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View all search resultsDeadly floods triggered by unseasonable heavy rains have swept across Indonesia during what should be the peak of the dry season, prompting experts to link the extreme weather to climate change, with the meteorology agency warning that intense rainfall could persist until October.
Several climate and weather phenomena have triggered a late start to this year’s dry season in Indonesia, leading several regions to see thunderstorms and torrential rains until early June, as forecasted fby the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) on Tuesday warned people to be vigilant of potential forest fires during the dry season in Sumatra, but the agency also predicted unseasonal rainfall in some parts of the region in the coming days.
Indonesia is in the peak of the dry season but torrential rains battered several regions in the past few days, causing flooding in several parts of Java and a deadly landslide in Sulawesi, where rescuers are racing to find more than a dozen missing gold miners.
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