extreme #30940.0 June 04 2020 to April 16 2023 HEAT WAVE


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Event type: Heat wave

Countries affected: Canada, France, Georgia, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Ireland, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United States

Lifetime: June 04 2020 to April 16 2023

Mean temperature anomaly: 2.6 C

Mean temperature: 5.2 C

Maximum temperature anomaly: 22.8 C

Maximum temperature: 21.4 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 %.