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Indonesia - Climate

Indonesia Climate 1490
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Straddling the equator, Indonesia has a tropical climate characterized by heavy rainfall, high humidity, high temperature, and low winds. The wet season is from November to March, the dry season from April to October. Rainfall in lowland areas averages 180–320 cm (70–125 in) annually, increasing with elevation to an average of 610 cm (240 in) in some mountain areas. In the lowlands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, the rainfall range is 305–370 cm (120–145 in); the amount diminishes southward, closer to the northwest Australian desert. Average humidity is 82%.

Altitude rather than season affects the temperature in Indonesia. At sea level, the mean annual temperature is about 25– 27° C (77–81° F ). There is slight daily variation in temperature, with the greatest variation at inland points and at higher levels. The mean annual temperature at Jakarta is 26° C (79° F ); average annual rainfall is about 200 cm (79 in).

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zoe
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Riley
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Good info, but could you explain more about the areas where rainfall mostly targets?
I wouldalso like it if you mentioned something a child could read, to make it easier, because i have an assigment on this and its sort of annoying to understand.
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chapin
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Shay
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Anngelica
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Tori
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Well i thought that it was good for my soceity and enterprise booklet but i agree that you need to add more information about where rainfall actually falls the most but overall it was pretty usefull!:)
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NocturnalFeline
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Sarah
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This was GREAT information, but it would also be helpful if you mentioned how the climate affects the country
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Savannah
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fast and easy to read was what i need! thanks a million !
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steph
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this is very good information for my science project helped me to find a lot of information about indonesian climate
Thanx!!
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Morrigan
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Doesn't help me much. I need more info about the climate.
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bailey
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wonderful, thanx so much. :] keep up the good work. :P
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nick
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pretty good but needs some more explaing for secondary students to b able to understand it. lol
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zoeyzz
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I have an assignment and its no help i need the tepreture
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Diva dany
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Hi I'm doing a project now and I need help please help what is the natural resources in indonisa
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Diva dany
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Hi I'm doing a project now and I need help please help what is the natural resources in indonisa
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Demeka P.
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This helps assignment due tomorrow for
social studies and i need some sources Thanks =)
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P.s My teacher is picky and he is very weird to understand
so i'm going t create something weird like always that i don't even understand
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Molly
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This information is good, but I need to know more about the climate.
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sydney
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thankyou this helped me alot with a school project!
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Caylen
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Thanks so much this helped me alot with my work that due tommorrow!
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Caylen
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caylen
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THANKS SO MUCH THIS WILL HELP ME WITH MY PROJECT TOMMOROW!!
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Thanks so much u helped me with my project!!! :)
This is the best resource I've used so far!!
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James
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Thank you so much I'm from the Philippines and I am currently making my Marketing Plan for my project in school.. It really helps a lot.. hope to get there in Indonesia
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Stormie
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wow this was good info i really needed this because my project is due in a day.
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tuyr
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hi and thankyou for the info. it helped me in my sst project in which i had to make a weather report on Indonesia thanks again and keep up the good work
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Emily
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I needed this for an assignment it was use full for the most part my assignment info is due tomorrow because I had strep-throat I'm in 6th grade
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Mary Wilson Screws
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Can u please tell me the average yearly snowfall in Indonesia.
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Alayna Dawn Schooley
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Thanks so much for this. It really helped. All the other sites I went to only showed averages for different cities in Indonesia so this was really useful for my project
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joel etwaroo
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it helped me im lucky now I can do a sumatrans tigers habitat
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Miranda
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You need to tell more about it not just one paragraph but it did help me with my project with school thanks.
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He who must not be named
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great info for s.s. report would help if you could tell me the annual temp. for the rainy and dry seasons
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Jake
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Thank you
This information really helped me out with my geography project.
keep up the good work!!!
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blah blah blah
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thank you so much. this helped me a lot with my project. i'm gonna be gone for a week in another state over thanksgiving break. so without this website i would be so behind! thanks so much!
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Steve
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It is possible for you to talk more about the temperature of Indonesia?
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Blerta Rexhepi
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Can you talk about the average all around Indonesia, that would really help

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