{"id":184184,"date":"2026-04-08T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-22-2023-to-may-06-2023-at-46-5n-53-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:55:15","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-22-2023-to-may-06-2023-at-46-5n-53-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-22-2023-to-may-06-2023-at-46-5n-53-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 22 2023 to May 06 2023 at 46.5\u00b0N 53.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 15 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 22 2023 to May 06 2023<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 7.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 20.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 13.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 31.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 46.5\u00b0N 53.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 3617915 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2023-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5.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_2023-Apr-22_to_2023-May-06_53.5_46.5<\/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): Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Iran, Islamic Republic of Kazakhstan Russian Federation Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Duration: 15 days Time span: April 22 2023 to May 06 2023 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 7.8 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 20.7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-22-2023-to-may-06-2023-at-46-5n-53-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 22 2023 to May 06 2023 at 46.5\u00b0N 53.5\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":[2095,2016,2018,1252,1978,1842,2097,2174,2166,2017,2019,2069,1979,1843,2173,2175,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","category-extremes-affecting-uzbekistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-afghanistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-armenia","category-heat-waves-affecting-azerbaijan","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-kazakhstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkmenistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-uzbekistan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184184","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=184184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}