{"id":210915,"date":"2026-06-29T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2020-to-february-16-2020-at-4-5n-34-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:30:29","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2020-to-february-16-2020-at-4-5n-34-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2020-to-february-16-2020-at-4-5n-34-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from January 20 2020 to February 16 2020 at 4.5\u00b0N 34.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Congo<\/li>\n<li>Congo DRC<\/li>\n<li>Djibouti<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>Kenya<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 28 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: January 20 2020 to February 16 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -3.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 18.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -9.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 4.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 4.5\u00b0N 34.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 6072572 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5.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_2020-Jan-20_to_2020-Feb-16_34.5_4.5<\/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): Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Congo DRC Djibouti Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Libya Saudi Arabia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Uganda Yemen Duration: 28 days Time span: January 20 2020 to February 16 2020 Statistics over entire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-january-20-2020-to-february-16-2020-at-4-5n-34-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from January 20 2020 to February 16 2020 at 4.5\u00b0N 34.5\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":[2163,2133,2134,2535,2137,2139,1939,1957,2140,1945,2141,1961,1941,2142,2143,2107,2162,2002,2093,2525,2136,2138,1938,1956,1958,1944,2115,1960,1940,2103,1962,2106,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-cameroon","category-cold-spells-affecting-central-african-republic","category-cold-spells-affecting-chad","category-cold-spells-affecting-congo-drc","category-cold-spells-affecting-djibouti","category-cold-spells-affecting-egypt","category-cold-spells-affecting-eritrea","category-cold-spells-affecting-ethiopia","category-cold-spells-affecting-kenya","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-cold-spells-affecting-south-sudan","category-cold-spells-affecting-sudan","category-cold-spells-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-uganda","category-cold-spells-affecting-yemen","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-congo-drc","category-extremes-affecting-djibouti","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-eritrea","category-extremes-affecting-ethiopia","category-extremes-affecting-kenya","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-uganda","category-extremes-affecting-yemen","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210915","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=210915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}