{"id":207207,"date":"2026-05-22T02:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-26-2026-to-april-08-2026-at-11-5n-356-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:34:38","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-march-26-2026-to-april-08-2026-at-11-5n-356-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-26-2026-to-april-08-2026-at-11-5n-356-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from March 26 2026 to April 08 2026 at 11.5\u00b0N 356.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 14 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 26 2026 to April 08 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -5.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 19.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -14.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 2.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 11.5\u00b0N 4.0\u00b0W<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 6360117 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2026-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5.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-Mar-26_to_2026-Apr-08_356.0_11.5<\/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): Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Chad C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Italy Libya Mali Mauritania Morocco Niger Nigeria Senegal Togo Tunisia Duration: 14 days Time span: March 26 2026 to April 08 2026 Statistics over entire affected area: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-26-2026-to-april-08-2026-at-11-5n-356-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from March 26 2026 to April 08 2026 at 11.5\u00b0N 356.0\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":[2092,2421,2422,2134,2453,2294,2350,2448,2304,1945,2291,2035,2379,2165,2036,2423,2312,1924,2038,2040,2093,2332,2293,2348,2376,1966,1944,1926,1928,1952,2042,2044,1930,2346,2088,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-algeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-benin","category-cold-spells-affecting-burkina-faso","category-cold-spells-affecting-chad","category-cold-spells-affecting-cote-divoire","category-cold-spells-affecting-ghana","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-cold-spells-affecting-italy","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-mali","category-cold-spells-affecting-mauritania","category-cold-spells-affecting-morocco","category-cold-spells-affecting-nigeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-senegal","category-cold-spells-affecting-togo","category-cold-spells-affecting-tunisia","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-italy","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-morocco","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-tunisia","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207207","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=207207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}