{"id":218824,"date":"2026-06-30T00:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2021-to-april-22-2021-at-46-0n-50-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:23:26","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2021-to-april-22-2021-at-46-0n-50-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2021-to-april-22-2021-at-46-0n-50-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 05 2021 to April 22 2021 at 46.0\u00b0N 50.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 18 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 05 2021 to April 22 2021<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 9.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 0.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 21.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 33.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 46.0\u00b0N 50.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 9394277 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0.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_2021-Apr-05_to_2021-Apr-22_50.0_46.0<\/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): Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Iran Iraq Kazakhstan Norway Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Syria Turkiye Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Duration: 18 days Time span: April 05 2021 to April 22 2021 Statistics over entire affected area: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-05-2021-to-april-22-2021-at-46-0n-50-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 05 2021 to April 22 2021 at 46.0\u00b0N 50.0\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":[2095,2016,2018,1998,2020,1252,1988,1978,1890,1842,2115,2217,1992,2097,2220,2174,2166,2017,2019,1999,2021,2069,2112,1979,1891,1843,2116,2247,2024,2173,2331,2175,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-belarus","category-extremes-affecting-georgia","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","category-extremes-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-extremes-affecting-uzbekistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-afghanistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-armenia","category-heat-waves-affecting-azerbaijan","category-heat-waves-affecting-belarus","category-heat-waves-affecting-georgia","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-iraq","category-heat-waves-affecting-kazakhstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-norway","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkmenistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-heat-waves-affecting-uzbekistan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218824","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=218824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}