Ministry of Water and Irrigation: Rainfalls raise the rainy season to 74% and the dams to 140.5 million cubic meters

<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, Wednesday 3/20/2024, to 74% of the long-term annual rate of about 8.1 billion cubic meters annually.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></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 90%, and that the amounts of water from rain that entered the dams during the past 24 hours amounted as of this morning to about 2 million cubic meters, raising the total storage in the main dams to 140, 5 million cubic meters, with a total storage rate of 48.7% of its storage capacity of 288,128 million cubic metres.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The highest amount of precipitation recorded in Madaba within 24 hours amounted to 27 mm, and the rainfall during the past 24 hours included most regions of the Kingdom.</p>