{"id":175016,"date":"2026-04-08T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2022-to-may-21-2022-at-19-5n-343-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:45:08","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2022-to-may-21-2022-at-19-5n-343-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2022-to-may-21-2022-at-19-5n-343-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from May 10 2022 to May 21 2022 at 19.5\u00b0N 343.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cabo Verde<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Gambia<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Liberia<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 12 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: May 10 2022 to May 21 2022<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 27.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 9.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 39.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 19.5\u00b0N 343.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 1968025 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2022-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5.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-May-10_to_2022-May-21_343.5_19.5<\/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): Burkina Faso Cabo Verde C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Senegal Sierra Leone Duration: 12 days Time span: May 10 2022 to May 21 2022 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 2.2 \u00b0C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2022-to-may-21-2022-at-19-5n-343-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from May 10 2022 to May 21 2022 at 19.5\u00b0N 343.5\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":[2040,2429,2332,2374,2348,2376,2395,1926,1928,1930,2385,2041,2430,2333,2375,2349,2377,2396,1927,1929,2378,2386,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cabo-verde","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-gambia","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-liberia","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-sierra-leone","category-heat-waves-affecting-burkina-faso","category-heat-waves-affecting-cabo-verde","category-heat-waves-affecting-cote-divoire","category-heat-waves-affecting-gambia","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-heat-waves-affecting-liberia","category-heat-waves-affecting-mali","category-heat-waves-affecting-mauritania","category-heat-waves-affecting-senegal","category-heat-waves-affecting-sierra-leone","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175016","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=175016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}