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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