2.5 million cubic meters were stored by dams during the unstable air situation that affected Jordan

Weather of Arabia - The Kingdom was affected by a state of atmospheric instability resulting from the confluence of a cold air mass in the upper layers of the atmosphere that coincided with its meeting with the Red Sea depression, where heavy thunderstorms of rain fell in the south and east of the Kingdom that led to the formation of torrents in some southern regions.

The Minister of Water and Irrigation, Dr. Mutasim Saeedan, said that during the atmospheric instability that affected the Kingdom on Sunday, 2.5 million cubic meters of rainwater were stored, raising the total storage in the dams to 103 million cubic meters, a rate of 30.67% of the total capacity of 336.4. Million cubic meters in the 14 major dams.

Saeedan added in a statement today, that the volume of rainfall in all regions of the Kingdom amounted to 70 million cubic meters, accounting for 0.9% of the long-term annual rate of 8.1 billion cubic meters annually, and the largest share was for Ma'an Governorate, where the amount of precipitation reached 39 million meters. Cubic meters, followed by the Capital Governorate with 7.5 million cubic meters.

Saeedan appealed to citizens to take advantage of any rainfalls and store them in all available facilities, and to make use of them in all uses in order to achieve national aspirations to enhance water security, calling for waste and waste not to be dumped into valley streams in order to preserve the quality of surface and ground water.

Source: Petra