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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 %.