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.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">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</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> 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.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> 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.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> 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%.</p>

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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