khamsin
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Jerusalem has up to 150 days of khamsin a year, during which time temperatures soar above 90� while the relative humidity plummets toward zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
The khamsin is a baleful wind that flares out of the deserts, drying out the land and the people until the flesh fairly crackles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shaky cease-fire shifted attention back to Lebanon's complicated political situation, which was about as impenetrable as the khamsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moving up out of the desert each spring and fall, the khamsin is an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alexandria on our return was dimmed in the heat and choking in the sand clouds of a khamsin.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.
