{"id":209228,"date":"2026-05-29T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-29-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-1-5n-350-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:22:10","slug":"ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-29-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-1-5n-350-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-29-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-1-5n-350-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"(ongoing) Heat wave occuring from April 29 2026 to May 03 2026 at 1.5\u00b0N 350.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Apr-29_to_2026-May-03_350.0_1.5-1.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>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Equatorial Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Gabon<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 5 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 29 2026 to May 03 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 1.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 28.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 4.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 38.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 1.5\u00b0N 350.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2130456 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-29_to_2026-May-03_350.0_1.5-1.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-29_to_2026-May-03_350.0_1.5-1.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-29_to_2026-May-03_350.0_1.5<\/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): Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Gabon Ghana Mali Niger Nigeria Togo Duration: 5 days Time span: April 29 2026 to May 03 2026 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/ongoing-heat-wave-occuring-from-april-29-2026-to-may-03-2026-at-1-5n-350-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(ongoing) Heat wave occuring from April 29 2026 to May 03 2026 at 1.5\u00b0N 350.0\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":[2038,2040,2162,2002,2093,2332,2402,2237,2293,1926,2042,2044,2346,2039,2041,2314,2003,2094,2333,2403,2238,2317,1927,2043,2045,2347,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-equatorial-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-gabon","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-heat-waves-affecting-benin","category-heat-waves-affecting-burkina-faso","category-heat-waves-affecting-cameroon","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-cote-divoire","category-heat-waves-affecting-equatorial-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-gabon","category-heat-waves-affecting-ghana","category-heat-waves-affecting-mali","category-heat-waves-affecting-niger","category-heat-waves-affecting-nigeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-togo","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209228","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=209228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}