Category: Heat waves affecting Egypt

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Egypt

Duration: 3 days

Time span: April 21 2025 to April 23 2025

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 7.4 °C
• Mean temperature: 30.9 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 11.6 °C
• Maximum temperature: 34.1 °C

Event center: 27.5°N 29.5°E

Area affected: 110041 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_2025-Apr-21_to_2025-Apr-23_29.5_27.5

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Egypt

Duration: 3 days

Time span: May 31 2023 to June 02 2023

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 4.9 °C
• Mean temperature: 31.6 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 8.3 °C
• Maximum temperature: 35.2 °C

Event center: 30.5°N 31.5°E

Area affected: 148480 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_2023-May-31_to_2023-Jun-02_31.5_30.5

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Event type: Heat wave

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

• Egypt

Duration: 7 days

Time span: August 19 2022 to August 25 2022

Statistics over entire affected area:

• Mean temperature anomaly: 2.7 °C
• Mean temperature: 32.6 °C
• Maximum temperature anomaly: 5.2 °C
• Maximum temperature: 37.2 °C

Event center: 29.5°N 29.0°E

Area affected: 367357 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_2022-Aug-19_to_2022-Aug-25_29.0_29.5