{"id":173876,"date":"2026-04-08T04:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-march-29-2022-to-april-15-2022-at-18-5n-282-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:05:17","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-march-29-2022-to-april-15-2022-at-18-5n-282-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-march-29-2022-to-april-15-2022-at-18-5n-282-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from March 29 2022 to April 15 2022 at 18.5\u00b0N 282.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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>Cuba<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>Honduras<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica<\/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: 18 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 29 2022 to April 15 2022<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 1.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 24.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 7.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 35.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 18.5\u00b0N 282.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 5745454 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5.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_2022-Mar-29_to_2022-Apr-15_282.5_18.5<\/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 Cuba Guatemala Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Turks and Caicos Islands United States Duration: 18 days Time span: March 29 2022 to April 15 2022 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 1.9 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-march-29-2022-to-april-15-2022-at-18-5n-282-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from March 29 2022 to April 15 2022 at 18.5\u00b0N 282.5\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":[2400,2258,2262,2266,2268,2270,1852,2272,2444,1250,2434,2259,2263,2267,2269,2271,2161,2273,2445,1881,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-bahamas","category-extremes-affecting-belize","category-extremes-affecting-cuba","category-extremes-affecting-guatemala","category-extremes-affecting-honduras","category-extremes-affecting-jamaica","category-extremes-affecting-mexico","category-extremes-affecting-nicaragua","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-cuba","category-heat-waves-affecting-guatemala","category-heat-waves-affecting-honduras","category-heat-waves-affecting-jamaica","category-heat-waves-affecting-mexico","category-heat-waves-affecting-nicaragua","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\/173876","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=173876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}