An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.
In general, any hot dry wind of cyclonic origin, blowing from arid or heated regions, including the desert wind of Southern California, the harmattan of the west coasts of Africa, the hot winds of Kansas and Texas, the kamsin of Egypt, the leste of the Madeira Islands, and the leveche of Spain.
(southerly from North Africa to southern Europe)
a desert wind, not exactly suitable for a ship -- but it's also a fast wind, so maybe it makes sense
a hot blistering desert sand storm that can destroy all in it's path as it passes by
a hot, dry, dust-laden wind that blows from the Sahara Desert north or northwest across North Africa
an east wind, from Arabic
A warm wind of the Mediterranean area, either a foehn or a hot southerly wind in advance of a low pressure area moving from the Sahara or Arabian deserts. Called LEVECHE in Spain.
A hot dusty south or southeast wind blowing across the Sahara desert in advance of a depression moving eastward across the southern Mediterranean Sea or North Africa. Italy, Malta, and Sicily are the countries primarily effected.
(Also spelled scirocco.) A warm south or southeast wind in advance of a depression moving eastward across the southern Mediterranean Sea or North Africa. The air comes from the Sahara (as a desert wind) and is dry and dusty, but the term is not used in North Africa, where it is called chom (hot) or arifi (thirsty). In crossing the Mediterranean the sirocco picks up much moisture because of its high temperature, and reaches Malta, Sicily, and southern Italy as a very enervating, hot, humid wind. As it travels northward, it causes fog and rain. In some parts of the Mediterranean region the word may be used for any warm southerly wind, often of foehn type. In the extreme southwest of Greece a warm foehn crossing the coastal mountains is named sirocco di levante. There are a number of local variants of the spelling such as xaroco (Portuguese), jaloque or xaloque (Spanish), xaloc or xaloch (Catalonian). In the Rhône delta the warm rainy southeast sirocco is called eissero. On Zakynthos Island it is called lampaditsa. See solano, ghibli, chili, simoom, leveche, marin.
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