{"id":598852,"date":"2025-11-28T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598852\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:27:11","slug":"asia-extreme-weather-ninety-dead-in-indonesia-floods-as-cyclone-displaces-thousands-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598852\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia extreme weather: Ninety dead in Indonesia floods as cyclone displaces thousands in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exceptionally rare for cyclones to happen in Indonesia, says researcherpublished at 05:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p>05:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Arie Firdaus<\/strong><br \/>BBC Indonesian<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The widespread flooding and landslides hitting Indonesia over the past few days have been triggered by Cyclone Senyar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is exceptionally rare for cyclones to happen in Indonesia, as they almost never form near the equator, says Erma Yulihastin, a researcher at the country&#8217;s National Research  and Innovation Agency\u2019s Climate and Atmospheric Research Center (BRIN). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 23 November, rainfall on Sumatra\u2019s west coast reached 160 mm (6.2in) per day &#8211; then, on 24 November, rose to 226 mm per day. These numbers far exceed Indonesia\u2019s average monthly rainfall of around 150 mm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIf rainfall exceeds 100 mm in a day, it is already considered extreme &#8211; let alone reaching 200 mm,\u201d says Erma. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Central Tapanuli and Sibolga &#8211; two areas on North Sumatra\u2019s west coast &#8211; rainfall over four days reached as high as 800 mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exceptionally rare for cyclones to happen in Indonesia, says researcherpublished at 05:34 GMT 05:34 GMT Arie FirdausBBC Indonesian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-598852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115626380628354670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}