Ministry of Water and Irrigation: Rainfalls raise the rainy season to 55% and the dams to 115.5 million cubic meters

Written By طقس العرب on 2024/01/28

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.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">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, Sunday 1/28/2024, to 55.3% of the long-term annual rate of about 8.1 billion cubic meters annually. .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> 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 twenty-four hours, as of Sunday morning, amounted to 4.5 million cubic meters, raising the total storage in the dams. The main storage capacity reached 115.5 million cubic metres, with a total storage rate of 40% of its storage capacity of 288,128 million cubic metres, and the highest amount of precipitation recorded in Amman/Khan Al-Zubaib within 24 hours amounted to 15.8 mm.</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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