Indonesia to carry out cloud seeding to prevent further rainfall as death tolls from flooding rises to over 40
A man walks with his scooter through flood water after heavy rain in Jakarta, Indonesia January 1 2020.
The deluge at the start of 2020 was "one of the most extreme rainfall" events since records began in 1866, the country's Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics Agency said in a statement on Friday.With more rain forecast, two small planes have been readied to break up potential rain clouds in the skies above the Sunda Strait, while a bigger plane will be on standby, Indonesia's technology agency BPPT said in a statement.
Television footage on Friday showed floodwaters still inundating some areas of Southeast Asia's largest city.
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