{"id":205706,"date":"2026-04-09T23:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-21-2026-to-march-04-2026-at-20-5n-110-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:33:27","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-february-21-2026-to-march-04-2026-at-20-5n-110-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-21-2026-to-march-04-2026-at-20-5n-110-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from February 21 2026 to March 04 2026 at 20.5\u00b0N 110.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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>China<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan, Province of China<\/li>\n<li>Thailand<\/li>\n<li>Viet Nam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 12 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 21 2026 to March 04 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 24.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 8.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 29.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 20.5\u00b0N 110.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 1128611 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2026-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5.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_2026-Feb-21_to_2026-Mar-04_110.5_20.5<\/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): China Hong Kong Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic Taiwan, Province of China Thailand Viet Nam Duration: 12 days Time span: February 21 2026 to March 04 2026 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 2.8 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-21-2026-to-march-04-2026-at-20-5n-110-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from February 21 2026 to March 04 2026 at 20.5\u00b0N 110.5\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":[1840,2334,2121,2169,2125,2224,1841,2335,2201,2170,2202,2225,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-china","category-extremes-affecting-hong-kong","category-extremes-affecting-lao-peoples-democratic-republic","category-extremes-affecting-taiwan-province-of-china","category-extremes-affecting-thailand","category-extremes-affecting-viet-nam","category-heat-waves-affecting-china","category-heat-waves-affecting-hong-kong","category-heat-waves-affecting-lao-peoples-democratic-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-taiwan-province-of-china","category-heat-waves-affecting-thailand","category-heat-waves-affecting-viet-nam","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205706","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=205706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}