Amman: Recent rainfall channeled 6 million cubic meters (mcm) in 24 hours into the Kingdom’s dams, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation said in a statement on Tuesday.
This year’s wet season witnessed more rainfall as of Tuesday than the correspondent period of 2021, going up to 2.823 billion cubic meters (bcm), or 34.4 percent, of Jordan’s long-term annual average rainfall of 8.1bcm, compared to 16.1 percent of the long-term annual average recorded in the same period of 2021.
About 2.7 mcm were mainly poured into the Tannur Dam in Tafilah, 758,000 cubic meters into the Mujib Dam in Karak, and 1.295 mcm into the King Talal Dam in Jerash, raising the total amount in Jordan’s dams to 43.5 mcm (15.5 percent) of their full capacity of 280.760 mcm, compared to 38 mcm (13.8 percent) recorded in the same period last year, added the statement.
The total rainfall across the Kingdom amounted to about 1.147 bcm during the past 24 hours, with 741 mcm falling on the Ma’an Governorate, followed by 109 mcm on Amman, 87 mcm on Aqaba, 54 mcm on Mafraq, 44 mcm on Tafilah, and 40 mcm on Karak.
The highest precipitation rate, the statement noted, was recorded in the Shoubak municipality at 45.4 millimeters (mm).
On the governorate level, the precipitation rate in Tafileh stood at 21.1mm, followed by Karak with 18.5mm, Balqa with 16mm, Madaba with 14.8mm, Amman with 14.6mm, Aqaba with 12.5mm, Jerash with 7.3mm, Irbid with 4.9mm, Zarqa with 4.8mm, and Mafraq with 3.6mm.
Source: Jordan News Agency