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JAKARTA, iNews.id – Monitoring by the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) that hot and scorching temperatures in Indonesia have increased in recent days. This condition is not a heat wave.
According to BMKG, a heat wave in climatology is defined as a period of unusually hot weather (temperature) lasting five consecutive days or more according to the World Meteorological Agency or WMO, accompanied by high humidity.
“To be considered a heat wave, a site must record a daily maximum temperature that exceeds a statistical threshold, for example, 5 degrees Celsius warmer than the climatological average maximum temperature. If the maximum temperature occurs within its average range and does not it lasts long, it does not say like a heat wave ”, quoted from the Office of Legal Affairs and Organization of the Public Relations Section of the BMKG, Saturday (11/14/2020).
Publisher: Divine Grace
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