{"id":395796,"date":"2026-10-30T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-06-2016-to-march-29-2016-at-82-5n-31-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:20:09","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-february-06-2016-to-march-29-2016-at-82-5n-31-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-06-2016-to-march-29-2016-at-82-5n-31-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from February 06 2016 to March 29 2016 at 82.5\u00b0N 31.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Greenland<\/li>\n<li>Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Slovakia<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 53 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 06 2016 to March 29 2016<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 11.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: -8.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 26.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 10.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 82.5\u00b0N 31.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 14120953 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5.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: Heat_wave_2016-Feb-06_to_2016-Mar-29_31.0_82.5<\/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): Belarus Canada Estonia Finland Greenland Hungary Iceland Latvia Lithuania Norway Poland Romania Russian Federation Slovakia Sweden Ukraine Duration: 53 days Time span: February 06 2016 to March 29 2016 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-06-2016-to-march-29-2016-at-82-5n-31-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from February 06 2016 to March 29 2016 at 82.5\u00b0N 31.0\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":[1998,1248,1871,1873,2000,2067,2189,1875,1877,1890,2080,2022,1842,2084,1879,2025,1999,1946,1872,1874,2034,2068,2190,1876,1878,1891,2081,2023,1843,2085,1880,2026,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-belarus","category-extremes-affecting-canada","category-extremes-affecting-estonia","category-extremes-affecting-finland","category-extremes-affecting-greenland","category-extremes-affecting-hungary","category-extremes-affecting-iceland","category-extremes-affecting-latvia","category-extremes-affecting-lithuania","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-poland","category-extremes-affecting-romania","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-slovakia","category-extremes-affecting-sweden","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-heat-waves-affecting-belarus","category-heat-waves-affecting-canada","category-heat-waves-affecting-estonia","category-heat-waves-affecting-finland","category-heat-waves-affecting-greenland","category-heat-waves-affecting-hungary","category-heat-waves-affecting-iceland","category-heat-waves-affecting-latvia","category-heat-waves-affecting-lithuania","category-heat-waves-affecting-norway","category-heat-waves-affecting-poland","category-heat-waves-affecting-romania","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-slovakia","category-heat-waves-affecting-sweden","category-heat-waves-affecting-ukraine","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395796","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=395796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}