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Event type: Cold spell
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Antarctica
- Argentina
- Chile
- Falkland Islands
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Duration: 17 days
Time span: February 26 2017 to March 14 2017
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: -3.4 °C
- Mean temperature: 3.2 °C
- Minimum temperature anomaly: -10.0 °C
- Minimum temperature: -17.1 °C
Event center: -52.0°S 309.5°E
Area affected: 3640210 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_2017-Feb-26_to_2017-Mar-14_309.5_-52.0