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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected: Albania, Algeria, Antarctica, Armenia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States
Lifetime: June 02 2020 to April 16 2023
Mean temperature anomaly: 3.0 C
Mean temperature: 17.8 C
Maximum temperature anomaly: 13.4 C
Maximum temperature: 30.9 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 %.