{"id":300019,"date":"2026-10-28T08:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-06-2012-to-march-24-2012-at-22-0n-6-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:08:54","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-march-06-2012-to-march-24-2012-at-22-0n-6-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-06-2012-to-march-24-2012-at-22-0n-6-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from March 06 2012 to March 24 2012 at 22.0\u00b0N 6.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 19 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 06 2012 to March 24 2012<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -5.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 16.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -11.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 1.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 22.0\u00b0N 6.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 8418815 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0.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: Cold_spell_2012-Mar-06_to_2012-Mar-24_6.5_22.0<\/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): Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Chad C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Egypt Ghana Guinea Libya Mali Mauritania Morocco Niger Nigeria Sudan Togo Tunisia Duration: 19 days Time span: March 06 2012 to March 24 2012 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-06-2012-to-march-24-2012-at-22-0n-6-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from March 06 2012 to March 24 2012 at 22.0\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":[2591,2772,2773,2587,2800,2588,2811,2779,2589,2775,2789,2786,2776,2777,2590,2812,2768,1924,2038,2040,2093,2332,2138,2293,2348,1944,1926,1928,1952,2042,2044,1940,2346,2088,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-algeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-benin","category-cold-spells-affecting-burkina-faso","category-cold-spells-affecting-chad","category-cold-spells-affecting-cote-divoire","category-cold-spells-affecting-egypt","category-cold-spells-affecting-ghana","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-mali","category-cold-spells-affecting-mauritania","category-cold-spells-affecting-morocco","category-cold-spells-affecting-niger","category-cold-spells-affecting-nigeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-sudan","category-cold-spells-affecting-togo","category-cold-spells-affecting-tunisia","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-morocco","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-tunisia","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300019","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=300019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}