Climate
Mostly desert
Mild to cool winters
Dry, hot, cloudless summers
northernmost regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows
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The weather is dry and rainfall is low and unreliable, except in the northeast. Iraq experiences a wide range of temperatures.
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The south has a desert climate, with hot, dry summers and mild winters.
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The summers are also dry in the north, but in mountainous Iranian and Turkish border regions winters can be harsh, with frost and heavy falls of snow.
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Sudden hot spells are a unique feature of winter in the center and north of the country.
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