{"id":155448,"date":"2026-04-01T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-may-14-2020-to-june-08-2021-at-14-5s-251-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:36:50","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-may-14-2020-to-june-08-2021-at-14-5s-251-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-may-14-2020-to-june-08-2021-at-14-5s-251-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from May 14 2020 to June 08 2021 at -14.5\u00b0S 251.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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>Antarctica<\/li>\n<li>Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia, Plurinational State of<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador<\/li>\n<li>French Polynesia<\/li>\n<li>Paraguay<\/li>\n<li>Peru<\/li>\n<li>Uruguay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 391 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: May 14 2020 to June 08 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -1.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 21.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -13.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -28.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -14.5\u00b0S 251.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 46631849 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5.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-May-14_to_2021-Jun-08_251.0_-14.5<\/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): Antarctica Argentina Bolivia, Plurinational State of Brazil Chile Ecuador French Polynesia Paraguay Peru Uruguay Duration: 391 days Time span: May 14 2020 to June 08 2021 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -1.4 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-may-14-2020-to-june-08-2021-at-14-5s-251-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from May 14 2020 to June 08 2021 at -14.5\u00b0S 251.0\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":[2182,2176,2248,2009,2177,2380,2358,2156,2046,2245,1124,2149,1994,1838,2151,2249,2282,2155,1858,2187,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-antarctica","category-cold-spells-affecting-argentina","category-cold-spells-affecting-bolivia-plurinational-state-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-brazil","category-cold-spells-affecting-chile","category-cold-spells-affecting-ecuador","category-cold-spells-affecting-french-polynesia","category-cold-spells-affecting-paraguay","category-cold-spells-affecting-peru","category-cold-spells-affecting-uruguay","category-extremes-affecting-antarctica","category-extremes-affecting-argentina","category-extremes-affecting-bolivia-plurinational-state-of","category-extremes-affecting-brazil","category-extremes-affecting-chile","category-extremes-affecting-ecuador","category-extremes-affecting-french-polynesia","category-extremes-affecting-paraguay","category-extremes-affecting-peru","category-extremes-affecting-uruguay","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155448","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=155448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}