The Indonesian Region with Coldest Temperature in 2022
- ANTARA FOTO/Idhad Zakaria
VIVA – In the dry season, apparently, some Indonesian region have experience cold temperatures. For example, in West Nusa Tenggara. Climbers' tents in Sembalun, East Lombok, were filled with ice because of the cold temperatures.
It is known, the temperature in the Sembalun Lawang area in the morning touched 9 degrees Celsius. It is reported that extreme cold conditions occur almost every day. In fact, in Tetebatu, East Lombok, the temperature reaches 6 degrees Celsius.
There are several regions in Indonesia also experience the coldest temperatures throughout the dry season in 2022.
1. The Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (TNBTS)
Fenomena frost atau embun upas yang membeku menyerupai salju meluas di kawasan Taman Nasional Bromo Tengger Semeru, Jawa Timur, Selasa pagi, 25 Juni 2019.
- VIVA/Lucky Aditya
Since July, ice dew at Bromo often appears. The Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park Center predicts that this annual phenomenon which is often called Frozen Bromo will last until the peak of the dry season, which is next August.
Public Relations of TNBTS Sarif Hidayat said, one of the phenomena of ice dew that occurred on Mount Bromo was the drastic drop in air temperature, in addition to the influence of the wind when changing from the rainy season to the dry season.
According to him, the phenomenon occurred because the temperature dropped drastically. Usually occurs between 1 am and 5 am. The decrease in temperature was due to high wind pressure. Until it freezes the dew on the leaf surface into ice crystals.
2. Dieng, Central Java
Embun beku menyelimuti tanaman di kawasan Candi Arjuna Dieng, Banjarnegara, Jawa Tengah
- ANTARA FOTO/Idhad Zakaria
Head of BMKG Banjarnegara Geophysics Station, Setyoajie Prayoedhie said that related to the ice dew phenomenon in Dieng, it was still related to the existence of two low pressure centers in the northern hemisphere, namely the 04W low pressure center in the South China Sea west of the Philippines and the 98W low pressure center in the northeastern Philippines.
Setyoajie Prayoedhie also said that the air temperature in Dieng was around minus 1 degree Celsius from 4 am to 5 am.