DESERT STORM WEATHER 17 JANUARY-2 MARCH 1991

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	afternoon and evening thundershowers over the extreme southeast
              Intermittent drizzle fell in the cool air moving west away from the
              northern Persian Gulf

              Winds  were northwestely to northerly over the Baghdad area,
              becoming northeasterly over the southern Tigris-Euphrates  river
              valley.  Over Kuwait and extreme southern Iraq, winds were
              northeasterly to eastely. Speeds diminished from  10-15 knots in
              the morning to 5-10 knots by mid-evening.
  
             Visibilities  in southern and southwestern Iraq and in extreme
             northeastern Saudi Arabia were near zero in fog during the night,
              but as high as 2,000 Meters in southern Iraq and Kuwait during
             mid-afternoon.  After dark, they dropped rapids to less than 500
             meters. Visibilities in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley, nothwest of
             the low clouds, improved 10 km by late morning. Patchy dense
             river fog formed after 2100Z, dropping visibilities to less than 500
             meters.

               High temperatures were 7-10 C in  the north and 18 C in the
               south. There were freezing temperatures In Iraq and northern
               Saudia  Arabia, and subfreezing temperatures above 6,OOO feet in the
               mountains of southeastern Turkey and northeastern Iraq. Central
               Saudi Arabian lows were 5-12� C.




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