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132: 153: 118: 70:, which brings soaring temperatures typical of the desert, often over 40 °C (104 °F) and can even turn around 48 °C (118.4 °F) during the day at summertime and the relative humidity is extremely low, nearly always below 15%. The chergui can also more rarely blow at wintertime, and is responsible of a warm, sunny and dry weather. 66:
wind as it falls down after passing over the top of the mountain range as a very hot and dry air into the coastal plains area towards the
194: 218: 54:, a very hot and very dry desert wind. The Arabic word means "coming from the east", as the chergui emanates from the 223: 91: 42:) is the name of a continental easterly or southeasterly wind which blows on the southernmost part of 187: 107: 8: 233: 168: 180: 86: 213: 123: 131: 59: 28: 164: 137: 67: 228: 207: 47: 152: 63: 51: 43: 55: 160: 113: 36: 110:
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