desert winds
Saharan air currents
Desert winds are hot, dry winds that blow from or across arid regions, often carrying sand and dust.
Named varieties include the sirocco of North Africa, the harmattan of West Africa, and the Santa Ana of Southern California.
These winds can raise temperatures dramatically, parch vegetation, and spread wildfires: The desert winds turned the hillside into a tinderbox.
- harmattanSaharan wind reaching West Africa
- siroccoScorching African wind
- Santa AnaDry California wind
- haboobIntense wind-driven sand wall
- dust stormsWindblown particulate weather events
sand storm · dust devil · sand dunes · shifting sands · trade winds · saltation · foehn · adobe architecture · chinook · ghibli · tumbleweeds · caravan route · Lawrence of Arabia · hot · wasteland · bone dry · mirage · howling
- desert climatearid, aridity, dry heat, extreme heat, scorching heat
- wind effectstornadoes, hurricanes, sand storms, dust storms, blizzards
- windsbreeze, gust, gusts, gale, squall
- soundscapessoundscape, soundscapes, ambient noise, nature sounds, ambient sound
- airborne particlesdust particles, dust, particulates, aerosol, particulate matter