Low rainfall from February 16-19 improves the rainy season 2020/2021 at rates ranging between (1% to 27%)

Written By غالب أبوبكر on 2021/02/22

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.

Arab Weather - The Director of the Meteorology Department, Mr. Raed Rafid Al Khattab, stated that the Kingdom was affected by the evening hours of Tuesday 02/16/2021 by a very cold air mass accompanying an air depression centered on the east of the island of Cyprus, which continued to affect the Kingdom until the late evening hours of Friday 19 / 02/2021.

Most regions of the Kingdom witnessed heavy rains at intervals accompanied by thunder, thunder and occasional hail, while snow fell over mountain heights that are more than 700 meters above sea level,

As snow accumulated over the mountain heights in varying proportions, the highest in the northern heights was at the Ras Munif weather station, in which the thickness of the snow reached 50 cm, while the thickness of the snow ranged in the central regions between 10-25 cm, including the Salt weather station, which reached the height of the snow It is 15 cm in it, and the southern highlands also witnessed accumulations of snow, the thickness of which was 10 cm in the meteorological station of Al-Rabbah, and the monitoring station of Al-Shoubak 3 cm, and the Kingdom also witnessed during this depression westerly winds to a south-westerly active speed with strong gusts sometimes that led to a decrease and lack of visibility The horizontal level is sometimes due to dust, especially in the Badia regions, where the highest recorded blow was 95 km / hr at the Azraq monitoring station.

Al Khattab added that the quantities of rain and snow that fell on the Kingdom during this depression improved from the current rainy season 2020/2021 at rates ranging from (1% -27%) from the general seasonal average, and the highest total rainfall during this depression reached 108.0 mm In the Irbid monitoring station, it achieved 24% of its general seasonal rate, followed by the Salt monitoring station with a total rainfall of 106.3 mm, achieving 21% of its general seasonal rain rate, while the Baqoura monitoring station achieved 27% of its general seasonal rate with a total of 103.9 mm .

Al Khattab stated that the rain statistics in the Climate Directorate / Meteorology Department and with the end of this depression indicate that the performance of the 2020/2021 rain season is considered around its general average and higher for such a time of the season in most regions of the Kingdom except for the southern regions, including the southern Jordan Valley, and with the end of this The low, the average rainfall totals, the percentages of what has been achieved from the season, and the percentages of increase or decrease over what is supposed to be achieved to date are as follows:

Source: Jordan Meteorological Department

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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