BMKG: New Rainy Season Transition Starting November

JAKARTA - Head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Dwikorita Karnawati said the transition from the dry season to the rainy season will only start in November.

Dwikorita explained that based on the latest satellite data monitoring, the peak of the dry season, which was previously predicted to occur in September, is actually still ongoing until the end of October.

"We see that this October doesn't seem to have gone down yet, so this peak is still predicted until the end of October and November there will be a transition from drought to the rainy season," said Dwikorita when met at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, October 3.

Dwikorita explained that although the rain is predicted to start falling in November, the El Nino weather phenomenon is still predicted until the end of the year.

The presence of a monsoon wind from the direction of Asia that began entering Indonesia in November is the cause of the rain which is expected to fall at that time.

This means that the weather phenomenon of El Nino is still ongoing, but his influence is starting to be swept away by the rain, so it is hoped that the dry season will gradually decrease.

The phenomenon of El Nino is expected to continue until the end of the year and only weaken in February-March.

Therefore, BMKG urges the public not to trigger things that can cause fires because the peak of dry dry drought is still ongoing during October.

"So don't try to intentionally or accidentally cause a fire, because extinguishing it will be difficult to do," said Dwikorita.