Bengkulu (ANTARA News) - An analyst of the Bengkulu Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency estimated that the height of the sea waves in Indian Ocean west of Bengkulu has increased from 2 to 2.5 meters.

Such high waves also hit Bengkulu and Enggano waters, the BMKG analyst of the Fatmawati Soekarno meteorogical station Suparwi said Friday.

He said the winds in Bengkulu has been blowing from the southwest to the southeast with at a speed of 3-17 knots and the winds in Enggano waters from the southwest to the east at a speed of 5-18 knots.

The winds in the Indian Ocean west of Bengkulu had been blowing from the southeast to the west at a speed of 5-18 knots coupled with light rain.

In the early warning, the BMKG said the sea waves are two to three meters high were raging from the Enggano waters, Lampung waters to the Sunda Strait in the Indian Ocean west of Lampung.

The winds in Bengkulu had been blowing from the southwest to the southeast at a speed of 5 - 30 km per hour or 3 - 17 knots.

Bengkulu has light rainfall in the aftternoon to the night, and the temperature reached 23-31 degrees Celsius and humidity 65-98 pct.(*)

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