Kinneret drops by half a centimeter, 1.11 meters from upper red line

• Date: 29 December 2020
• Published date: 29 December 2020
• Author: TZVI JOFFRE

The lake is now 1.11 meters below the upper red line threshold, which marks 208.8 meters below sea level.

The Israel Hydrological Service announced in May that the country had, for the first time in 30 years, experienced its second straight year of above-average rainfall with 24% more rainfall recorded.

The Kinneret rose by 3.01 meters in the last rainy season earlier this year, reaching its highest level since 2004, as high as 208.89 meters below sea level, just 9 cm below the upper red line.

The 2018-2019 rainy season was also marked by higher than average amounts of rainfall with 33% more rainfall recorded. The Kinneret rose by 3.47 meters last year. The last time two years were recorded with rainfall at this high a level above average was from 1986-1988.

The Water Authority decided to open a canal to divert five billion liters of water from the Kinneret to the southern Jordan River in April, with the goal of bypassing the Degania Dam in order to avoid...