harmattan

How To Use harmattan In A Sentence

• After leaving the city and its suburbs and crossing the point of the cape to Simon Town, where is located the naval station and a more secure anchorage, one passes over deserts of sand over which a wind called the "harmattan" blows with great force and fury, obliging one to veil the face to protect the eyes from the refraction of the sun's rays as well as the sand. Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",
• The harmattan, which is caused by shifting weather patterns, derives its name from the word for 'tears your breath apart' in the West African language Twi... Harmattan Has Arrived
• Am I the only one that had to look up the definition of “harmattan”? Seasons and Chickens « Cameroon
• The pestilential winds of the east are described by various authors under various denominations; as harmattan, samiel, samium, syrocca, kamsin, seravansum. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
• It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
• The downpour wipes away the layer of dust plastered on everything by the dry harmattan winds that blown down from the parched Sahel during the peak of the dry season. Seasons and Chickens « Cameroon
• The south end of the range experiences the southwesterly monsoon from the ocean and the north end dry northeasterly harmattan winds from the desert. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
• The Harmattan, the seasonal desert wind, blew constantly, a sharp chill keeping us in long trousers and jerseys even by day.
• Rainfall records are spotty, but other worrisome developments - changes in flora and the more frequent appearance of harmattan dust - point to a serious decline in moisture levels.
• But now the thunderstorm scrubs the air clear of any lingering harmattan grime leaving a sparkling blue sky with white puffy clouds and an astonishingly green and vibrant landscape whose existence I had almost forgotten about under the dust. Seasons and Chickens « Cameroon