BMKG Warns of Possible Flooding, Heavy Rainfall Over Java Island
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24 October 2022 07:24 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) continues to issue a weather warning for West, Central, and East Java regions over potential floods and landslides caused by high-intensity rainfall on October 24.
Bandung – located in West Java – is one of the major provincial capitals expected to experience heavy rainfall today along with Pontianak and Pekanbaru.
Meanwhile, Yogyakarta, Jambi, Pangkal Pinang, and Bandar Lampung are expected to experience thunderstorms.
Other regions that will likely be showered by mild rainfall include Tanjung Pinang, Padang, Palembang and Medan. And light rain in Banda Aceh, Denpasar, Bengkulu, Central Jakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Palangka Raya, Samarinda, Tarakan, Ternate, Jayapura, Manokwari and Makassar.
The BMKG recorded a temperature range from a low of 2 degrees Celsius in Bandung and a high of 33 degrees in Denpasar, Gorontalo, Banjarmasin, Mataram, and Makassar for today.
BMKG is also currently looking closely at the developments of the Tropical Cyclone 93W seed in the Philippine Sea which forms a confluence/convergence area that extends in the southern Philippines, in the Sulawesi Sea, in North Sulawesi and in West Papua as well as a confluence area in the Pacific Ocean north of Papua West.
MARIA FRANSISCA LAHUR
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