Jordan - Ministry of Water and Irrigation: The general rainfall increased to 55% of the general average, and the dams’ storage reached 88.5 million cubic meters, or 31.5%.

Written By طقس العرب on 2023/02/04

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.

Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said that the volume of rain falling during the current rainy season amounted to 55% of the long-term annual average, accounting for 69% of the volume of rainfall last year, and that what entered the dams of rain and the flow of valleys during the past 24 hours amounted to about 1 6,000,000 cubic meters to raise the total storage in the dams to 88.5 million cubic meters, or 31.5% of their total capacity of 280,760 million cubic meters.

 

It indicated that the incoming quantities were concentrated in the King Talal Dam of 831,000 m3, raising its storage to 29.4 million m3, by 44%, the Unit Dam, 410,000 m3, raising its storage to 8.4%, Wadi Shuaib Dam, 139,000 m3, increasing its storage by 90.6%, and the Al-Wala Dam. 112 thousand cubic meters to increase its storage by 34%, while the remaining amount was distributed over the northern dams, and no quantities were recorded entering the southern dams of Mujib, Tannour, Lajoun and Karak.

 

And she added that the highest rate of rainfall recorded during the past 24 hours was in Irbid 26.2 mm, and regarding precipitation rates, the governorate of Irbid recorded a general average of 12.2 mm, the highest in Irbid 26.2 mm, Umm Qais 23 mm, Al-Baqoura 19.8 mm, Top 17.2 mm, outer 16.9 mm.

 

The Capital Governorate, Amman, averaged 5.5 mm, the highest was Fab Sweileh, 13.2 mm, Jubaiha 9.2 mm, Al Bayader 8.6 mm, Naour 4.4 mm, and Marka 3.7 mm.

Al-Balqa governorate averaged 8.1 mm, the highest in Al-Salt 17.6 mm, Um Joza 12.1 mm, Ayra 10.8 mm, Al-Buqa’a 10.2 mm, Al-Adasiyyah Al-Southiya 3.7 mm, and Al-Kafrin 2.2 mm.

Madaba governorate, with an average rate of 0.8 mm, Al-Mushaqar 2.9 mm, Ma’in 2.1 mm, Hisban 1.7 mm, and Madaba 0.8 mm.

Zarqa governorate 1.9 mm, Al-Alouk 4.9 mm, Rusaifa 2.1 mm, Al-Sukhna 2 mm, Zarqa 1.6 mm, Al-Hallabat 1 mm, Khirbet As-Samra 0.8 mm.

Jerash governorate averaged 8.6 mm, Al-Kutta 13.4 mm, Suf 12.2 mm, Dibbin 11.6 mm, Asfour gap 9 mm, Jerash 8.4 mm, Burma 7.1 mm, Qafqafa 5.1 mm.

Mafraq governorate 0.7 mm, Rehab 2.2 mm, Balama 2.1 mm, Jaber Al-Sarhan 1.8 mm, Mafraq 0.5 mm, Sabha 0.3 mm, Deir al-Kahf 0.2 mm.

Ajloun governorate: 9.5 mm, Ajloun: 14.6 mm, Ashtafina: 10.4 mm, Arjan: 9.5 mm, Anjara: 9 mm, Khirbet al-Wahdneh: 5.4 mm, Ibbin: 3.8 mm.

Al-Karak governorate 0.1 mm, Al-Karak and Jada 0.2 mm, Al-Mazra’i, Al-Qasr and Hammoud 0.1 mm.

In the governorates of Tafila, the city of Tafila recorded only 0.2 mm, in the governorate of Ma'an, only 0.1 mm was recorded in Al-Shobak, and in the governorate of Aqaba, Wadi Musa recorded only 0.1 mm.

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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