{"id":211270,"date":"2026-06-29T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-08-2020-to-february-15-2020-at-36-5n-40-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:56:25","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-february-08-2020-to-february-15-2020-at-36-5n-40-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-08-2020-to-february-15-2020-at-36-5n-40-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from February 08 2020 to February 15 2020 at 36.5\u00b0N 40.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Palestinian Territory<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 8 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 08 2020 to February 15 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -6.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 4.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -17.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -22.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 36.5\u00b0N 40.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2955360 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5.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-Feb-08_to_2020-Feb-15_40.0_36.5<\/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): Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Cyprus Georgia Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian Territory Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Syria Turkiye United Arab Emirates Yemen Duration: 8 days Time span: February 08 2020 to February 15 2020 Statistics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-08-2020-to-february-15-2020-at-36-5n-40-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from February 08 2020 to February 15 2020 at 36.5\u00b0N 40.0\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":[2203,2204,2206,2208,2209,1253,2211,2290,2213,2214,2216,2179,2563,2130,2141,2218,2219,2221,2107,2016,2018,2205,2207,2020,1252,1988,2289,2212,2113,2215,2178,2548,1842,2115,2217,1992,2220,2106,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-armenia","category-cold-spells-affecting-azerbaijan","category-cold-spells-affecting-bahrain","category-cold-spells-affecting-cyprus","category-cold-spells-affecting-georgia","category-cold-spells-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-iraq","category-cold-spells-affecting-israel","category-cold-spells-affecting-jordan","category-cold-spells-affecting-kuwait","category-cold-spells-affecting-lebanon","category-cold-spells-affecting-oman","category-cold-spells-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-cold-spells-affecting-russian-federation","category-cold-spells-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-cold-spells-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-cold-spells-affecting-turkiye","category-cold-spells-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-cold-spells-affecting-yemen","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-bahrain","category-extremes-affecting-cyprus","category-extremes-affecting-georgia","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-israel","category-extremes-affecting-jordan","category-extremes-affecting-kuwait","category-extremes-affecting-lebanon","category-extremes-affecting-oman","category-extremes-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-extremes-affecting-yemen","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211270","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=211270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}