Water: The rainfall rate increased to 90%, and the dams entered 1.5 million cubic meters, raising storage to about 118 million cubic meters.

2023-03-20 2023-03-20T09:42:16Z
رنا السيلاوي
رنا السيلاوي
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Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said that the volume of rain falling from the beginning of the season rose to 90% of the general annual rate of 8.1 billion m3 annually, accounting for 113.1% of the total rainfall last year, and that the highest rate of rainfall was recorded during the hours During the past 24 hours, Irbid recorded 35.2 mm during the past 24 hours, noting that the precipitation rate for the same period last year had recorded 72.4% of the general average only.

And she added that the dams had an income of only 1.5 million cubic meters, raising the storage to about 118 million cubic meters, raising the storage in them to 41.9% of their total capacity of 280,759 million cubic meters.

And it indicated that the rainfall rate according to its stations during the past 24 hours was recorded in the Kingdom’s governorates in the capital, Amman, at an average of 17.3 mm, the highest in Bayader, Wadi Al-Seer 30.4 mm, Balqa 18.2 mm, the highest in Salt 32 mm, Madaba 14.2 mm, the highest. 21.6 mm in Al-Jadeeda, 7.4 mm in Zarqa, 20.2 mm in Alouk, 14.9 mm in Jerash, 20.7 mm in Souf, 20.7 mm in Mafraq, 15.8 mm in Balama, 5.2 in Irbid The highest in Irbid is 35.2 mm, Ajloun is 17 mm, the highest is 24.4 mm in Ajloun, Karak is 9.9 mm, the highest is in Jadaa 21.6 mm, Tafilah is 0.6 mm, the highest is 1.8 mm in Tafilah, while Ma’an did not record And the obstacle is any precipitation.

Regarding the ratios of the amount of rainfall from the beginning of the season to the long-term average, Aqaba recorded the highest 252.3% of the long-term average of 26 mm annually, followed by Irbid 108.5% of the average of 406.2 mm, and Maan 149.8% of the average of 40. 8 mm, Zarqa 101.85% of the average 129.4 mm, Amman about 80% (Marca Airport 69.8% of the average 261.1 mm, Jabal Al-Hussein 83.3% of the average 368.8 mm, Wadi Al-Seer 87, 5% of the rate 508.4 mm), Salt 81.9% of the rate 320.8 mm, Madaba 85.5% of the rate 320.8 mm, Karak 56% of the rate 341.4 mm, Tafila 49.2% of the rate The average is 254.2 mm, the rolling pin is 41.2% of the average is 261.3 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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