{"id":444197,"date":"2026-10-31T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-25-2018-to-september-28-2018-at-17-5n-323-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:37:48","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-march-25-2018-to-september-28-2018-at-17-5n-323-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-25-2018-to-september-28-2018-at-17-5n-323-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from March 25 2018 to September 28 2018 at 17.5\u00b0N 323.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Aruba<\/li>\n<li>Cabo Verde<\/li>\n<li>Canarias<\/li>\n<li>Colombia<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic<\/li>\n<li>Gambia<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Madeira<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Martinique<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Puerto Rico<\/li>\n<li>Saint Eustatius<\/li>\n<li>Saint Lucia<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Venezuela<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 188 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 25 2018 to September 28 2018<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -1.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 22.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -9.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 3.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 17.5\u00b0N 323.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 16841060 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5.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_2018-Mar-25_to_2018-Sep-28_323.5_17.5<\/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): Algeria Aruba Cabo Verde Canarias Colombia Dominican Republic Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Madeira Mali Martinique Mauritania Morocco Portugal Puerto Rico Saint Eustatius Saint Lucia Senegal Spain Venezuela Duration: 188 days Time span: March 25 2018 to September 28 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-march-25-2018-to-september-28-2018-at-17-5n-323-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from March 25 2018 to September 28 2018 at 17.5\u00b0N 323.5\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":[2591,2821,2824,2816,2582,2757,2810,2779,2801,2793,2775,2826,2789,2786,2747,2796,2807,2805,2790,2748,2771,1924,2256,2429,2541,2260,2278,2374,2348,2376,2544,1926,2157,1928,1952,1835,2412,2550,2159,1930,1954,2323,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-algeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-aruba","category-cold-spells-affecting-cabo-verde","category-cold-spells-affecting-canarias","category-cold-spells-affecting-colombia","category-cold-spells-affecting-dominican-republic","category-cold-spells-affecting-gambia","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-cold-spells-affecting-madeira","category-cold-spells-affecting-mali","category-cold-spells-affecting-martinique","category-cold-spells-affecting-mauritania","category-cold-spells-affecting-morocco","category-cold-spells-affecting-portugal","category-cold-spells-affecting-puerto-rico","category-cold-spells-affecting-saint-eustatius","category-cold-spells-affecting-saint-lucia","category-cold-spells-affecting-senegal","category-cold-spells-affecting-spain","category-cold-spells-affecting-venezuela","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-aruba","category-extremes-affecting-cabo-verde","category-extremes-affecting-canarias","category-extremes-affecting-colombia","category-extremes-affecting-dominican-republic","category-extremes-affecting-gambia","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-madeira","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-martinique","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-morocco","category-extremes-affecting-portugal","category-extremes-affecting-puerto-rico","category-extremes-affecting-saint-eustatius","category-extremes-affecting-saint-lucia","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-spain","category-extremes-affecting-venezuela-bolivarian-republic-of","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444197","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=444197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}