{"id":190979,"date":"2026-04-08T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-13-2024-to-may-07-2024-at-28-5n-65-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:18:28","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-april-13-2024-to-may-07-2024-at-28-5n-65-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-13-2024-to-may-07-2024-at-28-5n-65-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from April 13 2024 to May 07 2024 at 28.5\u00b0N 65.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 25 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 13 2024 to May 07 2024<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -5.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 19.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -12.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -8.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 28.5\u00b0N 65.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 3383335 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5.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_2024-Apr-13_to_2024-May-07_65.0_28.5<\/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): Afghanistan India Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Kuwait Pakistan Saudi Arabia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Duration: 25 days Time span: April 13 2024 to May 07 2024 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -5.9 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-april-13-2024-to-may-07-2024-at-28-5n-65-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from April 13 2024 to May 07 2024 at 28.5\u00b0N 65.0\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":[2096,1987,1253,2211,2214,2181,2141,2407,2098,2340,2095,1900,1252,1988,2113,2180,2115,2171,2097,2174,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-afghanistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-india","category-cold-spells-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-iraq","category-cold-spells-affecting-kuwait","category-cold-spells-affecting-pakistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-cold-spells-affecting-tajikistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-turkmenistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-uzbekistan","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-kuwait","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-tajikistan","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","category-extremes-affecting-uzbekistan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190979","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=190979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}