{"id":204816,"date":"2026-04-09T22:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-09-2026-to-january-23-2026-at-51-5n-26-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:28:20","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-january-09-2026-to-january-23-2026-at-51-5n-26-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-09-2026-to-january-23-2026-at-51-5n-26-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from January 09 2026 to January 23 2026 at 51.5\u00b0N 26.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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>Austria<\/li>\n<li>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Moldova, Republic of<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Serbia<\/li>\n<li>Slovakia<\/li>\n<li>Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>T\u00fcrkiye<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 15 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: January 09 2026 to January 23 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -9.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: -11.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -18.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -22.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 51.5\u00b0N 26.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2552543 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5.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_2026-Jan-09_to_2026-Jan-23_26.0_51.5<\/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): Austria Belarus Bulgaria Croatia Estonia Greece Hungary Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Moldova, Republic of Poland Romania Russian Federation Serbia Slovakia Slovenia T\u00fcrkiye Ukraine Duration: 15 days Time span: January 09 2026 to January 23 2026 Statistics over entire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-09-2026-to-january-23-2026-at-51-5n-26-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from January 09 2026 to January 23 2026 at 51.5\u00b0N 26.0\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":[2296,2365,2298,2299,2368,2210,2303,2339,2369,2370,2371,2318,2307,2130,2308,2319,2309,2219,2320,2051,1998,2057,1964,1871,2065,2067,1978,1875,1877,2072,2080,2022,1842,2082,2084,1968,1992,2025,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-austria","category-cold-spells-affecting-belarus","category-cold-spells-affecting-bulgaria","category-cold-spells-affecting-croatia","category-cold-spells-affecting-estonia","category-cold-spells-affecting-greece","category-cold-spells-affecting-hungary","category-cold-spells-affecting-kazakhstan","category-cold-spells-affecting-latvia","category-cold-spells-affecting-lithuania","category-cold-spells-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-poland","category-cold-spells-affecting-romania","category-cold-spells-affecting-russian-federation","category-cold-spells-affecting-serbia","category-cold-spells-affecting-slovakia","category-cold-spells-affecting-slovenia","category-cold-spells-affecting-turkiye","category-cold-spells-affecting-ukraine","category-extremes-affecting-austria","category-extremes-affecting-belarus","category-extremes-affecting-bulgaria","category-extremes-affecting-croatia","category-extremes-affecting-estonia","category-extremes-affecting-greece","category-extremes-affecting-hungary","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-latvia","category-extremes-affecting-lithuania","category-extremes-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-poland","category-extremes-affecting-romania","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-serbia","category-extremes-affecting-slovakia","category-extremes-affecting-slovenia","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204816","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=204816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}