{"id":364948,"date":"2026-10-29T20:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-18-2015-to-march-11-2015-at-18-0n-74-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:55:21","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-february-18-2015-to-march-11-2015-at-18-0n-74-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-18-2015-to-march-11-2015-at-18-0n-74-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from February 18 2015 to March 11 2015 at 18.0\u00b0N 74.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Nepal<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Palestinian Territory<\/li>\n<li>Qatar<\/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>Yemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 22 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 18 2015 to March 11 2015<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -4.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 15.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -13.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: -15.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 18.0\u00b0N 74.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 6870304 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0.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_2015-Feb-18_to_2015-Mar-11_74.5_18.0<\/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): Afghanistan Bahrain Cyprus Egypt India Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestinian Territory Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkiye Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Yemen Duration: 22 days Time span: February 18 2015 to March 11 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-february-18-2015-to-march-11-2015-at-18-0n-74-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from February 18 2015 to March 11 2015 at 18.0\u00b0N 74.5\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":[2096,2820,2734,2588,2600,1253,2586,2735,2736,2785,2737,2601,2179,2617,2817,2791,2724,2738,2219,2098,2792,2107,2095,2205,2207,2138,1900,1252,1988,2289,2212,2113,2215,2123,2178,2180,2548,2329,2115,2217,1992,2097,2220,2106,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-afghanistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-bahrain","category-cold-spells-affecting-cyprus","category-cold-spells-affecting-egypt","category-cold-spells-affecting-india","category-cold-spells-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-cold-spells-affecting-iraq","category-cold-spells-affecting-israel","category-cold-spells-affecting-jordan","category-cold-spells-affecting-kuwait","category-cold-spells-affecting-lebanon","category-cold-spells-affecting-nepal","category-cold-spells-affecting-oman","category-cold-spells-affecting-pakistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-cold-spells-affecting-qatar","category-cold-spells-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-cold-spells-affecting-syria","category-cold-spells-affecting-turkiye","category-cold-spells-affecting-turkmenistan","category-cold-spells-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-cold-spells-affecting-yemen","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-bahrain","category-extremes-affecting-cyprus","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-israel","category-extremes-affecting-jordan","category-extremes-affecting-kuwait","category-extremes-affecting-lebanon","category-extremes-affecting-nepal","category-extremes-affecting-oman","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-extremes-affecting-qatar","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-yemen","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364948","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=364948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}