{"id":162663,"date":"2026-04-01T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-16-2021-to-march-01-2021-at-3-5n-36-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:50:55","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-february-16-2021-to-march-01-2021-at-3-5n-36-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-16-2021-to-march-01-2021-at-3-5n-36-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from February 16 2021 to March 01 2021 at 3.5\u00b0N 36.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Djibouti<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Kenya<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania, United Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 14 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 16 2021 to March 01 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -4.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 18.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -9.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 3.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 3.5\u00b0N 36.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 7669650 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5.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_2021-Feb-16_to_2021-Mar-01_36.5_3.5<\/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): Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Djibouti Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Libya Niger Nigeria Saudi Arabia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania, United Republic of Togo Uganda Duration: 14 days Time span: February 16 2021 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-16-2021-to-march-01-2021-at-3-5n-36-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from February 16 2021 to March 01 2021 at 3.5\u00b0N 36.5\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":[2092,2421,2422,2163,2133,2134,2137,2139,1939,1957,2294,2140,1945,2165,2141,1961,1941,2142,2423,2143,1924,2038,2040,2162,2002,2093,2136,2138,1938,1956,2293,1958,1944,2042,2044,2115,1960,1940,2103,2346,1962,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-algeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-benin","category-cold-spells-affecting-burkina-faso","category-cold-spells-affecting-cameroon","category-cold-spells-affecting-central-african-republic","category-cold-spells-affecting-chad","category-cold-spells-affecting-djibouti","category-cold-spells-affecting-egypt","category-cold-spells-affecting-eritrea","category-cold-spells-affecting-ethiopia","category-cold-spells-affecting-ghana","category-cold-spells-affecting-kenya","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-nigeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-cold-spells-affecting-south-sudan","category-cold-spells-affecting-sudan","category-cold-spells-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-togo","category-cold-spells-affecting-uganda","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-djibouti","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-eritrea","category-extremes-affecting-ethiopia","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-kenya","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-uganda","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162663","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=162663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}