The scattering of Salt is not to keep out the Rain

COMPASS/IWAN SETIYAWAN Illustration. Overcast sky above black menggelayut in the national monument, Jakarta, Thursday (14/2/2013). Parts of Indonesia must be aware of the impact of extreme weather as the storms in Northern Australia seedlings and West Lampung. This condition could potentially inflict heavy rain that could flood and landslide mnegakibatkan.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – even though there are already scattering salt sodium chloride (NaCl) in a number of places, but still just Jakarta rain washed down. This afternoon the rain falling on some areas of Jakarta, while the gloomy clouds still menggelayut in the sky.Sowing salt do not to keep out the rain, but rather reduce the bad effects of the formation of thick clouds.

"Weather modification Technology to reduce bad impact only the establishment of thick clouds that leads to Jakarta. Without this modification, then the rain in Jakarta falling will be even greater. If it is still raining in Jakarta, it was raining because local clouds in the upper reaches has been exposed to rain beforehand, "said the head of the artificial Rain UPT Agency assessment and application of technology (BPPT) F Heru Widodo, Tuesday (17/2/2013).

Weather modification technology (TMC) done by sprinkling salt or sodium chloride (NaCl) in a number of places. Until this afternoon, the team had been doing the TMC 55 times the flight with 154,3 tonnes of salt sprinkled. This weather modification started January 26, then at the request of the provincial Government of DKI Jakarta in collaboration with the National Agency of disaster mitigation and BPPT.

Head of the Division of Informatics disaster relief agency of the region of DKI Jakarta Bambang Surya son of drop in rainfall justifies Jakarta is a local rain. Rain falling JAWA currently light and moderate in intensity. Although there is a thick cloud, but predicted rain until tomorrow in the scale of being. So far, said Bambang from 11 monitoring points of water surface elevations are all in normal condition. There is no surface water that exceeds the normal limit.