{"id":215740,"date":"2026-06-29T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-11-2020-to-november-13-2020-at-9-0s-22-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:25:08","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-october-11-2020-to-november-13-2020-at-9-0s-22-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-11-2020-to-november-13-2020-at-9-0s-22-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from October 11 2020 to November 13 2020 at -9.0\u00b0S 22.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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>Angola<\/li>\n<li>Botswana<\/li>\n<li>Burundi<\/li>\n<li>Congo DRC<\/li>\n<li>Eswatini<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho<\/li>\n<li>Madagascar<\/li>\n<li>Malawi<\/li>\n<li>Mozambique<\/li>\n<li>Namibia<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Tanzania<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<li>Zambia<\/li>\n<li>Zimbabwe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 34 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: October 11 2020 to November 13 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 3.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 26.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 11.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 36.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: -9.0\u00b0S 22.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 8621554 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2020-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0.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_2020-Oct-11_to_2020-Nov-13_22.5_-9.0<\/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): Angola Botswana Burundi Congo DRC Eswatini Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mozambique Namibia Rwanda South Africa Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Duration: 34 days Time span: October 11 2020 to November 13 2020 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-11-2020-to-november-13-2020-at-9-0s-22-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from October 11 2020 to November 13 2020 at -9.0\u00b0S 22.5\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":[2235,2226,2195,2525,2228,2393,1974,2110,2145,2251,2197,2127,2103,1962,2199,2147,2236,2357,2196,2526,2427,2394,1975,2111,2242,2276,2198,2277,2104,2105,2200,2284,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-angola","category-extremes-affecting-botswana","category-extremes-affecting-burundi","category-extremes-affecting-congo-drc","category-extremes-affecting-eswatini","category-extremes-affecting-lesotho","category-extremes-affecting-madagascar","category-extremes-affecting-malawi","category-extremes-affecting-mozambique","category-extremes-affecting-namibia","category-extremes-affecting-rwanda","category-extremes-affecting-south-africa","category-extremes-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-uganda","category-extremes-affecting-zambia","category-extremes-affecting-zimbabwe","category-heat-waves-affecting-angola","category-heat-waves-affecting-botswana","category-heat-waves-affecting-burundi","category-heat-waves-affecting-congo-drc","category-heat-waves-affecting-eswatini","category-heat-waves-affecting-lesotho","category-heat-waves-affecting-madagascar","category-heat-waves-affecting-malawi","category-heat-waves-affecting-mozambique","category-heat-waves-affecting-namibia","category-heat-waves-affecting-rwanda","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-africa","category-heat-waves-affecting-tanzania-united-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-uganda","category-heat-waves-affecting-zambia","category-heat-waves-affecting-zimbabwe","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740","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=215740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}