{"id":158083,"date":"2026-04-01T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-11-2020-to-october-13-2020-at-32-5s-240-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:07:50","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-august-11-2020-to-october-13-2020-at-32-5s-240-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-11-2020-to-october-13-2020-at-32-5s-240-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from August 11 2020 to October 13 2020 at -32.5\u00b0S 240.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Fiji<\/li>\n<li>French Polynesia<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>Norfolk Island<\/li>\n<li>Samoa<\/li>\n<li>Solomon Islands<\/li>\n<li>Tonga<\/li>\n<li>Vanuatu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 64 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: August 11 2020 to October 13 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 17.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 6.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 28.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -32.5\u00b0S 240.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 28663922 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5.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: Heat_wave_2020-Aug-11_to_2020-Oct-13_240.5_-32.5<\/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): Australia Fiji French Polynesia New Zealand Norfolk Island Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu Duration: 64 days Time span: August 11 2020 to October 13 2020 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 2.1 \u00b0C Mean temperature: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-11-2020-to-october-13-2020-at-32-5s-240-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from August 11 2020 to October 13 2020 at -32.5\u00b0S 240.5\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":[1126,2193,2282,2030,2359,2351,2153,2287,2230,1868,2194,2283,2131,2360,2352,2154,2288,2231,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-australia","category-extremes-affecting-fiji","category-extremes-affecting-french-polynesia","category-extremes-affecting-new-zealand","category-extremes-affecting-norfolk-island","category-extremes-affecting-samoa","category-extremes-affecting-solomon-islands","category-extremes-affecting-tonga","category-extremes-affecting-vanuatu","category-heat-waves-affecting-australia","category-heat-waves-affecting-fiji","category-heat-waves-affecting-french-polynesia","category-heat-waves-affecting-new-zealand","category-heat-waves-affecting-norfolk-island","category-heat-waves-affecting-samoa","category-heat-waves-affecting-solomon-islands","category-heat-waves-affecting-tonga","category-heat-waves-affecting-vanuatu","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158083","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=158083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}