siroccos

In spring and summer, hot dry winds called siroccos blow across Italy from North Africa.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

desert winds come and tear down the tents. the winds are called "siroccos".

the siroccos of the hyperreal 2007

desert winds come and tear down the tents. the winds are called "siroccos".

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

They beat back siroccos with plastic girders and treated the straggling refugees like madmen that had lost their minds in the heat, as if the refugee, like an octopus, had seen the rippling mirage of the ocean in the distance and chased after it.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

They beat back siroccos with plastic girders and treated the straggling refugees like madmen that had lost their minds in the heat, as if the refugee, like an octopus, had seen the rippling mirage of the ocean in the distance and chased after it.

Abandoned Prose 2009

Instead I get siroccos out of Lantaster and Palmdale.

Tidbits Dr. Lisa 2007

J M McDermott: the siroccos of the hyperreal skip to main

the siroccos of the hyperreal 2007

I must remark, also, that the house was well warmed and ventilated, without the aid of alternating siroccos and north winds.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

No evidence of little green extremophile chaps jogging through the dusty siroccos or any fossilized microbes--though to be fair, they'd probably be a little harder to spot.

Schmidt's Google Launches Mars Mapping Tool 2006

They could hear those freed siroccos and emancipated mistrals blustering and raging overhead, but they did not blow down into the olivine depression to roil the serene waters.

A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000