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  1. www.encyclopedia.com › weather-and-climate-terms-and-concepts › siroccoSirocco | Encyclopedia.com

    May 11, 2018 · views 3,129,653 updated May 11 2018. si·roc·co / səˈräkō / (also sci·roc·co / shəˈräkō; sə- / ) • n. (pl. -cos) a hot wind, often dusty or rainy, blowing from North Africa across the Mediterranean to southern Europe. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English.

  2. Location: Mediterranean Sea and coasts. The term Sirocco (sometimes also spelled Scirocco) is an all-inclusive name given to hot and subsequently humid southeast to southwest winds originating as hot, dry desert-air over Northern Africa, flowing northward into the southern Mediterranean basin.

  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0044040Sirocco (1951) - IMDb

    Sirocco: Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. With Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane. A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.

  4. www.encyclopedia.com › earth-and-environment › ecology-and-environmentalismScirocco | Encyclopedia.com

    May 29, 2018 · views 2,104,495 updated May 29 2018. scirocco (sirocco) A regional name for one of the types of warm winds from the south which occur around the Mediterranean. It moves ahead of an eastward-travelling depression and brings hot, dry, dusty conditions to Algeria and the Levant.

  5. Location: Mediterranean Sea and coasts. The term Sirocco (sometimes also spelled Scirocco) is an all-inclusive name given to hot and subsequently humid southeast to southwest winds originating as hot, dry desert-air over Northern Africa, flowing northward into the southern Mediterranean basin.

  6. SIROCCO definition: 1. a hot wind that blows from the Sahara Desert to southern Europe 2. a hot wind that blows from…. Learn more.

  7. Description. The term Sirocco is an all-inclusive name given to southeast to southwest winds originating as hot, dry desert-air over Northern Africa that can become hot and subsequently humid while flowing northward into the southern Mediterranean basin.

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