{"id":417015,"date":"2026-10-30T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-04-2016-to-january-01-2017-at-72-0n-193-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:40:24","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-december-04-2016-to-january-01-2017-at-72-0n-193-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-04-2016-to-january-01-2017-at-72-0n-193-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from December 04 2016 to January 01 2017 at 72.0\u00b0N 193.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Greenland<\/li>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 29 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: December 04 2016 to January 01 2017<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 10.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: -8.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 33.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 11.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 72.0\u00b0N 193.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 14238467 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0.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_2016-Dec-04_to_2017-Jan-01_193.0_72.0<\/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): Canada Finland Greenland Iceland Norway Russian Federation Sweden United Kingdom United States Duration: 29 days Time span: December 04 2016 to January 01 2017 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 10.9 \u00b0C Mean temperature: -8.4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-04-2016-to-january-01-2017-at-72-0n-193-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from December 04 2016 to January 01 2017 at 72.0\u00b0N 193.0\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":[1248,1873,2000,2189,1890,1842,1879,2090,1250,1946,1874,2034,2190,1891,1843,1880,2091,1881,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-canada","category-extremes-affecting-finland","category-extremes-affecting-greenland","category-extremes-affecting-iceland","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-sweden","category-extremes-affecting-united-kingdom","category-extremes-affecting-united-states","category-heat-waves-affecting-canada","category-heat-waves-affecting-finland","category-heat-waves-affecting-greenland","category-heat-waves-affecting-iceland","category-heat-waves-affecting-norway","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-sweden","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-kingdom","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-states","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417015","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=417015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}