Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) revealed that Indonesia is predicted to start entering the dry season in May to June 2024. Currently, Indonesia is at the peak of the rainy season.
Head of the BMKG Climate Change Information Center A Fachri Radjab revealed that the E Nino phenomenon will still be actively monitored throughout January 2024.
However, he said the El Nino phenomenon will gradually weaken towards a neutral phase starting in March 2024. Thus, annual rainfall in 2024 is predicted to approach normal conditions. Although, there are a number of areas that are predicted to experience above normal and below normal rainfall.
“We can say that currently we are in the peak period of the 2024 rainy season, in January and February. However, there are several areas that have entered the dry period, such as Aceh, Eastern North Sumatra and Riau. Because in those areas it really happens “We have had 2 rainy seasons and now we have entered the dry season,” he said in a broadcast on the Ministry of Home Affairs' YouTube account, quoted Thursday (8/2/2024).
As is known, El Nino is a climate phenomenon where there is an anomalous increase in sea surface temperature. This causes the dry season to be hotter and more extreme dry than the usual dry season. Due to El Nino, the dry season in Indonesia in 2023 will be more extreme, triggering food production disruptions and a spike in daily maximum temperatures in a number of areas.
Meanwhile, BMKG predicts that in January-February 2024 it will generally be in the medium-very high category in some areas with low rainfall (
However, continued Fachri, high rainfall until March still has the potential to occur in most parts of Java, namely West Java, northern Central Java, northern West Kalimantan, northern Central Kalimantan, northern South Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, including South Sumatra and part of Lampung.
“Then we entered the dry season in May. In areas where we need to be alert, such as East Central Java, East Java, Bali, NTT, rainfall starts to get low in May. This is related to the planting of food crops,” he explained.
Areas experiencing the dry season are increasingly expanding and it is predicted that in July 2024, Indonesia will experience the peak of the dry season.
“There are more and more dark brown areas, mostly Java, most of Sumatra, Sulawesi too,” he said.
It is stated that the peak of the dry season in Indonesia is predicted to occur in July-August 2024.
“The dry season in 2024 is predicted not to be as dry as the dry season in 2023. However, preparedness in order to control inflation must continue to be implemented. Anticipate both dry and wet hydrometeorological disasters,” concluded Fachri.
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