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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Bahamas
- Belgium
- Burkina Faso
- Canada
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Niger
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russian Federation
- Spain
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Sweden
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- United Kingdom
- United States
Duration: 112 days
Time span: June 23 2021 to October 12 2021
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: 3.8 °C
- Mean temperature: 12.4 °C
- Maximum temperature anomaly: 10.1 °C
- Maximum temperature: 41.9 °C
Event center: 30.0°N 0.0°E
Area affected: 35897257 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_2021-Jun-23_to_2021-Oct-12_339.0_72.0