BMKG: The Majority of Big Cities in Indonesia are Sunny and Cloudy

JAKARTA - Through the official BMKG website in Jakarta, Friday, a number of cities such as Banda Aceh, Bengkulu, Bandar Lampung, Serang, Jakarta, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Samarinda, Tarakan, Denpasar, Kupang, Makassar, Manado, are forecast to be mostly cloudy today.

Meanwhile, sunny weather is predicted to only occur in Surabaya, with air temperatures ranging from 27-33 degrees Celsius and humidity between 55-95 percent.

Cloudy weather is predicted to occur in Padang, Pontianak, Palangkaraya, Kendari, Manado. Ternate, and Ambon today.

Then, rain is also predicted to fall in a number of areas such as Tanjung Pinang, Palembang, Pangkal Pinang, Bandung, Gorontalo, Mamuju, Makassar, Mataram, Manokwari and Jayapura with light intensity.

Moderate intensity rain is predicted to fall in Medan, and rain accompanied by lightning is predicted to fall in Pekanbaru, Jambi and Banjarmasin.

According to BMKG forecaster Rif'at Darajat, the weather conditions of big cities in Indonesia are influenced by the presence of three cyclonic circulations and the seeds of tropical cyclone 91P.

"Three cyclonic circulations in the waters north of West Kalimantan, then the Pacific Ocean north of Papua and the Banda Sea," he said.

Rift'at said that these conditions could increase the potential for rain cloud growth around cyclonic circulation areas.

Tropical cyclone seed 91P around the Arafuru Sea has a low chance of becoming a cyclone, resulting in the potential for moderate to heavy rain and strong winds around the cyclone seed area.