Jordan - Water: The rainfall rate increased to 117.2%, the dams entered about 4.5 cubic meters, and the total storage amounted to 126 million cubic meters.

Written By طقس العرب on 2023/04/14

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<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said that the volume of rain falling from the beginning of the season rose to 117.2% from the general annual rate of 8.1 billion m3 annually, accounting for 147.5% of the total rainfall last year, and that the highest rate of rainfall was recorded During the past 24 hours in Amman / Al-Bayader, 29.2 mm during the past 24 hours, noting that the precipitation rate for the same period last year was 79.1% of the general average.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> And she added that the dams entered 4.5 million cubic meters within 24 hours, concentrated in the King Talal Dam with 3.5 million cubic meters (its storage is 52.5 million cubic meters, or 78%), to raise the storage in all dams to about 126 million cubic meters, or 45% of their capacity. The total amount of 280,759 million cubic meters.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> And it indicated that the average rainfall, according to its stations during the past 24 hours, was recorded in the capital, Amman, at an average of 17.8 mm, Al-Balqa 18 mm, Madaba 11.1 mm, Zarqa 6.9 mm, Jerash 13.2 mm, Mafraq 7.3 mm, Irbid 7.5 mm, Ajloun 16.1 mm, Karak 0.4 mm, while Tafilah, Maan and Aqaba did not record any precipitation during the past 24 hours.</p>

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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