BMKG Spots Cyclone Seed in Latest Weather Forecast

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The activities of the 98W tropical cyclone seed are being closely monitored by the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency, or BMKG, in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean north of New Guinea. The cyclone seed has built air speeds reaching 15 knots (28km/h).

This cyclone seed is currently moving to the western region and is expected to turn into a full-on low-category tropical cyclone after the convergence and confluence zones were detected over the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines. 

This situation causes an increase in the potential growth of rain clouds in the vicinity of the tropical cyclone throughout the convergence zones. 

A cyclonic circulation has been monitored in West Papua and sparked the formation of convergence areas from the Seram Sea to the north coast of West Papua, and from mountainous Papua to the west coast of West Papua.

Other convergence areas were observed extending from the Gulf of Thailand to Vietnam, from the west coast of Aceh to the Malacca Strait, from the west coast of Bengkulu to the west coast of West Sumatra, from the eastern Java Sea to the north coast of East Java, and from Southeast Sulawesi to Central Sulawesi.

Air temperatures are ranging around 21-34 degrees Celsius with the lowest temperature in Bandung, while the highest is detected at Surabaya, Pontianak, Banjarmasin, and Medan. 

BMKG also issued a high tide early warning that could potentially occur in several Indonesian waters on June 5 -6.

MARIA FRANSISCA LAHUR

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