July 12, 2004 5:23 p.m.

 Excessive humidity has lately overwhelmed the shores of
northeastern Arabia and southern Iran. Using dew point as a measure
of humidity, it has been most extreme on the Musandam Peninsula,
which is shared between Oman and the UAE. Al Fujayrah, UAE, has
observed 90-degree dew points most of the time since Saturday
including an unbroken stretch of nearly 24 hours as of Monday
afternoon, local time. Highest dew point was 93 degrees at a
temperature of 95. This made for 94% relative humidity and an
apparent temperature of 136 degrees! Along the Mideast Gulf, dew
points have reached the mid 80s in such spots as Bahrain, Qatar, the
area of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and the full length of Iran's coast.

 Xingtai, in China's North China Plain, picked up 7.1 inches of
rain within twelve hours.

 Siberian heat wave! The last few days have seen 90-degree heat
spread over a swathe of eastern Siberian Russia. Zeya, in the
district of Amur, Monday topped out 101 degrees, or 22 degrees above
average.

 Heavy summer rains washed the Pacific shores of Canada Sunday
night and early Monday. On McInnes Island, BC, rainfall was 3.3
inches, mostly over night.

 Heavy rains splashed much of Korea Sunday and Monday. In North
Korea, 24-hour rainfall was 5.2 inches at Kaesong. In the South,
rainfall within the same stretch of time was 4.7 inches at Chunchon,
and 4.6 inches at Sokcho.

The middle of July marks the hottest time of the year in Iraq,
when much the nation bakes with temperatures well over 100 degrees
and unrelenting sunshine. No current weather observations are
available, but climatological records show that mid-July has high
temperatures averaging near 111 degrees and average low temperatures
near 78 degrees. This is even hotter than the average at Palm
Springs, California, which tops out at 109, and nearly as hot as
Death Valley, where average highs top out at 116. While Death Valley
is essentially unpopulated, the Baghdad metropolitan area is home to
nearly four million people. United States troops in the area have
reported temperatures as high as 126 degrees, in the shade.

 A new tropical depression came to life over the eastern North
Pacific Ocean off southwestern Mexico Monday. Late Monday afternoon,
EDT, this depression holds highest sustained winds of 35 mph. Centered
295 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and 315 miles southeast of
Isla Socorro, Mexico, the depression is moving towards the northwest
at 13 mph. Forecasts call for this cyclone to strengthen on a
northwestward heading during the next 24 hours during which time it
will pass very near Isla Socorro and the other Revillagigedo Islands.

 A storm brought windswept and soaking rains to portions of central
Chile Monday. At Concepcion, rainfall that began on Sunday was whipped
around by wind gusts surpassing 50 mph on Monday. By midafternoon
Monday, rainfall was more than 2.2 inches. Observations from Valdivia,
meantime, showed 4.0 inches of rain within only six hours Monday.

            
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