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Encyclopedia Britannica



SIROCCO

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 157 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SIROCCO , a name applied to two quite distinct types of local wind. The first type is the characteristic wind of the winter
rainy
  season in the Mediterranean region, and is associated with the eastern side of local depression or cyclones, in which the weather is moist, cloudy and
rainy
 , the prevailing directions being
south
  and
south
 -
east
 . The second type is the intensely dry dust-laden wind of the
desert
  which receives this name in
Sicily
  and southern
Italy
  especially, where the general direction is south-
east
  or south-west. Local winds of this latter type receive a
great
  variety of names in different parts of the Mediterranean and surrounding regions (see
LEVECHE
 , LESTE,
KHAMSIN
 ,
SIMOOM
 ).


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