Category: Heat waves affecting Bahrain

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Bahrain

Duration: 6 days

Time span: August 13 2011 to August 18 2011

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 1.5 °C
• Mean temperature: 35.2 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 2.0 °C
• Maximum temperature: 36.2 °C

Event center: 28.5°N 50.5°E

Area affected: 73979 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: Heat_wave_2011-Aug-13_to_2011-Aug-18_50.5_28.5

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Bahrain

Duration: 4 days

Time span: April 20 2010 to April 23 2010

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 2.0 °C
• Mean temperature: 26.0 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 2.9 °C
• Maximum temperature: 27.8 °C

Event center: 26.5°N 50.5°E

Area affected: 54692 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: Heat_wave_2010-Apr-20_to_2010-Apr-23_50.5_26.5