| The savanna lands of the northern regions face harmattan winds for four months each year. |
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| It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan. |
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| In winter and spring, when they are strongest, they are known as the harmattan. |
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| In the dry season the harmattan, a hot, dry wind, blows from the northeast from December to March. |
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| The extension of the harmattan means that even if it rains, the rains will be short. |
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| The result is that pupils know more about the Seine than the Niger, or about the mistral than the harmattan. |
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| In the north, the rainy season is from July to November, and a harmattan wind blows down from the Sahara between December and February. |
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| And it was not too hot either, because the cold and dry harmattan wind was blowing down from the north. |
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| The dry season is also the period of the harmattan, a dust-laden wind that reduces visibility for days at a time. |
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| During the harmattan, a cool, dusty wind from the Sahara grays the skies. |
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| In winter the drying harmattan wind blows from the interior. |
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| The harmattan, which is also called sharqi in Morocco, is a hot wind that blows out of the interior of the Sahara. |
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| The climate in the dry season from November to April is influenced by the harmattan, the desert wind from the north-east, which brings warm, dry air from the Sahara. |
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| The dry season, which lasts from November to June, is marked by low humidity and high temperatures and is influenced by the alize and harmattan winds. |
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| The dust-laden harmattan winds bring, in their wake, excessive aridity and parchedness of the soil. |
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| That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. |
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| The Harmattan, the seasonal desert wind, blew constantly, a sharp chill keeping us in long trousers and jerseys even by day. |
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