{"id":466535,"date":"2026-10-31T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-24-2018-to-january-08-2019-at-9-5n-20-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:59:12","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-december-24-2018-to-january-08-2019-at-9-5n-20-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-24-2018-to-january-08-2019-at-9-5n-20-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from December 24 2018 to January 08 2019 at 9.5\u00b0N 20.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Congo DRC<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 16 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: December 24 2018 to January 08 2019<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 29.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 4.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 33.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 9.5\u00b0N 20.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 862604 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2018-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5.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_2018-Dec-24_to_2019-Jan-08_20.0_9.5<\/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): Central African Republic Chad Congo DRC South Sudan Sudan Uganda Duration: 16 days Time span: December 24 2018 to January 08 2019 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 2.5 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 29.0 \u00b0C Maximum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-december-24-2018-to-january-08-2019-at-9-5n-20-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from December 24 2018 to January 08 2019 at 9.5\u00b0N 20.0\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":[2002,2093,2525,1960,1940,1962,2003,2094,2526,2004,2280,2105,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-congo-drc","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-uganda","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-congo-drc","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-uganda","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466535","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=466535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}