JAKARTA - Manado is flooded today. Heavy rain continued to flush heavily.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that heavy rain accompanied by lightning had occurred since 14.05 WITA which caused flooding and landslides.
The location of the incident was in Paal Dua, Manado City and Pineleng District, Minahasa Regency.
Quoted from the information from BMKG, a temporary analysis related to Manado's weather, namely the current dynamic conditions of the atmosphere, namely the low pressure area / LPA (1008 hPa) in the South China Sea and LPA (998 hPa) in the East Sea which forms the Cyclonal Circulation.
This condition causes a wind gradient pattern in North Sulawesi, namely the convergence of air masses / meeting of air masses in the North Sulawesi region. Air masses that meet in North Sulawesi are wet air masses carried from the western Pacific Ocean.
"It was identified that the Atmospheric Lability (Upper Air Observation) at 00 UTC has strong lability indices and has great energy to support the growth of Cumulonimbus (CB) clouds in the North Sulawesi region, especially Manado City and its surroundings. Air humidity in the layer 850mb = 80%, 700mb = 80% and 500 mb = 100%. which shows that the air humidity from the lower layer to the upper layer is very wet, thus supporting the growth of CB clouds in the North Sulawesi region, "said BMKG, Friday, January 22.
According to BMKG, the atmospheric conditions resulted in moderate to heavy rain, accompanied by lightning for a long duration.
Previously reported, the flood was reported to have occurred on Jalan Bethesda, the location of the Ratumbuysang Hospital. In addition, floods occurred on Ring Road Citraland, Malalayang.
"In Malalayang the water level is knee high," said Edwin Monding, a volunteer for North Sulawesi's BPBD when contacted by VOI, Friday, January 22.
According to him, it had been two hours of heavy rain flushing Manado. Edwin said that flooding in a number of roads occurred because the drainage channels were unable to accommodate water discharge.
"It's still raining heavily now," said Edwin, being contacted at 14.53 WIB.
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