hot wind
Scorching air current
A hot wind is wind that carries unusually warm or scorching air, often associated with specific weather patterns or geographic conditions.
Desert regions produce hot winds with local names: the sirocco of the Mediterranean, the Santa Ana of Southern California, the harmattan of West Africa.
Hot winds can damage crops, spread wildfires, and create oppressive conditions: The hot wind off the desert made the afternoon unbearable.
- heat waveExtended extreme warmth
- harmattanSaharan wind reaching West Africa
- siroccoScorching African wind
- chinookWarm downslope Rocky wind
- foehnWarm downslope wind
fire weather · scorching · loo · sandstorm · dust devil · mistral · sweltering · blistering · dry heat · haboob · blast furnace · thermal inversion · torrid · breath · desert · parched earth · arid · dry
- desert climatearid, aridity, dry heat, extreme heat, scorching heat
- warm windssirocco, foehn, chinook, harmattan
- windsbreeze, gust, gusts, gale, squall
- Australian Weatherheatwave, bushfire, cyclone, dust storm, drought
- airborne particlesdust particles, dust, particulates, aerosol, particulate matter