{"id":195661,"date":"2026-04-09T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-14-2024-to-december-21-2024-at-52-5n-20-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:25:20","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-december-14-2024-to-december-21-2024-at-52-5n-20-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-14-2024-to-december-21-2024-at-52-5n-20-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from December 14 2024 to December 21 2024 at 52.5\u00b0N 20.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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>Austria<\/li>\n<li>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Czechia<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Moldova, Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Slovakia<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 8 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: December 14 2024 to December 21 2024<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 6.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 7.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 10.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 12.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 52.5\u00b0N 20.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2319160 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2024-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5.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_2024-Dec-14_to_2024-Dec-21_20.5_52.5<\/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): Austria Belarus Czechia Denmark Germany Ireland Italy Lithuania Moldova, Republic of Netherlands Poland Romania Russian Federation Slovakia Sweden Ukraine United Kingdom Duration: 8 days Time span: December 14 2024 to December 21 2024 Statistics over entire affected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-14-2024-to-december-21-2024-at-52-5n-20-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from December 14 2024 to December 21 2024 at 52.5\u00b0N 20.5\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":[2051,1998,2059,2061,2063,2337,1966,1877,2072,2076,2080,2022,1842,2084,1879,2025,2090,2052,1999,2060,2062,2064,2338,1967,1878,2073,2077,2081,2023,1843,2085,1880,2026,2091,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-austria","category-extremes-affecting-belarus","category-extremes-affecting-czechia","category-extremes-affecting-denmark","category-extremes-affecting-germany","category-extremes-affecting-ireland","category-extremes-affecting-italy","category-extremes-affecting-lithuania","category-extremes-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-netherlands","category-extremes-affecting-poland","category-extremes-affecting-romania","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-slovakia","category-extremes-affecting-sweden","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-extremes-affecting-united-kingdom","category-heat-waves-affecting-austria","category-heat-waves-affecting-belarus","category-heat-waves-affecting-czechia","category-heat-waves-affecting-denmark","category-heat-waves-affecting-germany","category-heat-waves-affecting-ireland","category-heat-waves-affecting-italy","category-heat-waves-affecting-lithuania","category-heat-waves-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-netherlands","category-heat-waves-affecting-poland","category-heat-waves-affecting-romania","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-slovakia","category-heat-waves-affecting-sweden","category-heat-waves-affecting-ukraine","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-kingdom","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195661","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=195661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}