{"id":436840,"date":"2026-10-31T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-30-2017-to-february-25-2018-at-16-5n-223-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:01:13","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-october-30-2017-to-february-25-2018-at-16-5n-223-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-30-2017-to-february-25-2018-at-16-5n-223-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from October 30 2017 to February 25 2018 at 16.5\u00b0N 223.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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>Canada<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>Greenland<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 119 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: October 30 2017 to February 25 2018<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 5.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 9.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 26.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 30.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 16.5\u00b0N 223.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 28947093 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5.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_2017-Oct-30_to_2018-Feb-25_223.5_16.5<\/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): Canada El Salvador Greenland Guatemala Iceland Mexico Norway Russian Federation United States Duration: 119 days Time span: October 30 2017 to February 25 2018 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 5.2 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 9.1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-october-30-2017-to-february-25-2018-at-16-5n-223-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from October 30 2017 to February 25 2018 at 16.5\u00b0N 223.5\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":[1248,2264,2000,2266,2189,1852,1890,1842,1250,1946,2265,2034,2267,2190,2161,1891,1843,1881,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-canada","category-extremes-affecting-el-salvador","category-extremes-affecting-greenland","category-extremes-affecting-guatemala","category-extremes-affecting-iceland","category-extremes-affecting-mexico","category-extremes-affecting-norway","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-united-states","category-heat-waves-affecting-canada","category-heat-waves-affecting-el-salvador","category-heat-waves-affecting-greenland","category-heat-waves-affecting-guatemala","category-heat-waves-affecting-iceland","category-heat-waves-affecting-mexico","category-heat-waves-affecting-norway","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","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\/436840","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=436840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}