Narelle tropical storm in the Indian Ocean south of East Nusa Tenggara exactly caused the emergence of a strong wind in the region of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.

Narelle tropical storm in the Indian Ocean south of East Nusa Tenggara exactly caused the emergence of a strong wind in the region of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.



"For two days, the wind in the region of Yogyakarta and surrounding blowing at speeds faster than normal days. This is the effect of the emergence of Hurricane Narelle south Nusat Tenggara (NTT)," said Head of Data and Information Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Tony Agus Wijaya Yogyakarta in Yogyakarta, on Thursday.

According to him, the speed of the wind in Yogyakarta and surrounding areas is almost uniform, ie 50-65 kilometers (km) per hour at sea and on land ranging between 20-30 km per hour.

With a fairly strong winds at sea, the ocean waves in the sea south of Yogyakarta also increased with height of four meters.

In comparison, Tony continued, the wind speed in the northern part of the lower DIY DIY south closer to the sea.

"Typically, wind speeds in the region of Yogyakarta when no disturbances such as tropical storms is between 0-10 miles per hour. Winds in Yogyakarta usually blowing breeze," he said.

Tony explained that the nature of the strong winds that are currently blowing in the Yogyakarta area vary with the nature tornado that struck Yogyakarta some time ago.

"Putting pickaxe is a wind that are local and occur only for a moment with a speed of 40 km per hour. However, a strong wind that occurs when this happens uniformly in Yogyakarta," he said.

BMKG predicted tropical storm would last until January 17 with a peak occurs on Thursday and Friday (11/1).

During strong winds blowing, Tony continued, the rain clouds that overshadow Yogyakarta actually lost because the wind toward the center of the storm.

"At the center of the storm, it is going strong winds with heavy rain. Existing rain clouds` stolen 'by storm. Wind Speed ​​at the center of the storm could reach 120 miles per hour, "he said.

Nevertheless, Tony said, it was still going to happen in the Yogyakarta region, especially during the afternoon and evening.