{"id":247308,"date":"2026-07-01T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-25-2026-to-june-18-2026-at-8-0n-6-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:02:26","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-25-2026-to-june-18-2026-at-8-0n-6-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-25-2026-to-june-18-2026-at-8-0n-6-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 25 2026 to June 18 2026 at 8.0\u00b0N 6.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Equatorial Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Gabon<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Liberia<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 55 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 25 2026 to June 18 2026<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 31.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 11.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 40.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 8.0\u00b0N 6.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 13434416 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0.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_2026-Apr-25_to_2026-Jun-18_6.5_8.0<\/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): Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Egypt Equatorial Guinea Gabon Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Libya Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Sudan Togo Duration: 55 days Time span: April 25 2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-25-2026-to-june-18-2026-at-8-0n-6-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 25 2026 to June 18 2026 at 8.0\u00b0N 6.5\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":[1924,2038,2040,2162,2002,2093,2332,2138,2402,2237,2293,2348,2376,2395,1944,1926,1928,2042,2044,1930,2385,1940,2346,1925,2039,2041,2314,2003,2094,2333,2414,2403,2238,2317,2349,2377,2396,2388,1927,1929,2043,2045,2378,2386,2280,2347,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-equatorial-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-gabon","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-liberia","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-sierra-leone","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-heat-waves-affecting-algeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-benin","category-heat-waves-affecting-burkina-faso","category-heat-waves-affecting-cameroon","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-cote-divoire","category-heat-waves-affecting-egypt","category-heat-waves-affecting-equatorial-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-gabon","category-heat-waves-affecting-ghana","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-heat-waves-affecting-liberia","category-heat-waves-affecting-libya","category-heat-waves-affecting-mali","category-heat-waves-affecting-mauritania","category-heat-waves-affecting-niger","category-heat-waves-affecting-nigeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-senegal","category-heat-waves-affecting-sierra-leone","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-togo","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247308","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=247308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}