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Event type: Cold spell
Countries affected: Algeria, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Georgia, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Turkey
Lifetime: May 08 2020 to April 01 2023
Mean temperature anomaly: -1.6 C
Mean temperature: 18.9 C
Minimum temperature anomaly: -11.9 C
Minimum temperature: -41.8 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 %.