Major flooding still potentially occur mainly in Jakarta and surrounding areas in January 2013

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Major flooding still potentially occur mainly in Jakarta and surrounding areas in January 2013




Major flooding still potentially occur mainly in Jakarta and surrounding areas in January 2013 it entered. Hurricanes or tropical cyclones at this time switching to south of the equator and potentially stronger draw cool seruak from mainland Asia who still experience extreme winters.

"Seruak (cold surge) when formed will cause a thick layer of clouds and widespread. Will rain lasted much longer, "said Head of Public Meteorology Information on Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Mulyono Prabowo, Sunday (30/12/2012), in Jakarta.

At last week's tropical cyclones occur Wukong from waters east of the Philippines toward the South China Sea and decays on Friday. On Saturday followed Mitchell tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean, the waters of Australia's north-west.

Based on the analysis of BMKG on Sunday at 07.00 pm, Mitchell tropical cyclones are the coordinates 21.1 South latitude and 110.2 East longitude. It is 1480 kilometers southwest of Denpasar, Bali.

Direction of motion of the cyclone to the south of the cyclone center at speeds of about 20 kilometers per hour. The maximum wind speed reached 65 miles per hour.

"The intensity of tropical cyclones Mitchell tends to decrease in the next 24 hours with a movement away from Indonesia. However, the pattern of low pressure that could become the next cyclone already there, "said Mulyono.

Downpour

The impact of tropical cyclones in Indonesia Mitchell was heavy rain in the region of West Sumatra, Bengkulu, Jambi, South Sumatra, Lampung, the Pacific Islands, the southern part of West Java, Central Java, East Java, West and East Nusa Tenggara. Ocean waves with a height of more than 3 meters likely to occur in the Indian Ocean west of Padang, Mentawai Islands waters, and the waters west of Lampung.

According to the Head of Climate Change and Air Quality BMKG Edvin Aldrian, awareness of the long duration of heavy rains due to cold seruak Siberia (mainland Asia) should be improved. Previously, seruak cold Siberia was neutralized by Wukong tropical cyclones in the South China Sea