{"id":181374,"date":"2026-04-08T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-january-05-2023-to-february-12-2023-at-22-0n-278-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:51:23","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-january-05-2023-to-february-12-2023-at-22-0n-278-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-january-05-2023-to-february-12-2023-at-22-0n-278-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from January 05 2023 to February 12 2023 at 22.0\u00b0N 278.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Cuba<\/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>Turks and Caicos Islands<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 39 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: January 05 2023 to February 12 2023<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 8.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 7.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 23.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 29.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 22.0\u00b0N 278.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 11571951 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0.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_2023-Jan-05_to_2023-Feb-12_278.0_22.0<\/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 Canada Cuba El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Turks and Caicos Islands United States Duration: 39 days Time span: January 05 2023 to February 12 2023 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-january-05-2023-to-february-12-2023-at-22-0n-278-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from January 05 2023 to February 12 2023 at 22.0\u00b0N 278.0\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":[2400,2258,1248,2262,2264,2266,2439,2268,2270,1852,2272,2444,1250,2434,2259,1946,2263,2265,2267,2440,2269,2271,2161,2273,2445,1881,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-bahamas","category-extremes-affecting-belize","category-extremes-affecting-canada","category-extremes-affecting-cuba","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-turks-and-caicos-islands","category-extremes-affecting-united-states","category-heat-waves-affecting-bahamas","category-heat-waves-affecting-belize","category-heat-waves-affecting-canada","category-heat-waves-affecting-cuba","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-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\/181374","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=181374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}