Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) melakukan operasi modifikasi cuaca (OMC) mengantisipasi bencana hidrometeorologi seperti banjir dan longsor di wilayah Kalimantan Selatan.
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00:00BNPB National Disaster Management Agency carried out weather modification operations as an effort to reduce rainfall in the province of South Kalimantan on Thursday, January 30.
00:16Weather modification operations are carried out by redistributing rainfall to several safe points, one of which is the sea,
00:23i.e. by sprinkling salt to speed up rainfall before the clouds reach the ground,
00:29and sprinkling kapur tohor to let the clouds go so that the rain does not occur.
00:35The Director of the National Disaster Resource Support BNPB, Agus Rianto, stated that this operation has been studied with the body of meteorology, climatology and geophysics.
00:45The operation lasted for two days, from 29 to 30 January, at the request of the government of South Kalimantan province.
00:55We study how to reduce rainfall with high intensity according to the KG prediction,
01:02by modifying the rainfall redistribution to several safe points.
01:11One of the safe points is of course the sea.
01:14If we drop it in the sea, the rainfall on the ground will decrease.
01:23So that's the principle.
01:25Alhamdulillah, in accordance with the wishes of the Governor of South Kalimantan,
01:30BNPB responded very quickly to the conditions of our disaster in South Kalimantan, especially floods.
01:36And Alhamdulillah, since yesterday we have been assisted by BNPB to carry out weather modification operations.
01:43This is a real step by the central government.
01:47It is a form of protection for our people, especially in South Kalimantan.
01:51Agus added that weather modification operations in the rainy season have been carried out several times.
01:57In fact, according to him, the effectiveness reaches 70% in minimizing potential disasters such as floods and landslides.
02:05From the new flood city of South Kalimantan, Latif Tohir, Antara News Agency reported.