{"id":154473,"date":"2026-04-01T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2020-to-april-18-2020-at-48-0n-358-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:01:19","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2020-to-april-18-2020-at-48-0n-358-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2020-to-april-18-2020-at-48-0n-358-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 05 2020 to April 18 2020 at 48.0\u00b0N 358.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.json\">JSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event type: Heat wave<\/p>\n<p>Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Austria<\/li>\n<li>Belgium<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Czechia<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Luxembourg<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 14 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 05 2020 to April 18 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 4.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 11.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 8.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 18.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 49.0\u00b0N 0.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2461636 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.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-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.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-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.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-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.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-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.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-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0.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: Heat_wave_2020-Apr-05_to_2020-Apr-18_358.5_48.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: JSON Event type: Heat wave Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference): Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Latvia Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Russian Federation Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Duration: 14 days Time span: April 05 2020 to April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2020-to-april-18-2020-at-48-0n-358-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 05 2020 to April 18 2020 at 48.0\u00b0N 358.5\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":[2051,2053,2055,1964,2059,2061,1871,1873,1950,2063,2337,1966,1875,2070,2076,1890,2080,1842,1968,1954,1879,2086,2090,2052,2054,2056,1965,2060,2062,1872,1874,1951,2064,2338,1967,1876,2071,2077,1891,2081,1843,1969,1955,1880,2087,2091,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-austria","category-extremes-affecting-belgium","category-extremes-affecting-bosnia-and-herzegovina","category-extremes-affecting-croatia","category-extremes-affecting-czechia","category-extremes-affecting-denmark","category-extremes-affecting-estonia","category-extremes-affecting-finland","category-extremes-affecting-france","category-extremes-affecting-germany","category-extremes-affecting-ireland","category-extremes-affecting-italy","category-extremes-affecting-latvia","category-extremes-affecting-luxembourg","category-extremes-affecting-netherlands","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-poland","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-slovenia","category-extremes-affecting-spain","category-extremes-affecting-sweden","category-extremes-affecting-switzerland","category-extremes-affecting-united-kingdom","category-heat-waves-affecting-austria","category-heat-waves-affecting-belgium","category-heat-waves-affecting-bosnia-and-herzegovina","category-heat-waves-affecting-croatia","category-heat-waves-affecting-czechia","category-heat-waves-affecting-denmark","category-heat-waves-affecting-estonia","category-heat-waves-affecting-finland","category-heat-waves-affecting-france","category-heat-waves-affecting-germany","category-heat-waves-affecting-ireland","category-heat-waves-affecting-italy","category-heat-waves-affecting-latvia","category-heat-waves-affecting-luxembourg","category-heat-waves-affecting-netherlands","category-heat-waves-affecting-norway","category-heat-waves-affecting-poland","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-slovenia","category-heat-waves-affecting-spain","category-heat-waves-affecting-sweden","category-heat-waves-affecting-switzerland","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-kingdom","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154473","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=154473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}