{"id":453888,"date":"2026-10-31T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-july-20-2018-to-august-15-2018-at-23-0n-25-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:15:33","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-july-20-2018-to-august-15-2018-at-23-0n-25-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-july-20-2018-to-august-15-2018-at-23-0n-25-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from July 20 2018 to August 15 2018 at 23.0\u00b0N 25.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Palestinian Territory<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 27 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: July 20 2018 to August 15 2018<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 3.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 34.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 9.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 38.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 23.0\u00b0N 25.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 2406333 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0.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_2018-Jul-20_to_2018-Aug-15_25.5_23.0<\/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): Algeria Chad Cyprus Egypt Israel Jordan Lebanon Libya Niger Palestinian Territory Saudi Arabia Sudan Duration: 27 days Time span: July 20 2018 to August 15 2018 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 3.4 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-july-20-2018-to-august-15-2018-at-23-0n-25-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from July 20 2018 to August 15 2018 at 23.0\u00b0N 25.5\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":[1924,2093,2207,2138,2289,2212,2215,1944,2042,2548,2115,1940,1925,2094,2431,2414,2432,2246,2433,2388,2043,2549,2116,2280,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cyprus","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-israel","category-extremes-affecting-jordan","category-extremes-affecting-lebanon","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-algeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-cyprus","category-heat-waves-affecting-egypt","category-heat-waves-affecting-israel","category-heat-waves-affecting-jordan","category-heat-waves-affecting-lebanon","category-heat-waves-affecting-libya","category-heat-waves-affecting-niger","category-heat-waves-affecting-palestinian-territory","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453888","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=453888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}