{"id":131877,"date":"2026-05-26T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:12:06","slug":"clear-skies-for-eid-wednesday-before-dust-wave-sweeps-central-and-western-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131877\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear skies for Eid Wednesday before dust wave sweeps central and western Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 Iraq will see mostly clear skies with scattered cloud on Tuesday and through Eid on Wednesday, before a medium-intensity dust wave moves across central and western areas on Friday, the General Authority for Meteorology said.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday will bring chances of light rain in the far north, with northwesterly winds of 20\u201330 km\/h raising light dust in desert areas and temporarily reducing visibility to 5\u20137 km before improving in the evening. Temperatures will rise slightly in central and southern regions.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s Eid forecast is generally clear with some cloud and light to moderate northwesterly winds, with temperatures rising by several degrees in central and southern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday will be partly cloudy in central and northern regions and mostly clear in the south, with winds shifting to light to moderate southeasterlies and temperatures continuing to rise nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Friday will bring a return of northwesterly winds generating a medium-intensity dust wave, densest in western Iraq and parts of central areas. Temperatures will drop by several degrees in central and southern regions and a few degrees in the north, with visibility potentially falling to 2\u20134 km in the worst-affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is expected to stabilize with mostly clear skies, temperatures rising slightly in central Iraq and remaining steady in the north and south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAGHDAD \u2014 Iraq will see mostly clear skies with scattered cloud on Tuesday and through Eid on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[5788,592,6266,5979,15843,38477,94,36397,596,3892],"class_list":["post-131877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-will","tag-and","tag-areas","tag-central","tag-clear","tag-dust","tag-iraq","tag-temperatures","tag-the","tag-with"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116641526185233244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}