{"id":204966,"date":"2026-04-09T22:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-23-2026-to-february-07-2026-at-56-5n-20-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:39:36","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-january-23-2026-to-february-07-2026-at-56-5n-20-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-23-2026-to-february-07-2026-at-56-5n-20-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from January 23 2026 to February 07 2026 at 56.5\u00b0N 20.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Jan-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 16 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: January 23 2026 to February 07 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -11.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: -15.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -19.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -28.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 56.5\u00b0N 20.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2610392 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2026-Jan-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5.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-23_to_2026-Feb-07_20.5_56.5<\/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): Belarus Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Norway Poland Russian Federation Sweden Ukraine Duration: 16 days Time span: January 23 2026 to February 07 2026 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -11.3 \u00b0C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-23-2026-to-february-07-2026-at-56-5n-20-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from January 23 2026 to February 07 2026 at 56.5\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":[2365,2367,2368,2361,2302,2339,2369,2370,2372,2327,2318,2130,2363,2320,1998,2061,1871,1873,2063,1978,1875,1877,2076,1890,2080,1842,1879,2025,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-belarus","category-cold-spells-affecting-denmark","category-cold-spells-affecting-estonia","category-cold-spells-affecting-finland","category-cold-spells-affecting-germany","category-cold-spells-affecting-kazakhstan","category-cold-spells-affecting-latvia","category-cold-spells-affecting-lithuania","category-cold-spells-affecting-netherlands","category-cold-spells-affecting-norway","category-cold-spells-affecting-poland","category-cold-spells-affecting-russian-federation","category-cold-spells-affecting-sweden","category-cold-spells-affecting-ukraine","category-extremes-affecting-belarus","category-extremes-affecting-denmark","category-extremes-affecting-estonia","category-extremes-affecting-finland","category-extremes-affecting-germany","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-latvia","category-extremes-affecting-lithuania","category-extremes-affecting-netherlands","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-poland","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-sweden","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204966","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=204966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}