{"id":300598,"date":"2026-10-28T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-16-2012-to-october-12-2012-at-18-5n-206-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:30:45","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-march-16-2012-to-october-12-2012-at-18-5n-206-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-16-2012-to-october-12-2012-at-18-5n-206-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from March 16 2012 to October 12 2012 at 18.5\u00b0N 206.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-Mar-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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>Canada<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>Greenland<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>North Korea<\/li>\n<li>Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 211 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 16 2012 to October 12 2012<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -2.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 13.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -15.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -37.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 18.5\u00b0N 206.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 57513308 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2012-Mar-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5.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-16_to_2012-Oct-12_206.0_18.5<\/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): Canada China Greenland Japan Mexico North Korea Philippines Russian Federation United Kingdom United States Duration: 211 days Time span: March 16 2012 to October 12 2012 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: -2.2 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-16-2012-to-october-12-2012-at-18-5n-206-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from March 16 2012 to October 12 2012 at 18.5\u00b0N 206.0\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":[1249,1947,2001,2729,2029,2602,2782,2130,2749,1251,1248,1840,2000,1932,1852,2546,2191,1842,2090,1250,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-canada","category-cold-spells-affecting-china","category-cold-spells-affecting-greenland","category-cold-spells-affecting-japan","category-cold-spells-affecting-mexico","category-cold-spells-affecting-north-korea","category-cold-spells-affecting-philippines","category-cold-spells-affecting-russian-federation","category-cold-spells-affecting-united-kingdom","category-cold-spells-affecting-united-states","category-extremes-affecting-canada","category-extremes-affecting-china","category-extremes-affecting-greenland","category-extremes-affecting-japan","category-extremes-affecting-mexico","category-extremes-affecting-north-korea","category-extremes-affecting-philippines","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-united-kingdom","category-extremes-affecting-united-states","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300598","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=300598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}