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Jakarta, Tangerang among cities with longest streak of hot days in the world: Study
Indonesia has experienced reduced rice production, forest fires and landfill fires as an impact of the long dry season caused by El Niño this year.
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Parched land: Goats belonging to a local resident roam on a dried-out rice field in Jonggol village, Bogor regency, West Java on Aug. 2, 2023. The Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency (BMKG) has forecast that the El Niño weather phenomenon will affect 63 percent of the country’s territory this year.
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akarta and Tangerang in neighboring Banten ranked joint second as cities with the longest consecutive days experiencing extreme heat, also known as a heat streak, with a total of 17 days of extreme temperatures from Oct. 7 to 24, a study by think tank Climate Central finds.
In its latest study, the agency analyzed 14 cities in Indonesia and found nine experienced heat streaks. Jakarta and Tangerang’s 17-day streak matched that of the United States city of New Orleans, which experienced a heat streak from July 30 to Aug. 15. Houston in Texas, the US, topped the list with 22 consecutive days from July 31 to Aug. 21.
Climate Central’s study examined how pollution affected countries and major cities worldwide from Nov. 2022 to Oct. 2023. It found that global temperatures rose by more than 1.3 degrees Celsius.
This situation affected 7.8 billion people, or 99 percent of the global human population, with only Iceland and Lesotho recording cooler-than-normal temperatures.
“This record 12 months is exactly what we would expect from a global climate fueled by carbon pollution,” said Andrew Pershing, vice president of science at Climate Central.
“Records will continue to be set next year, especially as an intensifying El Niño kicks in and exposes billions to the impacts of unusual heat. While climate impacts are most severe in equatorial developing countries, witnessing extreme heat waves triggered by climate change in the US, India, Japan and Europe underscores that no one is safe from climate change.”
Indonesia has experienced droughts and crop failures as a result of an extended dry season that began earlier this year. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded two regencies in East Nusa Tenggara, East Sumba and Rote Ndao, that have experienced 176 days without rain.
