{"id":165359,"date":"2026-04-02T03:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-may-19-2021-to-june-13-2021-at-10-0s-22-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:17:19","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-may-19-2021-to-june-13-2021-at-10-0s-22-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-may-19-2021-to-june-13-2021-at-10-0s-22-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from May 19 2021 to June 13 2021 at -10.0\u00b0S 22.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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>Angola<\/li>\n<li>Botswana<\/li>\n<li>Congo, The Democratic Republic of the<\/li>\n<li>Eswatini<\/li>\n<li>Madagascar<\/li>\n<li>Malawi<\/li>\n<li>Mozambique<\/li>\n<li>Namibia<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania, United Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Zambia<\/li>\n<li>Zimbabwe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 26 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: May 19 2021 to June 13 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -2.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 18.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -6.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 9.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -10.0\u00b0S 22.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 4856889 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0.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-May-19_to_2021-Jun-13_22.5_-10.0<\/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): Angola Botswana Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Eswatini Madagascar Malawi Mozambique Namibia South Africa Tanzania, United Republic of Zambia Zimbabwe Duration: 26 days Time span: May 19 2021 to June 13 2021 Statistics over entire affected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-may-19-2021-to-june-13-2021-at-10-0s-22-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from May 19 2021 to June 13 2021 at -10.0\u00b0S 22.5\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":[2253,2227,2135,2229,2132,2410,2146,2252,2128,2142,2254,2148,2235,2226,1922,2228,1974,2110,2145,2251,2127,2103,2199,2147,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-angola","category-cold-spells-affecting-botswana","category-cold-spells-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-cold-spells-affecting-eswatini","category-cold-spells-affecting-madagascar","category-cold-spells-affecting-malawi","category-cold-spells-affecting-mozambique","category-cold-spells-affecting-namibia","category-cold-spells-affecting-south-africa","category-cold-spells-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-zambia","category-cold-spells-affecting-zimbabwe","category-extremes-affecting-angola","category-extremes-affecting-botswana","category-extremes-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-extremes-affecting-eswatini","category-extremes-affecting-madagascar","category-extremes-affecting-malawi","category-extremes-affecting-mozambique","category-extremes-affecting-namibia","category-extremes-affecting-south-africa","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-zambia","category-extremes-affecting-zimbabwe","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165359","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=165359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}