{"id":162863,"date":"2026-04-01T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-23-2021-to-march-17-2021-at-0-5s-23-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:58:02","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-february-23-2021-to-march-17-2021-at-0-5s-23-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-23-2021-to-march-17-2021-at-0-5s-23-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from February 23 2021 to March 17 2021 at -0.5\u00b0S 23.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Feb-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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>Angola<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burundi<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Congo<\/li>\n<li>Congo, The Democratic Republic of the<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Equatorial Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>Gabon<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Kenya<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania, United Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<li>Zambia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 23 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 23 2021 to March 17 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 28.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 6.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 35.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -0.5\u00b0S 23.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 4212455 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Feb-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5.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_2021-Feb-23_to_2021-Mar-17_23.0_-0.5<\/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): Angola Benin Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Congo Congo, The Democratic Republic of the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Kenya Nigeria Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania, United Republic of Togo Uganda Zambia Duration: 23 days Time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-23-2021-to-march-17-2021-at-0-5s-23-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from February 23 2021 to March 17 2021 at -0.5\u00b0S 23.0\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":[2235,2038,2195,2162,2002,1922,2332,2402,1956,2237,2293,1958,2044,2197,1960,2103,2346,1962,2199,2236,2039,2196,2314,2003,1923,2333,2403,2232,2238,2317,2102,2045,2198,2004,2104,2347,2105,2200,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-angola","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burundi","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-equatorial-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-ethiopia","category-extremes-affecting-gabon","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-kenya","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-rwanda","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-uganda","category-extremes-affecting-zambia","category-heat-waves-affecting-angola","category-heat-waves-affecting-benin","category-heat-waves-affecting-burundi","category-heat-waves-affecting-cameroon","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-heat-waves-affecting-cote-divoire","category-heat-waves-affecting-equatorial-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-ethiopia","category-heat-waves-affecting-gabon","category-heat-waves-affecting-ghana","category-heat-waves-affecting-kenya","category-heat-waves-affecting-nigeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-rwanda","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-togo","category-heat-waves-affecting-uganda","category-heat-waves-affecting-zambia","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162863","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=162863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}