Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rai...
JAKARTA - Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded.
The deluge at the start of 2020 was “one of the most extreme rainfall” events since records began in 1866, the country’s Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics Agency said in a statement on Friday.With more rain forecast, two small planes have been readied to break up potential rain clouds in the skies above the Sunda Strait, while a bigger plane will be on standby, Indonesia’s technology agency BPPT said in a statement.
Television footage on Friday showed flood waters still inundating some areas of Southeast Asia’s largest city.
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