{"id":166914,"date":"2026-04-02T04:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-july-08-2021-to-august-11-2021-at-1-5s-280-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:10:43","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-july-08-2021-to-august-11-2021-at-1-5s-280-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-july-08-2021-to-august-11-2021-at-1-5s-280-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from July 08 2021 to August 11 2021 at -1.5\u00b0S 280.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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>Belize<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia, Plurinational State of<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Colombia<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>French Guiana<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>Honduras<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua<\/li>\n<li>Panama<\/li>\n<li>Peru<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 35 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: July 08 2021 to August 11 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 1.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 27.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 3.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 32.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -1.5\u00b0S 280.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 4173549 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5.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-Jul-08_to_2021-Aug-11_280.0_-1.5<\/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): Belize Bolivia, Plurinational State of Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador French Guiana Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Peru Duration: 35 days Time span: July 08 2021 to August 11 2021 Statistics over entire affected area: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-july-08-2021-to-august-11-2021-at-1-5s-280-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from July 08 2021 to August 11 2021 at -1.5\u00b0S 280.0\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":[2258,1994,1838,2260,2425,2249,2264,1896,2266,2268,1852,2272,2274,1858,2259,1995,1839,2261,2426,2250,2265,1897,2267,2269,2161,2273,2275,2144,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-belize","category-extremes-affecting-bolivia-plurinational-state-of","category-extremes-affecting-brazil","category-extremes-affecting-colombia","category-extremes-affecting-costa-rica","category-extremes-affecting-ecuador","category-extremes-affecting-el-salvador","category-extremes-affecting-french-guiana","category-extremes-affecting-guatemala","category-extremes-affecting-honduras","category-extremes-affecting-mexico","category-extremes-affecting-nicaragua","category-extremes-affecting-panama","category-extremes-affecting-peru","category-heat-waves-affecting-belize","category-heat-waves-affecting-bolivia-plurinational-state-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-brazil","category-heat-waves-affecting-colombia","category-heat-waves-affecting-costa-rica","category-heat-waves-affecting-ecuador","category-heat-waves-affecting-el-salvador","category-heat-waves-affecting-french-guiana","category-heat-waves-affecting-guatemala","category-heat-waves-affecting-honduras","category-heat-waves-affecting-mexico","category-heat-waves-affecting-nicaragua","category-heat-waves-affecting-panama","category-heat-waves-affecting-peru","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166914","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=166914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}