{"id":183764,"date":"2026-04-08T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-08-2023-to-april-17-2023-at-35-0n-73-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:27:34","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-08-2023-to-april-17-2023-at-35-0n-73-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-08-2023-to-april-17-2023-at-35-0n-73-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 08 2023 to April 17 2023 at 35.0\u00b0N 73.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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>India<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 10 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 08 2023 to April 17 2023<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 4.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 20.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 6.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 31.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 35.0\u00b0N 73.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 71906 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2023-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0.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-Apr-08_to_2023-Apr-17_73.0_35.0<\/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): India Pakistan Duration: 10 days Time span: April 08 2023 to April 17 2023 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 4.6 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 20.6 \u00b0C Maximum temperature anomaly: 6.9 \u00b0C Maximum temperature: 31.8 \u00b0C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-08-2023-to-april-17-2023-at-35-0n-73-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 08 2023 to April 17 2023 at 35.0\u00b0N 73.0\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":[1900,2180,1901,2241,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-india","category-heat-waves-affecting-pakistan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183764","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=183764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}