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File: aacbp_01.txtSUBJECT: CENTAF WEATHER STAFF WEATHER OFFICER BULLETIN #45 J0AF 302 U N C L A S ATTENTION: THE TFU HAS A NEW PHONE, [(b)(2)] ,UNSECURE). PLEASE ROUTE ALL MESSAGE TRAFFIC DESTINED FOR THE TFU TO RHIUFZA/CENTAF WEATHER. THANK YOU. SWO BULLETIN 45 FOXX31 XXXX 220000 KING JOAF #302 VALID: 22/00002 TO 23/0000Z JAN 91 1. {U) PART A: SYNOPTIC SITUATION: THE LAWC FROM 12Z CHOWS A VERY DIFFUSE SYNOPTIC PATTERN. A STG HIGH PRESSURE (> 1036MB) RIDGES IN FROM SRN EUROPE TO OVR GREECE. TROFING XTNDS W FROM THE LOW {1015MB) AT 327N/29E. A QUASI-STNRY FRONT LIES E FROM THE LOW OVR SRN TURKEY TO A WAVE AT 37N/41E AND AGAIN STNRY TO THE SRN CASPIAN SEA WHERE DUE TO SPARCE DATA THIS BNDRY DEFINITION IS LOST. TROFING ALSO XTNDS SERLY FROM THE MED LOW TO OVR JORDAN. A LOW (1015 MB) IS AT 26N/41E W/ TROFING S TO RED SEA TROF AND E TO THE FILLING LOW AT 27N/53E. HIGH PRESS DOMINATES S OF CON. THE UPPER AIR PATTERN SHOWS THE LONG WV TROF FROM THE NRN CASPIAN SEA TO A 500 MB CLSD LOW E OF GREECE TO THE ERN IBERIAN PENINSULA. THE PFJ IS WKLY REPRESENTED ZONALLY ACROSS THE SRN MED AND THEN JOINS FORCES W/ THE STJ OVR THE RED SEA WHERE THE SHARED ENERGY AREA TURNS ENE OVR THE AOR. ADVECTION IS WK IN THIS WEAKENING FLOW ALOFT. THE SINGLE DETECTED SHRT TV WAS ANALYZED IN THE NCNTRL AOR WHICH KICKED OFF SOME TSTMS W/ PASSAGE. THE RIDGE AXIS STILL LIES OVR IRAN BUT HAS WEAKENED AND BROADENED IN THE PAST 12 HRS. FOR THIS 1ST PERIOD1 W/ THE ABSENCE OF SHRT WVS AND NOTICEABLE ADVECTION ALOFT, OR DIVERGENCE THE ACAS/CICS WILL SUBSIDE IN THE NRN AOR. THE FRNT IN TURKEY WILL DRIFT S ACROSS NRN SYRIA AND XTRM NRN IRAQ BRINGING IN ACAS CIGS AND RASH. THE RED SEA TROF WIL ALSO DRIFT S AND OVR CNTRL SA AS THE RED SEA CONVERGENCE ZONE SHIFTS S. HIGH PRESS STRENGTHENS IN FROM THE WNW AND SE. 2. (U) PART B: SEA SURFACE DATA VT: 22/12Z POINT 1 POINT 2 POINT 3 26N/52E) (22N/64E) (l8N/40E) TEMP (C) 26 25 27 WAVE DIR 030 030 130 PERIOD SEC 4 . 4 4 HEIGHT FT 3 3 4 3. (U) PART C: METSAT DISCUSSION: THE DMSP THERMAL SHOT FROM 19Z CONTINUES TO SHOW A DECREASE IN THE MID TO UPPER LVL CLDS ALONG THE STJ IN THE NRN AOR. THE SHRT WVS THAT WERE OVR AFRICA CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE ALONG THE STJ BUT ARE WEAKENING AND THERE IS LITTLE MOISTURE NOW ASSOC W/ IT NOW. A SHRT WV IS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE NRN ARABIAN GULF AND IS PRODUCING ISOLD TSTMS MT 350 IN IRAN. A BEN SC DECK WAS EVIDENT ALONG NERN SA AND KUWAIT ALONG THE FOLLOWING POINTS: 29N/49E' 27N/48E, 27N/44E, 29N/42E. FOG/ST CAN BE SEEN ALONG NERN SAUDI THE XTNT UNKN' BUT VERIFIED BY OBS IN THAT AREA. BEN SC/CU STILL PERSISTS IN THE ERN MED ASSOC W/ THE LOW AND TROF. SCT TO BKN PATCHES OF AC CONTINUE TO .
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