Jakarta – The Meteorology, Meteorology, and Geophysics Firm (BMKG) reminded the neighborhood to beware of the potential for moderate- to-heavy-intensity rains at the start of this year’s dry season.
” By observing the development of climatic characteristics, we forecast the potential for moderate- to heavy-intensity rain can still occur. Throughout this duration, we should be aware of the potential for extremely high to extreme rain in central and eastern Indonesia,” BMKG Deputy for Meteorology Guswanto noted in a press statement gotten here, Saturday.
Guswanto said his side projections rains in Sumatra’s areas, such as North Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands, West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu, South Sumatra, Bangka Belitung Islands, and Lampung, on July 8-10, 2023.
During that period, rains can likewise happen in parts of Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, and East Java in addition to parts of West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and North Kalimantan, he remarked.
In eastern Indonesia, rains during this period are forecast to take place in parts of North Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Maluku, North Maluku, West Papua, and Papua.
Guswanto then accentuated a number of atmospheric characteristics aspects that triggered rainfall to still occur at the start of the dry season. A few of the aspects consist of the active Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Kelvin and Rossby equatorial waves that can increase the development capacity of storm cloud and indirectly increase rainfall.
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He kept in mind that the MJO and Kelvin waves move from west to east, from the Indian Ocean towards the Pacific Ocean, and pass through the Indonesian area with an MJO movement cycle of around 30 to 40 days, whereas the Kelvin waves proceed a relatively much faster scale, namely every day.
The Rossby waves move from east to west, from the Pacific Ocean towards the Indian Ocean, and pass through Indonesia.
Comparable to the MJO and the Kelvin wave, Guswanto kept in mind that the active Rossby wave in the Indonesian area can contribute to an increase in the growth of rain clouds and indirectly have an influence on increasing rains.
” For that reason, the BMKG advised individuals to increase their caution and prepare mitigation efforts against the capacity for heavy to really heavy rain in the environments,” he specified.
The community can access the latest information concerning weather forecasts on the official BMKG details channels, such as the social media account @infobmkg, the official BMKG site, and the 196 BMKG call center service.
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