simoom

If you happen to be in Africa and stuck in a “hot, dry, suffocating sand-wind” which sweeps across the deserts at intervals during the spring, you should know that you are in a simoom.

From Time ● Mar. 20, 2014

The breath that from it issues Parches my palate; like the hot simoom, It scorches, though it sweep as stilly o'er Some blasted, bladeless desert!—

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

Her sire, who, upon his trackless wilds, could have outstripped the pestilent simoom; and with throat unslaked, and hunger unappeased, could thrice have seen the scorching sun go down, had not greater powers of endurance.

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

He's the oasis in the desert of my life; but the counting-room simoom comes along and dries him up, every now and then.

From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells