{"id":223132,"date":"2026-06-30T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-03-2021-to-january-08-2022-at-14-0n-44-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:47:08","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-december-03-2021-to-january-08-2022-at-14-0n-44-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-03-2021-to-january-08-2022-at-14-0n-44-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from December 03 2021 to January 08 2022 at 14.0\u00b0N 44.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Kyrgyzstan<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Moldova<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Palestinian Territory<\/li>\n<li>Qatar<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 37 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: December 03 2021 to January 08 2022<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 6.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 11.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 14.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 28.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 14.0\u00b0N 44.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 11457013 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2021-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0.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-Dec-03_to_2022-Jan-08_44.0_14.0<\/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 Azerbaijan Bahrain Bulgaria Cyprus Egypt Eritrea Georgia Greece Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Moldova Oman Pakistan Palestinian Territory Qatar Romania Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria Tajikistan Turkiye Turkmenistan Ukraine United Arab Emirates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-03-2021-to-january-08-2022-at-14-0n-44-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from December 03 2021 to January 08 2022 at 14.0\u00b0N 44.0\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":[2095,2018,2205,2057,2207,2138,1938,2020,2065,1252,1988,2289,2212,1978,2113,2167,2215,2072,2178,2180,2548,2329,2022,1842,2115,1940,2217,2171,1992,2097,2025,2220,2174,2106,2166,2019,2328,2058,2431,2414,2313,2021,2066,2069,2112,2432,2246,1979,2114,2168,2433,2073,2292,2241,2549,2330,2023,1843,2116,2280,2247,2172,2024,2173,2026,2331,2175,2164,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-bahrain","category-extremes-affecting-bulgaria","category-extremes-affecting-cyprus","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-eritrea","category-extremes-affecting-georgia","category-extremes-affecting-greece","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-israel","category-extremes-affecting-jordan","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-kuwait","category-extremes-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-extremes-affecting-lebanon","category-extremes-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-oman","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-extremes-affecting-qatar","category-extremes-affecting-romania","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-extremes-affecting-tajikistan","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-extremes-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-extremes-affecting-uzbekistan","category-extremes-affecting-yemen","category-heat-waves-affecting-afghanistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-azerbaijan","category-heat-waves-affecting-bahrain","category-heat-waves-affecting-bulgaria","category-heat-waves-affecting-cyprus","category-heat-waves-affecting-egypt","category-heat-waves-affecting-eritrea","category-heat-waves-affecting-georgia","category-heat-waves-affecting-greece","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-iraq","category-heat-waves-affecting-israel","category-heat-waves-affecting-jordan","category-heat-waves-affecting-kazakhstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-kuwait","category-heat-waves-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-lebanon","category-heat-waves-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-oman","category-heat-waves-affecting-pakistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-heat-waves-affecting-qatar","category-heat-waves-affecting-romania","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-tajikistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkmenistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-ukraine","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-heat-waves-affecting-uzbekistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-yemen","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223132","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=223132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}