{"id":153973,"date":"2026-04-01T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-21-2020-to-march-28-2020-at-18-0s-317-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:42:25","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-march-21-2020-to-march-28-2020-at-18-0s-317-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-21-2020-to-march-28-2020-at-18-0s-317-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from March 21 2020 to March 28 2020 at -18.0\u00b0S 317.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.json\">JSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event type: Cold spell<\/p>\n<p>Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 8 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 21 2020 to March 28 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -2.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 22.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -4.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 16.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -18.0\u00b0S 317.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 1653515 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 1: Map of most extreme temperature anomalies (standardized) experienced during the event. The purple star indicates the center of the extreme event. Green hatching illustrates all areas under the effect of extremes at some time during the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_time_evo_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_time_evo_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 2: Evolution of temperature at the center of the event. The climatological percentile distribution is illustrated with color shadings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 3: Maps illustrating the evolution of standardized temperature anomalies during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Event ID: Cold_spell_2020-Mar-21_to_2020-Mar-28_317.0_-18.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: JSON Event type: Cold spell Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference): Brazil Duration: 8 days Time span: March 21 2020 to March 28 2020 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -2.0 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 22.2 \u00b0C Minimum temperature anomaly: -4.1 \u00b0C Minimum temperature: 16.4 \u00b0C Event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-21-2020-to-march-28-2020-at-18-0s-317-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from March 21 2020 to March 28 2020 at -18.0\u00b0S 317.0\u00b0E&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2009,1838,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-brazil","category-extremes-affecting-brazil","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}