{"id":490464,"date":"2026-11-01T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-december-27-2019-to-january-06-2020-at-7-5n-8-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:24:34","slug":"cold-spell-occuring-from-december-27-2019-to-january-06-2020-at-7-5n-8-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-december-27-2019-to-january-06-2020-at-7-5n-8-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold spell occuring from December 27 2019 to January 06 2020 at 7.5\u00b0N 8.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Liberia<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 11 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: December 27 2019 to January 06 2020<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: -3.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 16.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature anomaly: -9.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Minimum temperature: 0.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 7.5\u00b0N 8.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 5011320 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5.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_2019-Dec-27_to_2020-Jan-06_8.0_7.5<\/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 Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Egypt Ghana Guinea Liberia Libya Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Togo Duration: 11 days Time span: December 27 2019 to January 06 2020 Statistics over entire affected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/cold-spell-occuring-from-december-27-2019-to-january-06-2020-at-7-5n-8-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold spell occuring from December 27 2019 to January 06 2020 at 7.5\u00b0N 8.0\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":[2591,2772,2773,2774,2770,2587,2800,2588,2811,2779,2802,2589,2775,2789,2776,2777,2812,1924,2038,2040,2162,2002,2093,2332,2138,2293,2348,2395,1944,1926,1928,2042,2044,2346,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-spells-affecting-algeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-benin","category-cold-spells-affecting-burkina-faso","category-cold-spells-affecting-cameroon","category-cold-spells-affecting-central-african-republic","category-cold-spells-affecting-chad","category-cold-spells-affecting-cote-divoire","category-cold-spells-affecting-egypt","category-cold-spells-affecting-ghana","category-cold-spells-affecting-guinea","category-cold-spells-affecting-liberia","category-cold-spells-affecting-libya","category-cold-spells-affecting-mali","category-cold-spells-affecting-mauritania","category-cold-spells-affecting-niger","category-cold-spells-affecting-nigeria","category-cold-spells-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-liberia","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490464","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=490464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}