{"id":195776,"date":"2026-04-09T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-december-18-2024-to-december-22-2024-at-11-0n-3-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:33:45","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-december-18-2024-to-december-22-2024-at-11-0n-3-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-december-18-2024-to-december-22-2024-at-11-0n-3-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from December 18 2024 to December 22 2024 at 11.0\u00b0N 3.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 5 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: December 18 2024 to December 22 2024<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -3.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 21.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -4.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 17.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 11.0\u00b0N 3.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 1169535 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0.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_2024-Dec-18_to_2024-Dec-22_3.0_11.0<\/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): Benin Burkina Faso C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Ghana Mali Niger Nigeria Togo Duration: 5 days Time span: December 18 2024 to December 22 2024 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -3.2 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 21.4 \u00b0C Minimum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-december-18-2024-to-december-22-2024-at-11-0n-3-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from December 18 2024 to December 22 2024 at 11.0\u00b0N 3.0\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":[2421,2422,2453,2294,2291,2165,2423,2038,2040,2332,2293,1926,2042,2044,2346,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-benin","category-cold-spells-affecting-burkina-faso","category-cold-spells-affecting-cote-divoire","category-cold-spells-affecting-ghana","category-cold-spells-affecting-mali","category-cold-spells-affecting-nigeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195776","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=195776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}