{"id":209171,"date":"2026-05-29T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-26-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-8-5s-33-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:18:03","slug":"ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-26-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-8-5s-33-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-26-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-8-5s-33-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"(ongoing) Heat wave occuring from April 26 2026 to May 03 2026 at -8.5\u00b0S 33.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Apr-26_to_2026-May-03_33.5_-8.5-1.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>Tanzania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 8 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 26 2026 to May 03 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 1.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 21.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 1.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 26.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -8.5\u00b0S 33.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 54981 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-26_to_2026-May-03_33.5_-8.5-1.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-26_to_2026-May-03_33.5_-8.5-1.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-26_to_2026-May-03_33.5_-8.5<\/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): Tanzania Duration: 8 days Time span: April 26 2026 to May 03 2026 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 1.3 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 21.6 \u00b0C Maximum temperature anomaly: 1.9 \u00b0C Maximum temperature: 26.4 \u00b0C Event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-26-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-8-5s-33-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(ongoing) Heat wave occuring from April 26 2026 to May 03 2026 at -8.5\u00b0S 33.5\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":[2103,2104,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209171","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=209171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}