{"id":175496,"date":"2026-04-08T05:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-28-2022-to-june-20-2022-at-5-5s-22-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:02:01","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-may-28-2022-to-june-20-2022-at-5-5s-22-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-28-2022-to-june-20-2022-at-5-5s-22-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from May 28 2022 to June 20 2022 at -5.5\u00b0S 22.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022-May-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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>Angola<\/li>\n<li>Burundi<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Congo<\/li>\n<li>Congo, The Democratic Republic of the<\/li>\n<li>Gabon<\/li>\n<li>Namibia<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania, United Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 24 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: May 28 2022 to June 20 2022<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 22.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 9.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 30.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -5.5\u00b0S 22.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 5955322 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2022-May-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5.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-28_to_2022-Jun-20_22.0_-5.5<\/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): Angola Burundi Central African Republic Congo Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Gabon Namibia Rwanda South Africa South Sudan Tanzania, United Republic of Uganda Duration: 24 days Time span: May 28 2022 to June 20 2022 Statistics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-28-2022-to-june-20-2022-at-5-5s-22-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from May 28 2022 to June 20 2022 at -5.5\u00b0S 22.0\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":[2235,2195,2002,1922,2237,2251,2197,2127,1960,2103,1962,2236,2196,2003,1923,2238,2276,2198,2277,2004,2104,2105,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-angola","category-extremes-affecting-burundi","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-extremes-affecting-gabon","category-extremes-affecting-namibia","category-extremes-affecting-rwanda","category-extremes-affecting-south-africa","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-uganda","category-heat-waves-affecting-angola","category-heat-waves-affecting-burundi","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the","category-heat-waves-affecting-gabon","category-heat-waves-affecting-namibia","category-heat-waves-affecting-rwanda","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-africa","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-uganda","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175496","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=175496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}