Jordan | Ministry of Water and Irrigation: Rainfalls raise the rainy season to 70.5% and the dams to 138.5 million cubic meters

2024-03-19 2024-03-19T08:42:15Z

Arabia Weather - Ministry of Water and Irrigation : Rainfalls raise the rainy season to 70.5% and the dams to 138.5 million cubic metres.

The Ministry of Water and Irrigation - Jordan Valley Authority said that the long-term annual rate of rainfall rose as of this morning, Tuesday 3/19/2024, to 70.5% of the long-term annual rate of about 8.1 billion cubic meters annually, noting that The percentage of rainfall compared to the long-term annual average on the same date last year was 85.5% , and the amounts of water from rain that entered the dams during the past twenty-four hours amounted as of this morning to about 2.5 million cubic meters, raising the total storage in the main dams to 138.5 million cubic meters, with a total storage rate of 48% of its storage capacity of 288,128 million cubic metres. The highest amount of precipitation recorded in Al-Qasr / Karak within 24 hours amounted to 46 mm, and the rainfall during the past 24 hours included most regions of the Kingdom.