Parks Authority warns hikers to expect flash floods over weekend

8 November 2018, 3:58 pm

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The Nature and Parks Authority issues a warning for hikers headed for mountainous areas of the country over the weekend to expect possible flash floods amid predictions of significant rainfall.

Desert riverbeds are dry most of the year, but occasionally experience powerful and near-instantaneous floods as they carry rainwater from the mountaintop watersheds in the center and south of the country toward the Jordan Valley. The floods can occur in areas that did not experience rainfall, as waters from elsewhere are funneled into the narrow gorges, sometimes surprising unwitting hikers in a deadly torrent.