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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected: Afghanistan, Algeria, Antarctica, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czechia, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan
Lifetime: May 02 2020 to April 09 2023
Mean temperature anomaly: 5.5 C
Mean temperature: 9.7 C
Maximum temperature anomaly: 15.1 C
Maximum temperature: 37.8 C
Fig. 1: Map of temperature anomalies (standardized). The green star indicates the center of the extreme event.
Fig. 2: Evolution of temperature at the center of the event. The climatological percentile distribution is illustrated with color shadings for the folloging limits: 0, 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100 %.