I got an ‘A’ on my student paper, so it must have been halfway decent. You can read all about the dust storm that hit Iraq last year during Operation Iraqi Freedom at:

Sandstorm Over Baghdad: The Dust Storm that Stalled the Coalition Invasion of Iraq

Now that I’ve posted my report on the web, I can’t understand why it looks to be less work than it really was! The paper is mostly about meteorology, but there are lots of pretty weather pictures and some satellite views of the Persian Gulf region.

And you might learn something new. Did you know that the Marines used captured AK-47s during the storm, since M16 rifles are more vulnerable to grit? I didn’t.