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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Congo
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Moldova, Republic of
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Türkiye
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Uzbekistan
Duration: 123 days
Time span: October 14 2020 to February 13 2021
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: 4.8 °C
- Mean temperature: 18.7 °C
- Maximum temperature anomaly: 17.0 °C
- Maximum temperature: 32.7 °C
Event center: 3.5°N 19.5°E
Area affected: 37333109 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-Oct-14_to_2021-Feb-13_347.5_11.5