Weather January 16, Most Cities In Indonesia Are Raining Tuesday Afternoon

Illustration of rain (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicts light to moderate rain to dominate weather conditions in big cities in Indonesia. "The air temperature of big cities in Indonesia ranges from 19 to 35 degrees Celsius with humidity ranging from 55 to 100 percent," said BMKG forecaster Clara Avila Dea in a statement quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 16. Based on BMKG's weather forecast, cloudy weather on the island of Sumatra has the potential Covering the sky of Banda Aceh and Padang. Light to moderate rain is predicted to occur in Tanjung Pinang, Bengkulu, Palembang, Bandar Lampung, and Medan. Beware of rain accompanied by lightning that has the potential to fall in Pekanbaru, Jambi, Pangkal Pinang. In Java, cloudy skies have the potential to blanket the mainland of Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Meanwhile, light to heavy rain has the potential to fall in Serang, Semarang, Bandung, and Surabaya. In the Sunda Kecil Islands, light rain is predicted to occur in Mataram and Kupang. As for sunny cloudy weather, it has the potential to occur in Denpasar. On the island of Kalimantan, BMKG predicts that the majority of major cities there have the potential for thunderstorms, namely Tanjung Selor, Samarinda, and Banjarmasin. Meanwhile, light to moderate rain is predicted to fall in Palangka Raya and Pontianak. For the eastern region of Indonesia, The BMKG predicts that all areas there have the potential for light rain from Ternate, Ambon, Manokwari, to Jayapura.Clara said there are two seeds of Tropical Cyclone, namely 98S in the Indian Ocean southwest of Sumatra and 99S in the northern Australian mainland Baines. The 98s tropical cyclone seeds have the potential to grow into tropical cyclones in the big category in the next 48 to 72 hours which has an indirect impact on sea wave heights of 2.5 to 4 meters in the Indian Ocean. The Mentawai Islands to Lampung. Meanwhile, the seeds of tropical cyclone 99s have the potential for the next 72 hours of the body to become a tropical cyclone in a small category which has an indirect impact on sea wave heights of 2.5 to 4 meters in the southern Banda Sea of the waters of the Sermata Islands to Tanimbar and the Arafuru Sea. The surface wind in northern Indonesia is generally dominated by winds from the northeast. Then, the southern region of Indonesia is generally dominated by winds blowing from the direction south to west with speeds ranging from 10 to 50 kilometers per hour.

"The estimated sea wave height in Indonesian waters in general is still quite conducive, which ranges from 1.25 to 2.5 meters," said Clara. "Be aware of waves with a height of 2.5 to 4 meters in the North Natuna Sea, the southwest Indian Ocean of Sumatra, the Arafuru Sea, the Pacific Ocean north of Papua," he concluded.