Jordan - Special Bulletin | The rainy situation in the Kingdom so far and the weather forecast for the coming days | 12-17-2022

Weather of Arabia - The quadrature of winter enters on the twenty-second of December, which coincides with the astronomical winter solstice and the start of the winter season in the northern hemisphere, so that the quadrature usually constitutes 30% of the total rainy season at the level of the Kingdom. And meteorological data indicate that the current rainfall performance, to date, suffers from a shortage in the amounts of rain that are supposed to fall for this time of the year in most regions, with the exception of the southeastern regions.

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The results of the analysis of the same data indicate that the areas in which dams are concentrated in Jordan (north and center of the Kingdom) suffer as a whole from weakness in rain performance, except for Jerash and Madaba. And the capital and Tafila ranged between 59-66%, while the rain performance decreased significantly in Karak, recording very modest values of 26%. Similarly, the southeastern regions witness a distinguished rainy season, for example Ma’an station exceeded 70% of the full seasonal average (what was achieved of the actual amount of rain falling in this rainy season with the full annual rainy average, which ends in May), i.e. In other words, more than two-thirds of the average rainfall has fallen from the amount of rain that falls in the same area over a period of more than five months.