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Statistics of the current rainy season may reveal some secrets about the nature of climate change
2023-05-03
The Planning and Databases Department at the Upper Euphrates Basin Developing Centre released the statistics of the rainy season 2022/2023, which lasted from October 2022 to April 2023.
Statistics showed that the number of rainy days at the centre station within the campus of the University of Anbar in the city of Ramadi amounted to 19 days, distributed by 3 days in November, two days in December and April, 7 days in January and 5 days in March, while no rain was recorded in both October and February.
As for Haditha station, the number of rainy days reached 24, distributed by two days in the months of October, November and February, 4 days in December, 6 days in January, 7 days in March and one day in April.
In the Rutba station, the number of rainy days reached 13 days, distributed by two days in each of October and the second, one day in each of the months of December and April, 3 days in January and 4 days in March. January witnessed the rainiest days in Ramadi station, while in Haditha and Rutba, March was the most rainy days.
As for the amounts of rain exceeding 7 mm, which indicate the possibility of floods, the Ramadi station was the most by 5 days, while it was recorded in both Haditha and Rutba 3 days.
By reviewing the data record, the average rainy days for this season are within the average for the years before the year 2000, which indicates the beginning of the impact of what is known as climate change, but for the wet station, the number of rainy days is less than the average, especially since the data records indicate an average of rainy days more than 20 days, for example, in 1986, 21 days were recorded, in 1992, 28 days were recorded, including 8 days in January, in 1993 also 28 days, and in 1994, 24 days were recorded.
There is also a difference in that most of the rainy days were in January and March for the Ramadi and Haditha stations, which is the same pattern since 1923. While the Rutba station will be rainy days with high rainy intensity rates in the months of November, December, March, April and May, to be in the current season in December and March.
As for the amounts of rainfall, they were lower than their annual rates in both Haditha and Rutba stations, where they recorded 67.8 mm and 97 mm, respectively, while Ramadi station recorded the highest annual rainfall in 100 years, reaching 262.8 mm, where records indicate 222.1 mm in 1926 and 204.7 mm in 1982. At the level of the three stations, the amount of rain recorded at the Ramadi station is the third highest recorded in the history of meteorological records after the modern station recorded 274.1 in 1974 and the Rutba station which recorded 263.8 in 1988.
This indicates new readings of the concept of climate change that will be discussed in detail in subsequent reports to be issued soon.
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