Jordan - Water: An increase in the rainfall rate to 56%, dams to 89.5 million cubic meters, Aqaba the highest and Tafila the least precipitation

Written By طقس العرب on 2023/02/05

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said that the volume of rain falling from the beginning of the season rose to 56.1% from the general annual rate of 8.1 billion m3 annually, accounting for 70% of the total rainfall last year, and that the highest rate of rainfall was recorded during the hours The past 24 in Salt 19.8 mm during the past 24 hours

And she added that the dams entered 1.5 million m3, raising the storage to 89.5 million m3, raising the storage in them to 31.88% of their total capacity of 280.759 million m3, distributed over the northern and central dams, and the southern dams did not enter any quantities during the past 24 hours.

And it indicated that the rainfall rate, according to its stations, was recorded in the Kingdom’s governorates in the capital, Amman, at an average of 6.8 mm, Al-Balqa 7.7 mm, Madaba 4.4 mm, Zarqa 1.7 mm, Jerash 4.1 mm, Al-Mafraq 1.7 mm, and Irbid. 8.1 mm, Ajloun 9.4 mm, Karak 0.8 mm, while no precipitation was recorded in the governorates of Tafilah, Ma’an and Aqaba.

Regarding the ratio of the amount of rainfall to the long-term average since the beginning of the season, Irbid recorded 60.8%, Ajloun 48.5%, Jerash 33.7%, Zarqa 69.2%, Mafraq 55%, Marka 36.8%, Jabal Al-Hussein 40. 47.9%, Wadi Al-Seer 47.9%, Salt 46.1%, Madaba 42.8%, Karak 31.3%, Tafilah 25.5%, Shobak 32.1%, Ma’an 135%, Aqaba 184.2%.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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