Early Warning Potential Extreme Weather, Heavy Rain accompanied by Strong Winds and Lightning

KOMPAS.com- Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Council (BMKG) emit early warning extreme weather which is likely to happen in the next two days, today, Thursday (24/2/2022) to Friday (25/2/2022).

BMKG Deputy for Meteorology, Guswanto in his written statement, said that: extreme weather early warning This can occur in the form of heavy rain which can be accompanied by strong winds and lightning or lightning.

Meanwhile, triggers for extreme weather in some areas Indonesia in the next few days this is quite diverse.

It is known that the center of low pressure is observed in the Indian Ocean southwest of Banten, and in the Timor Sea which forms an area of ​​increasing wind speed >25 knots (Low Level Jet).

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The center of low pressure, the trigger for this extreme weather, is known to extend from the Flores Sea to the Timor Sea and from the Seram Sea to the Banda Sea.

Furthermore, it forms a confluence area that extends in South Kalimantan to the Makassar Strait, southern Sulawesi, Java Sea, East Nusa Tenggara, and West Nusa Tenggara.

Meanwhile, the convergence area was also observed extending across Aceh, from North Sumatra to Jambi, from Bengkulu to Lampung, from southern Banten to West Java, in East Java, from North Kalimantan to East Kalimantan, central Sulawesi, West Papua and Papua.

“This condition is able to increase the potential for rain cloud growth around the cyclonic circulation area and along the convergence or confluence area,” said Guswanto.

The BMKG provides early warnings of extreme weather in several areas in Indonesia that have the potential for extreme weather impacts, such as: heavy rain accompanied by strong winds and lightning.

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