Category: Extremes affecting Iceland

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• Iceland

Duration: 7 days

Time span: July 23 2020 to July 29 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -4.6 °C
• Mean temperature: 5.0 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -6.7 °C
• Minimum temperature: -1.5 °C

Event center: 65.5°N 344.5°E

Area affected: 56570 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-Jul-23_to_2020-Jul-29_344.5_65.5

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Event type: Cold spell

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

• Iceland

Duration: 5 days

Time span: April 02 2020 to April 06 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: -4.3 °C
• Mean temperature: -1.1 °C
• Minimum temperature anomaly: -9.2 °C
• Minimum temperature: -13.0 °C

Event center: 60.5°N 330.0°E

Area affected: 310489 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-Apr-02_to_2020-Apr-06_330.0_60.5