Long-awaited rain arrives in Jakarta<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The long awaited rain fell throughout Jakarta
\nyesterday evening as forecast by the National Meteorology and
\nGeophysics Agency, an official said.<\/p>\n
\"Today's rainfall is spread evenly, but this is just the
\nbeginning of the rainy season,\" Sri Diharto, head of the agency,
\ntold The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
The rain fell heavily at first but slowed to a drizzle after a
\nfew minutes, there were also intermittent bursts of thunder
\nthroughout the evening, he said.<\/p>\n
The agency forecast earlier that the rainy season would start
\nin Jakarta sometime between the second week of November and the
\nfirst week of December.<\/p>\n
\"Even though this is a good beginning, we can't depend
\nentirely on natural rain,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"The cloud groups are not yet forming as well as expected,\" he
\nadded.<\/p>\n
The agency had urged the Agency for the Assessment and
\nApplication of Technology to continue cloud seeding to help speed
\nup the onset of the rainy season, he said.<\/p>\n
Cloud seeding operations should be concentrated in the West
\nJava area in a bid to help refill Jatiluhur dam, he said.<\/p>\n
He said it would not yet rain everyday, only once every two
\ndays to three days.<\/p>\n
The constant, heavy rain is predicted to start falling next
\nmonth and would continue until March.<\/p>\n
Yesterday's rain was accelerated by a cold surge in China
\nwhich subsequently caused a drop in temperatures in that area, he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Earlier he said that as an archipelagic country near the
\nequator Indonesia was prone to weather changes due to cross winds
\nand other climatic factors.<\/p>\n
He said that every change here depended on what happened
\noutside Indonesia.<\/p>\n
He said that yesterday's rain was not the first rainfall in
\nJava because the rain had also started falling in a number of
\nother areas recently.<\/p>\n
But it was a sign that the rainy season had finally begun, he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
He said that the good rain clouds would be formed when the
\nWest monsoon wind, caused by rising temperatures in Australia,
\narrived.<\/p>\n
\"This... takes place usually in December,\" he said. (04)<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/long-awaited-rain-arrives-in-jakarta-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }