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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belize
- Bhutan
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of
- Korea, Republic of
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Mali
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Moldova, Republic of
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Taiwan, Province of China
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
Duration: 154 days
Time span: November 17 2020 to April 19 2021
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: 4.3 °C
- Mean temperature: 16.8 °C
- Maximum temperature anomaly: 27.4 °C
- Maximum temperature: 37.1 °C
Event center: 16.5°N 134.5°E
Area affected: 124427445 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-Nov-17_to_2021-Apr-19_134.5_16.5
