sirocco

A hot humid south or southeast wind of southern Italy, Sicily, and the Mediterranean islands, originating in the Sahara Desert as a dry dusty wind but becoming moist as it passes over the Mediterranean.

A hot or warm southerly wind, especially one moving toward a low barometric pressure center.

The Italian name for a southeast wind.

A name for a special drying apparatus using a heated blast of air derived from a fan, and blowing over the material to be dried, as fruit, or tea-leaves.

A trade-name for a form of fan-blower.

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.

A hot southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.

A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.

a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand