{"id":456921,"date":"2026-10-31T19:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-24-2018-to-september-12-2018-at-60-0n-29-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:37:54","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-august-24-2018-to-september-12-2018-at-60-0n-29-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-24-2018-to-september-12-2018-at-60-0n-29-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from August 24 2018 to September 12 2018 at 60.0\u00b0N 29.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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>Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Lebanon<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Moldova<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 20 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: August 24 2018 to September 12 2018<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 4.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 24.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 8.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 39.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 60.0\u00b0N 29.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 4868255 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2018-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0.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-Aug-24_to_2018-Sep-12_29.5_60.0<\/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): Belarus Bulgaria Cyprus Egypt Estonia Finland Greece Iraq Jordan Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Moldova Romania Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria Turkiye Ukraine Duration: 20 days Time span: August 24 2018 to September 12 2018 Statistics over entire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-24-2018-to-september-12-2018-at-60-0n-29-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from August 24 2018 to September 12 2018 at 60.0\u00b0N 29.5\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":[1998,2057,2207,2138,1871,1873,2065,1988,2212,1875,2215,1877,2072,2022,1842,2115,1940,2217,1992,2025,1999,2058,2431,2414,1872,1874,2066,2112,2246,1876,2433,1878,2073,2023,1843,2116,2280,2247,2024,2026,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-belarus","category-extremes-affecting-bulgaria","category-extremes-affecting-cyprus","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-estonia","category-extremes-affecting-finland","category-extremes-affecting-greece","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-jordan","category-extremes-affecting-latvia","category-extremes-affecting-lebanon","category-extremes-affecting-lithuania","category-extremes-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-romania","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-heat-waves-affecting-belarus","category-heat-waves-affecting-bulgaria","category-heat-waves-affecting-cyprus","category-heat-waves-affecting-egypt","category-heat-waves-affecting-estonia","category-heat-waves-affecting-finland","category-heat-waves-affecting-greece","category-heat-waves-affecting-iraq","category-heat-waves-affecting-jordan","category-heat-waves-affecting-latvia","category-heat-waves-affecting-lebanon","category-heat-waves-affecting-lithuania","category-heat-waves-affecting-moldova-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-romania","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-ukraine","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456921","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=456921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}