BMKG Forecasts Weather In Several Big Cities Of Indonesia Sunny And Cloudy

Illustration - Sunny cloudy skies on high-rise buildings in the Surabaya City area, East Java Province. ANTARA/Fiqih Arfani

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicts that the weather in most major cities in Indonesia has the potential to be cloudy on Sunday, August 13. Sunny cloudy weather is predicted to have the potential to occur in Banda Aceh, Bengkulu, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Gorontalo, Jambi, Bandung, Semarang. Then, Surabaya, Pontianak, Banjarmasin, Tarakan, Pangkal Pinang, Lampung, Ternate, Mataram, Kupang, Mamuju, Makassar, Kendari, Manado, and Palembang. Meanwhile, cloudy weather has the potential to occur in Denpasar, Serang, Palangka Raya, Samarinda, Lampung, Jayapura, and Manokwari. Other cities, such as Tanjung Pinang, Ambon, Pekanbaru, Kendari, Padang, and Medan are predicted to rain during the day or night. BMKG predicts that the rainy season will only occur around November, after the dry dry dry season decreases in intensity in October. Head of BMKG Dwikorita Karnawati said the peak of the dry dry dry dry dry season occurred in mid-August to September with an increasing heat intensity. "After entering October, it will start to decrease, it will decrease but it is still dry. Well, it is predicted that this rain will be November," said Dwikorita some time ago, quoted from Antara, Sunday, August 13. Dwi explained that the weather phenomenon of El Nino is still happening. In fact, it peaked in October-November. Indonesia benefits from the arrival of the rainy season starting November. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) stated that the El Nino phenomenon, which has caused dry dry water for a long time, has caused the Java Island sky to be clear without clouds until the end of October 2023.

The Director General of Environmental Pollution and Damage Control (PPKL) of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Sigit Reliantoro, said that this condition prevented the government from carrying out weather modification operations to reduce rain and make air pollution on the island of Java. "Until the end of October there were no clouds available for weather modification technology operations," he said.