khamseen

The "khamseen," a south wind, hot as the blast of a furnace, bringing with it clouds of dust and flying sand darkening the sun, and making a fog in which we could not see half across the parade ground, smote us at irregular intervals in April and May.

The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

Arrived in Cairo around five this afternoon and was greeted by a very dusty dusk, caused (we're told) by the khamseen wind, as our convoy makes it to the hotel through rush hour traffic.

Katie Couric: Middle East Trip: Day One 2009

Arrived in Cairo around five this afternoon and was greeted by a very dusty dusk, caused (we\'re told) by the khamseen wind, as our convoy makes it to the hotel through rush hour traffic.

Katie Couric: Middle East Trip: Day One 2009

We're talking about putting a black tablecloth on your head in 120 degree weather, clenching it in place with your teeth so that a khamseen hot wind doesn't blow it off, and, of course, putting on black gloves, too, so no one can see your hands.

Asifa Quraishi: “Western feminists have lost opportunities to work with - rather than against - Islam and Muslim women." Ann Althouse 2008

I ought to reproach myself, but I don't, for not having written of the aggravating southern gale with its accompaniment of drifts of horrid dust and sand as the "terrible khamseen" or sirocco.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

The sand is continually silting, and a khamseen may alter the whole surface of the land, yet to the eye it remains substantially the same.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett