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Event type: Cold spell
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Libya
- Saudi Arabia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Uganda
- Yemen
Duration: 22 days
Time span: January 20 2020 to February 10 2020
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: -3.9 °C
- Mean temperature: 17.8 °C
- Minimum temperature anomaly: -8.7 °C
- Minimum temperature: 4.8 °C
Event center: 4.5°N 34.5°E
Area affected: 5436071 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-20_to_2020-Feb-10_34.5_4.5
