Rainy Season to Arrive Late

Weather experts have said that there is a 70-percent chance that the El Nino weather phenomenon gets stronger later this year, leading to a late arrival of the rainy season in most parts of Indonesia. The warning of a stronger El Nino weather pattern was delivered by the WMO.

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People go about their daily routines in the receding Pacal Reservoir in Bojonegoro regency, East Java, on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. The ongoing drought has meant the water supplies of Pacal Reservoir are now too low to irrigate 16,000 hectares of rice fields in six districts in Bojonegoro.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Weather experts have said that there is a 70-percent chance that the El Nino weather phenomenon gets stronger later this year, leading to a late arrival of the rainy season in most parts of Indonesia.

The warning of a stronger El Nino weather pattern was delivered by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The intensity of this year’s El Nino cannot be ascertained but, most likely, it would not be as strong as the one in 2015.