Ministry of Water and Irrigation: Rainfalls raise the rainy season to 74% and the dams to 140.5 million cubic meters

Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation - Jordan Valley Authority said that the long-term annual rate of rainfall rose as of this morning, Wednesday 3/20/2024, to 74% of the long-term annual rate of about 8.1 billion cubic meters annually.

Note that the percentage of rainfall compared to the long-term annual average on the same date last year was 90%, and that the amounts of water from rain that entered the dams during the past 24 hours amounted as of this morning to about 2 million cubic meters, raising the total storage in the main dams to 140, 5 million cubic meters, with a total storage rate of 48.7% of its storage capacity of 288,128 million cubic metres.

The highest amount of precipitation recorded in Madaba within 24 hours amounted to 27 mm, and the rainfall during the past 24 hours included most regions of the Kingdom.