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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected: Canada, China, Tanzania, United Republic of, United States, Zambia
Lifetime: May 08 2020 to March 31 2023
Mean temperature anomaly: 1.1 C
Mean temperature: 4.2 C
Maximum temperature anomaly: 11.1 C
Maximum temperature: 29.0 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 %.