{"id":209096,"date":"2026-05-29T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-72-5n-334-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:13:04","slug":"ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-72-5n-334-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-72-5n-334-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"(ongoing) Heat wave occuring from April 05 2026 to May 03 2026 at 72.5\u00b0N 334.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Apr-05_to_2026-May-03_334.5_72.5-1.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>Faroe Islands<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Greenland<\/li>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 29 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 05 2026 to May 03 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 6.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 0.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 21.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 14.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 72.5\u00b0N 25.5\u00b0W<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 9690083 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 1: unavailable since event is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2026-Apr-05_to_2026-May-03_334.5_72.5-1.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-Apr-05_to_2026-May-03_334.5_72.5-1.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-Apr-05_to_2026-May-03_334.5_72.5<\/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): Faroe Islands Finland Greenland Iceland Netherlands Norway Russian Federation Sweden United Kingdom Duration: 29 days Time span: April 05 2026 to May 03 2026 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 6.5 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 0.3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-72-5n-334-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(ongoing) Heat wave occuring from April 05 2026 to May 03 2026 at 72.5\u00b0N 334.5\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":[2523,1873,2000,2189,2076,1890,1842,1879,2090,2543,1874,2034,2190,2077,1891,1843,1880,2091,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-faroe-islands","category-extremes-affecting-finland","category-extremes-affecting-greenland","category-extremes-affecting-iceland","category-extremes-affecting-netherlands","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-sweden","category-extremes-affecting-united-kingdom","category-heat-waves-affecting-faroe-islands","category-heat-waves-affecting-finland","category-heat-waves-affecting-greenland","category-heat-waves-affecting-iceland","category-heat-waves-affecting-netherlands","category-heat-waves-affecting-norway","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-sweden","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-kingdom","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209096","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=209096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}