extreme #30943.0 June 09 2020 to April 21 2023 HEAT WAVE


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Event type: Heat wave

Countries affected: Australia, Canada, Georgia, Russian Federation, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Turkey

Lifetime: June 09 2020 to April 21 2023

Mean temperature anomaly: 9.9 C

Mean temperature: -7.9 C

Maximum temperature anomaly: 16.0 C

Maximum temperature: 30.1 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 %.