
• Minimum temperature: 24.6 °C

Event center: -14.5°S 135.5°E

Area affected: 311915 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_2022-Dec-19_to_2022-Dec-25_135.5_-14.5

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• Australia

Duration: 5 days

Time span: December 18 2022 to December 22 2022

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -2.8 °C
• Mean temperature: 26.7 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -5.2 °C
• Minimum temperature: 24.8 °C

Event center: -21.0°S 117.5°E

Area affected: 156607 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_2022-Dec-18_to_2022-Dec-22_117.5_-21.0

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• Australia

Duration: 5 days

Time span: December 15 2022 to December 19 2022

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -8.1 °C
• Mean temperature: 20.3 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -11.9 °C
• Minimum temperature: 15.7 °C

Event center: -25.5°S 131.5°E

Area affected: 474518 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_2022-Dec-15_to_2022-Dec-19_131.5_-25.5

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• Australia

Duration: 18 days

Time span: December 11 2022 to December 28 2022

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -4.1 °C
• Mean temperature: 16.8 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -10.1 °C
• Minimum temperature: 4.0 °C

Event center: -32.0°S 153.0°E

Area affected: 4654917 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_2022-Dec-11_to_2022-Dec-28_153.0_-32.0