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Asian Dust (황사)
Asian Dust (황사, hwangsa; also yellow dust or yellow sand) is a seasonal phenomenon in which westerly winds carry desert soil from Asia over China, Korea, and Japan each spring.
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also called the Dirty Thirties, was a 1930s period of drought and dust storms on the Great Plains that drove farming families to migrate.
Harmattan
The Harmattan, also called the doctor, is a dry, dust-bearing northeasterly wind over West Africa from late November to mid-March, carrying Saharan dust toward the Gulf of Guinea.
Loo (लू) (wind)
The Loo (लू) is a strong, hot, dry, dusty westerly summer wind across the northern plains of India and Pakistan, blowing in May and June before the monsoon.
Simoom
Simoom (Arabic: سموم, samūm, "poison wind"), also spelled simoon or samoom, is a hot, dry, dust-laden desert wind of the Sahara, the Levant, and Arabia, briefly reaching 54 °C.