{"id":184109,"date":"2026-04-08T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-19-2023-to-may-28-2023-at-23-0n-80-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:50:18","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-april-19-2023-to-may-28-2023-at-23-0n-80-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-19-2023-to-may-28-2023-at-23-0n-80-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from April 19 2023 to May 28 2023 at 23.0\u00b0N 80.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023-Apr-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Bhutan<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Kyrgyzstan<\/li>\n<li>Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia<\/li>\n<li>Myanmar<\/li>\n<li>Nepal<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Viet Nam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 40 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 19 2023 to May 28 2023<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -5.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 13.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -18.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -22.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 23.0\u00b0N 80.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 10132432 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2023-Apr-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0.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: Cold_spell_2023-Apr-19_to_2023-May-28_80.0_23.0<\/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): Afghanistan Bhutan China India Iran, Islamic Republic of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Russian Federation Sri Lanka Tajikistan Viet Nam Duration: 40 days Time span: April 19 2023 to May 28 2023 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-19-2023-to-may-28-2023-at-23-0n-80-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from April 19 2023 to May 28 2023 at 23.0\u00b0N 80.0\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":[2096,2353,1947,1987,1253,2339,2341,2122,2356,1949,2124,2181,2130,2462,2407,2325,2095,2100,1840,1900,1252,1978,2167,2121,2032,1948,2123,2180,1842,2398,2171,2224,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-afghanistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-bhutan","category-cold-spells-affecting-china","category-cold-spells-affecting-india","category-cold-spells-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-kazakhstan","category-cold-spells-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-cold-spells-affecting-lao-peoples-democratic-republic","category-cold-spells-affecting-mongolia","category-cold-spells-affecting-myanmar","category-cold-spells-affecting-nepal","category-cold-spells-affecting-pakistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-russian-federation","category-cold-spells-affecting-sri-lanka","category-cold-spells-affecting-tajikistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-viet-nam","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-bhutan","category-extremes-affecting-china","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-extremes-affecting-lao-peoples-democratic-republic","category-extremes-affecting-mongolia","category-extremes-affecting-myanmar","category-extremes-affecting-nepal","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-sri-lanka","category-extremes-affecting-tajikistan","category-extremes-affecting-viet-nam","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184109","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=184109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}