Jordan | Ministry of Water and Irrigation: Rainfalls raise the rainy season to 60% and dams to 121 million cubic meters

2024-02-03 2024-02-03T09:59:45Z
ندى ماهر عبدربه
ندى ماهر عبدربه
صانعة مُحتوى

Arabia Weather - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation - Jordan Valley Authority said that the long-term annual rate of rainfall rose as of this morning, Saturday 2/3/2024, to 60.1% 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 39.7%, and that the amounts of water from rain that entered the dams during the past forty-eight hours amounted, as of Saturday morning, to about 2,250 million cubic meters, raising the total storage in the dams. The main storage capacity reached 121 million cubic meters, with a total storage rate of 42% of its storage capacity of 288,128 million cubic metres. The highest amount of precipitation recorded in Bayader Wadi Al-Seer in 24 hours amounted to 14.8 mm, and the rainfall during the past twenty-four hours included most regions of the Kingdom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ministry of Water and Irrigation - Water Authority - Jordan Valley Authority

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