Jakarta Globe, SP/Ari Supriyanti Rikin & Arientha Primanita, Jul 15, 2014
Bemos make their way past an overpass on Monday, July 14, as cold southerly winds sent temperatures down into the low 20s. (Antara Photo/Vitalis Yogi Trisna) |
Jakarta.
Extraordinarily cold weather across parts of Indonesia and Australia over the
last week could be repeated if southerly winds from Antarctica were to return,
the Indonesian meteorology agency said on Tuesday.
The
temperature dropped four to eight degrees Celsius from the July average over
the weekend, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency
(BMKG).
BMKG head
Edvid Aldrian said that the temperature dropped as much as eight degrees in
Serang, Banten province.
“As late as
Monday morning the temperature in Curug was at 23 degrees Celsius while Jakarta
recorded 25 degrees on Monday evening,” he said on Monday.
Edvin said
that Indonesia’s colder-than-usual temperatures were commensurate with the
record-breaking lows felt across parts of Australia, with chilly southerly
winds sending temperatures in Brisbane below freezing. July 11 was the coldest
day in the Queensland state capital for 103 years.
Indonesia
has seen an unusually late start to its dry season, with meteorology chiefs
agreeing that the rainy season had lagged well into July.
“There is a
small chance that such cold weather will happen again. It was because on Sunday
there was low pressure in the Sunda Strait which caused more clouds at the
western part of Indonesia, especially West Java and South Sumatra,” he told the
Jakarta Globe on Tuesday.
Edvin said
that Greater Jakarta was only now beginning to see the start of the dry season,
but added that isolated showers were still a possibility. He said that the
rainy season will start again around September.
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