{"id":182194,"date":"2026-04-08T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-05-2023-to-february-18-2023-at-38-5n-32-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:44:32","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-february-05-2023-to-february-18-2023-at-38-5n-32-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-05-2023-to-february-18-2023-at-38-5n-32-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from February 05 2023 to February 18 2023 at 38.5\u00b0N 32.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.json\">JSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event type: Cold spell<\/p>\n<p>Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albania<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Montenegro<\/li>\n<li>North Macedonia<\/li>\n<li>Serbia<\/li>\n<li>T\u00fcrkiye<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 14 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 05 2023 to February 18 2023<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -5.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 1.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -15.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -18.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 38.5\u00b0N 32.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2013791 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.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_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.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_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.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_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.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_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.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_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5.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: Cold_spell_2023-Feb-05_to_2023-Feb-18_32.5_38.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: JSON Event type: Cold spell Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference): Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Egypt France Georgia Greece Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Italy Libya Montenegro North Macedonia Serbia T\u00fcrkiye Duration: 14 days Time span: February 05 2023 to February 18 2023 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-05-2023-to-february-18-2023-at-38-5n-32-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from February 05 2023 to February 18 2023 at 38.5\u00b0N 32.5\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":[2295,2203,2204,2297,2298,2299,2208,2139,2301,2209,2210,1253,2211,2304,1945,2305,2306,2308,2219,2047,2016,2018,2055,2057,1964,2207,2138,1950,2020,2065,1252,1988,1966,1944,2074,2078,2082,1992,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-albania","category-cold-spells-affecting-armenia","category-cold-spells-affecting-azerbaijan","category-cold-spells-affecting-bosnia-and-herzegovina","category-cold-spells-affecting-bulgaria","category-cold-spells-affecting-croatia","category-cold-spells-affecting-cyprus","category-cold-spells-affecting-egypt","category-cold-spells-affecting-france","category-cold-spells-affecting-georgia","category-cold-spells-affecting-greece","category-cold-spells-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-iraq","category-cold-spells-affecting-italy","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-montenegro","category-cold-spells-affecting-north-macedonia","category-cold-spells-affecting-serbia","category-cold-spells-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-albania","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-bosnia-and-herzegovina","category-extremes-affecting-bulgaria","category-extremes-affecting-croatia","category-extremes-affecting-cyprus","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-france","category-extremes-affecting-georgia","category-extremes-affecting-greece","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-italy","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-montenegro","category-extremes-affecting-north-macedonia","category-extremes-affecting-serbia","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194","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=182194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}