{"id":169819,"date":"2026-04-08T01:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-19-2021-to-november-01-2021-at-20-5n-283-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:46:49","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-october-19-2021-to-november-01-2021-at-20-5n-283-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-19-2021-to-november-01-2021-at-20-5n-283-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from October 19 2021 to November 01 2021 at 20.5\u00b0N 283.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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>Bahamas<\/li>\n<li>Belize<\/li>\n<li>Colombia<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica<\/li>\n<li>Cuba<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>Haiti<\/li>\n<li>Honduras<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua<\/li>\n<li>Panama<\/li>\n<li>Puerto Rico<\/li>\n<li>Turks and Caicos Islands<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 14 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: October 19 2021 to November 01 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 27.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 10.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 31.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 20.5\u00b0N 283.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 4891975 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5.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-Oct-19_to_2021-Nov-01_283.0_20.5<\/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): Bahamas Belize Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Puerto Rico Turks and Caicos Islands United States Duration: 14 days Time span: October 19 2021 to November 01 2021 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-19-2021-to-november-01-2021-at-20-5n-283-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from October 19 2021 to November 01 2021 at 20.5\u00b0N 283.0\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":[2400,2258,2260,2425,2262,2278,2264,2266,2439,2268,2270,1852,2272,2274,2412,2444,1250,2434,2259,2261,2426,2263,2279,2265,2267,2440,2269,2271,2161,2273,2275,2413,2445,1881,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-bahamas","category-extremes-affecting-belize","category-extremes-affecting-colombia","category-extremes-affecting-costa-rica","category-extremes-affecting-cuba","category-extremes-affecting-dominican-republic","category-extremes-affecting-el-salvador","category-extremes-affecting-guatemala","category-extremes-affecting-haiti","category-extremes-affecting-honduras","category-extremes-affecting-jamaica","category-extremes-affecting-mexico","category-extremes-affecting-nicaragua","category-extremes-affecting-panama","category-extremes-affecting-puerto-rico","category-extremes-affecting-turks-and-caicos-islands","category-extremes-affecting-united-states","category-heat-waves-affecting-bahamas","category-heat-waves-affecting-belize","category-heat-waves-affecting-colombia","category-heat-waves-affecting-costa-rica","category-heat-waves-affecting-cuba","category-heat-waves-affecting-dominican-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-el-salvador","category-heat-waves-affecting-guatemala","category-heat-waves-affecting-haiti","category-heat-waves-affecting-honduras","category-heat-waves-affecting-jamaica","category-heat-waves-affecting-mexico","category-heat-waves-affecting-nicaragua","category-heat-waves-affecting-panama","category-heat-waves-affecting-puerto-rico","category-heat-waves-affecting-turks-and-caicos-islands","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-states","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169819","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=169819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}