{"id":155753,"date":"2026-04-01T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-26-2020-to-june-17-2020-at-9-0n-25-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:47:29","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-may-26-2020-to-june-17-2020-at-9-0n-25-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-26-2020-to-june-17-2020-at-9-0n-25-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from May 26 2020 to June 17 2020 at 9.0\u00b0N 25.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Congo, The Democratic Republic of the<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>Gambia<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 23 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: May 26 2020 to June 17 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 34.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 7.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 40.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 9.0\u00b0N 25.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 6716132 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0.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-May-26_to_2020-Jun-17_25.0_9.0<\/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): Algeria Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Guinea-Bissau Libya Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal South Sudan Sudan Duration: 23 days Time span: May 26 2020 to June 17 2020 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-26-2020-to-june-17-2020-at-9-0n-25-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from May 26 2020 to June 17 2020 at 9.0\u00b0N 25.0\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":[1924,2162,2002,2093,1922,1938,1956,2374,2376,1944,1926,1928,2042,2044,1930,1960,1940,1925,2314,2003,2094,1923,2313,2232,2375,2377,2388,1927,1929,2043,2045,2378,2004,2280,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-extremes-affecting-eritrea","category-extremes-affecting-ethiopia","category-extremes-affecting-gambia","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-algeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-cameroon","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-heat-waves-affecting-eritrea","category-heat-waves-affecting-ethiopia","category-heat-waves-affecting-gambia","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-heat-waves-affecting-libya","category-heat-waves-affecting-mali","category-heat-waves-affecting-mauritania","category-heat-waves-affecting-niger","category-heat-waves-affecting-nigeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-senegal","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155753","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=155753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}