{"id":163884,"date":"2026-04-02T02:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-01-2021-to-april-20-2021-at-14-0n-264-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:26:15","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-april-01-2021-to-april-20-2021-at-14-0n-264-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-01-2021-to-april-20-2021-at-14-0n-264-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from April 01 2021 to April 20 2021 at 14.0\u00b0N 264.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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>Bahamas<\/li>\n<li>Belize<\/li>\n<li>Cuba<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>Honduras<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua<\/li>\n<li>Turks and Caicos Islands<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 20 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 01 2021 to April 20 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -3.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 19.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -11.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -1.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 14.0\u00b0N 264.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 3645055 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0.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: Cold_spell_2021-Apr-01_to_2021-Apr-20_264.0_14.0<\/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): Bahamas Belize Cuba El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Turks and Caicos Islands United States Duration: 20 days Time span: April 01 2021 to April 20 2021 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -3.1 \u00b0C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-01-2021-to-april-20-2021-at-14-0n-264-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from April 01 2021 to April 20 2021 at 14.0\u00b0N 264.0\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":[2401,2450,2411,2389,2390,2391,2029,2392,2482,1251,2400,2258,2262,2264,2266,2268,1852,2272,2444,1250,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-bahamas","category-cold-spells-affecting-belize","category-cold-spells-affecting-cuba","category-cold-spells-affecting-el-salvador","category-cold-spells-affecting-guatemala","category-cold-spells-affecting-honduras","category-cold-spells-affecting-mexico","category-cold-spells-affecting-nicaragua","category-cold-spells-affecting-turks-and-caicos-islands","category-cold-spells-affecting-united-states","category-extremes-affecting-bahamas","category-extremes-affecting-belize","category-extremes-affecting-cuba","category-extremes-affecting-el-salvador","category-extremes-affecting-guatemala","category-extremes-affecting-honduras","category-extremes-affecting-mexico","category-extremes-affecting-nicaragua","category-extremes-affecting-turks-and-caicos-islands","category-extremes-affecting-united-states","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163884","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=163884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}