Weather Friday 15 March, Jakarta Morning Mendung, Rainy Afternoon

Illustration of rain (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicts that the weather in DKI Jakarta will be cloudy or cloudy on Friday, March 15 morning. However, the weather will change during the day.

Quoted from the official BMKG website, the weather in West Jakarta, Central Jakarta and North Jakarta will rain with light intensity. The rest, South Jakarta, East Jakarta, and the Thousand Islands will be cloudy.

After that, the entire Jakarta area will be cloudy at night.

The air temperature in Jakarta is in the range between 24 and 29 degrees Celsius, with humidity levels reaching 80 to 100 percent.

The intensity of rain in Jabodetabek from Friday, March 15 in the morning until the morning caused the water level (TMA) of the Ciliwung River to overflow. TMA in Katulampa Dam is on standby 4 centimeters and 3 floodgates in Jakarta are in Alert 3 Jakarta.

Katulampa Dam Supervisor Andi Sudirman said TMI at Katulampa Dam had increased since early Friday morning and until 06.00 WIB it was recorded at 70 cm or still in the normal category.

"Precise periodically from 50 cm on Friday morning to 70 cm this morning and the weather is currently drizzling," Andi told VOI.ID, Friday morning.

Andi estimates that the Ciliwung TMA will still rise, considering that the BMKG warned that the rainfall was still high on Friday afternoon and evening upstream of Ciliwung Puncak, Cisarua.

Meanwhile, the Panus Water Gate, Depok on Friday morning was still on standby 4 below 150 cm.

Meanwhile, three floodgates in Jakarta are currently in Alert 3 position, namely, Manggarai Sluice Gate 795 cm, Karet Water Gate 490 cm, and Fish Market 195 cm.