During the Harmattan Season?

The harmattan season is a period during which the North-easterly Sahara trade winds rush in a desert-storm-like manner into countries of West-Africa, leaving cracked lips, skin cracked and makes breathing difficult while everything is covered in dust.

What happens in harmattan season?

The Harmattan brings desert-like weather conditions: it lowers the humidity, dissipates cloud cover, prevents rainfall formation and sometimes creates big clouds of dust which can result in dust storms or sandstorms. The wind can increase fire risk and cause severe crop damage.

How do you use harmattan in a sentence?

A hot wind, like the harmattan of the Guinea coast, rose and drove the sand before it in clouds. The harmattan, a very dry east wind from the African continent, occasionally makes itself felt. The dry east wind known as the harmattan blows intermittently from December to March.