Falling Down Ice Rain surround Merapi Slopes

THURSDAY, 20 JANUARY 2011 | 15:24 pm Large Normal Small Tourism Merapi. TEMPOTEMPO Interactive, Sleman a - of a marble hail stones occur in the area of the slopes of Mount Merapi, to be precise in a number of Pakem District, Sleman District, Yogyakarta Special Region, on Thursday (20 / 1) afternoon. Hail accompanied by heavy rain and strong wind it takes about 30 minutes, at 13:30. As a result zinc-zinc floating homes and dozens of trees fell. "The hail accompanied by strong winds hit several areas on the slopes of Merapi Mountain, if strong winds often occur, but hail the first time," said the SAR team members Sleman, Sunardi. Ice rain washed locations that include the District Pakem, Cangkringan, and choosed Turi, Sleman regency. Along the road in the village of Student Military Sardonoharjo choosed to Pulowatu Purwobinangun Pakem too many fallen trees. Electricity also died a few hours due to explode travo broken by falling trees and wires tumbang.Tim SAR with a big chainsaw (chinsaw) opened the road by falling trees collapsed. According to Section Chief of Data and Information, Station Geophysics, Climatology and Geophysics Agency Meterorologi Yogyakarta, Toni Agus Wijaya, the phenomenon was due to hail the emergence of cumulonimbus clouds which affects the ice rain. Clouds are different than usual with a vertical form with a certain height on the existing clouds. Cloud, he said, touching the highest point in the air temperature is very cold and then be frozen particles during rain. "The effect occurs hail," he said. If so, it could be concluded that extreme weather has caused many natural phenomena or natural changes that are not commonly encountered. Temperatures can get very cold or very hot and one of the phenomena that appear at Merapi