02.02.2012                      09.Schwat. 5772

Wetter:

Record rains hit North, but Kinneret still low

Lake remains 11 cm. below "bottom red line" despite significant increase.

While the country’s North was swamped with rains this January – one of the rainiest in recent years – Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) still sits a hefty 11 centimeters below the basin’s bottom red line.
“It was quite a rainy January, especially in the North – we got more rain in the North than in the average year,” said Water Authority spokesman Uri Schor….