Jordan | The Ministry of Water and Irrigation: 2,642 million cubic meters were stored by dams from rain during the past 24 hours, most of them in positive.

Written By طقس العرب on 2022/12/24

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<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said that the rain and flow of valleys that entered the dams during the past 24 hours amounted to about 2,642 million cubic meters, concentrated in the Mujib Dam, 2 million cubic meters, raising the total storage in the dams to 36.8 million cubic meters, or 13.13 percent. % of its total capacity of 280,760 million m3, which is lower than the storage rate for the same period last year, amounting to 38 million m3.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> And that the volume of rain falling since the beginning of the season rose to about 1,510 billion m3 from the general annual rate, or 18.4% of the annual rate of 8.1 billion m3 annually, and the highest rate of rainfall was recorded during the past 24 hours in Qatraneh - Suqa 18 ,5 mm.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> The volume of rainfall during the past 24 hours in all regions of the Kingdom was recorded at 32.4 million m3, concentrated in Karak governorate 12.5 million m3, Amman 8.5 million m3, Tafilah 7.5 million m3, Maan 1.5 million m3, and Aqaba 0.7 million m3, while Madaba recorded 1.3 million m3, and showed that the average rainfall according to its stations was recorded in Karak 5.7 mm, Tafilah 3.4 mm, Maan 0.4 mm, Aqaba 0.7 mm, and the capital an average of 1.7 mm. Madaba 1.6 mm, Zarqa 0.1 mm, Jerash 0.1 mm, Mafraq 0.2 mm, and Irbid 0.2 mm, while the Balqa and Ajloun governorates did not record any precipitation.</p>

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