Sirocco

Sirocco is a warm, dry, and dusty local wind that blows in a northerly direction from the Sahara Desert and after crossing over the Mediterranean sea reaches Europe. Sirocco becomes very strong and active at test cyclonic origin time of the origin of cyclonic storms over the Mediterranean sea. It becomes extremely warm and dry while descending through the northern slopes of the Atlas mountain.
There are different local names for sirocco in Africa. e.g. Khamsin in Egypt, gibli in Libya, chilli in Tunisia, etc. The warm and dry dusty winds in the Arabian Desert are called ‘Simmon's. Sirocco, while passing over the Mediterranean Sea picks up moisture and yields rainfall in the southern part of Italy where the sands with falling rains associated with sirocco are called ‘blood rain’ because of the fallout of red sands with falling rains.
It may be remembered that sirocco while blowing through the Sahara desert picks up red sands which settle down with rains in south Italy. It is apparent that sirocco is very much injurious to agricultural and fruit crops.