BMKG Says Tropical Cyclone Seeds Near Banten Affect Rain In Several Areas

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency is monitoring tropical cyclone 92S in the monitoring area of the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center (TCWC) Jakarta, although it has a low potential to become a tropical cyclone in the next 24 hours but has an impact in moderate to heavy rain intensity in Bengkulu and Java Island. In a written statement from BMKG received in Jakarta, Saturday, May 28, BMKG Sub-Coordinator for Weather Early Warning, Agie Wandala Putra, said tropical cyclone seeds were observed in the Indian Ocean southwest of Banten with a maximum wind speed of 20 knots and a minimum air pressure of 1007.8 millibars. "Based on the NWP model in the next 48 hours, it shows that 92S seedlings will increase in intensity slightly as they move to the southeast. The potential of this system to grow into tropical cyclones in the next 24 hours is in the low category," he said, quoted by Antara. 92S tropical climate will have an indirect impact on weather conditions in i Indonesia in the next 24 hours.

According to him, some of the impacts include moderate to heavy rain in the provinces of Bengkulu, Lampung, Banten, DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, DI Yogyakarta and East Java. , Lampung, Banten and West Java. The wave heights will reach around 1.25-2.5 meters in the northern part of the Sunda Strait and 2.5-4 meters in the Indian Ocean west of Lampung to the south of West Java, the waters of West Lampung, the southern part of the Sunda Strait. west and south as well as the southern waters of Banten and West Java.