Category: Heat waves affecting Brazil

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Brazil

Duration: 8 days

Time span: January 28 2020 to February 04 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 1.3 °C
• Mean temperature: 26.6 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 2.0 °C
• Maximum temperature: 27.5 °C

Event center: -23.5°S 318.0°E

Area affected: 53780 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_2020-Jan-28_to_2020-Feb-04_318.0_-23.5

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Brazil

Duration: 3 days

Time span: January 24 2020 to January 26 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 1.7 °C
• Mean temperature: 27.0 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 2.6 °C
• Maximum temperature: 28.4 °C

Event center: -5.0°S 307.0°E

Area affected: 126203 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_2020-Jan-24_to_2020-Jan-26_307.0_-5.0

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Brazil

Duration: 6 days

Time span: January 11 2020 to January 16 2020

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 2.3 °C
• Mean temperature: 27.3 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 3.2 °C
• Maximum temperature: 29.8 °C

Event center: -14.0°S 305.5°E

Area affected: 56915 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_2020-Jan-11_to_2020-Jan-16_305.5_-14.0