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the leading edge ot the frontal clouds had moved near An Najaf
in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley--the trailing edge was go miles
nosh of Baghdad. Figure 3-8, a visual satellite image taken at
103~, sham these lard Clouds ~L
Isolated moderate to heat rain showers fell In central Iraq along
and within 100 miles either side of the southeastward-moving cold
Font. Patchy light drizzle fell in northeastern Saudi Arabia before
1500Z.
Winds were eastern at 5-7 knots before dawn, becoming
southeasterly at 5-10 knots by late morning in extreme southern
 t              Iraq and northeastern Saudi Arabs. By 1700Z, wads had veered
to southerly at 1o-15 knots. In central Iraq, winds were light and
           ~.   variable until 1 200Z, becoming southerly at 10-20 knots after
 <              1500Z

Visibilties over northeastern Saudi Arabia and the Tigris-Euphrates
river valley dipped  as low as 200 meters in the early morning,
but by 0800z they had improved to 8-10 km in haze. High
temperatures ranged Mom 18-20( C under layered clouds to 30-
32( C under clear skies central Iraq ahead of the advancing
frontal cloud layers. Lows were 4-6( C except along the immediate
Saudi Arabian Persian Gulf Coast and under the early morning low
clouds in northeastern Saudi Arabia, where they were 10-13 C(.


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