Jakarta Becomes The City With The Longest Hot Day

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JAKARTA - The latest study in Climate Central states that Jakarta is one of the cities with the longest consecutive days in the world in 12 months.

"The cities of Jakarta and Tangerang are second in the list of world cities experiencing successive (heat streaks) days with 17 days, from October 7 to October 24," said Vice President for Climate Central Science Dr Andrew Pershing in a statement quoted by ANTARA, Friday, November 10.

Apart from Jakarta and Tangerang, Andrew said the City of New Orleans in the United States (US) is also in this position, with the hottest days in a row from July 30 to August 15. Meanwhile, the City of Houston (US) is ranked the top with 22 consecutive days, from July 31 to August 21.

In Indonesia itself, he said his party analyzed 14 cities. In this observation, the Climate Shift Index successively reached its maximum level of 5.

This value suggests that climate change causes the possibility of extreme heat at least five times more likely to occur.

"The last twelve months (November 2022-October 2023) have been the hottest 12 months in history, with an average temperature increase of 1.3 degrees Celsius," he said.

Indonesia, he said, as one of the tropical Asian countries has also experienced an increase in temperature in the past year. In fact, based on the calculation of the Climate Shift Index, Indonesia ranks at the top among G20 countries with an average of 2.4, beating Saudi Arabia (2.3) and Mexico (2.1).

Weather distribution analysis revealed that during that time range, 5.7 billion people were exposed to at least 30 days of above-average temperatures at least three times more likely to occur by the influence of climate change, or level three on the Climate Shift Index.

Andrew considered the record exactly as previously predicted, which he said was triggered by carbon pollution.

In line with this, Researcher from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Prof. Edvin Aldrian admitted that he was worried that the increase in geothermal temperatures would come sooner than previously predicted.

"With the average global temperature rise reaching 1.3 degrees Celsius, I am afraid that a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius will occur faster than expected by 2030," he said.

Although there are a number of natural factors that can trigger such as El Nino and the position of the sun approaching the earth, he assesses that human activity is the factor that affects the most temperature rise on Earth.