[IP] more on -- Hero Sandwiches

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:46:40 +0100
> From: M Taylor <mctaylor@privacy.nb.ca>
> Subject: Re: [IP] -- more on -- Hero Sandwiches
> To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
>
>
> [for IP if you wish -mct]
>
> > >>>Iraq is, in fact, so hot that official
> > >>>meteorological data has been blocked from the media by the Department of
> > >>>Defense, presumably so that Americans won't know that our troops are the
>
>
> > >What is this then?
> > >
> > >http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/IZXX0008
> > >
> > >--
> > >Rob Carlson  rob@vees.net  http://vees.net/
>
> The current conditions (observation) is "as reported at Ilam, Iran" which
> last I checked is not Baghdad, Iraq.
>
> The forecast is likely an automated dump from a global model (a
> computer simulation), low resolution, with no correction based on actually
> observations.
>
> As far as I know, Iraq was not active member of WMO (wmo.ch) since the
> 1980s, and did not share weather observations. I suspect their poor
> telecom infrastructure is preventing the post-Saddam Iraq from distributing
> current obs, which civilian Iraqi meteorologists at the Baghdad International
> Airport have resumed in late May or June.
>
> NOAA has a details summary of the climate of Iraq, which explains the
> brutal temperatures of Iraq. Yes, it does get hot there.
> <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/afghan/iraqnarrative.html>
>
> What appears to be the best (specialised) weather data for Iraq available
> to the public (if others have a better source I would be interested) is
> from the US Air Force Weather Agency
> <https://afweather.afwa.af.mil/met/swa_home.html>.
>
> --
> M Taylor
> http://www.mctaylor.com/

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