Garmsil

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Garmsil’

 

(Tadjik, garmsel), a dry, hot wind of the foehn type in the foothills of Kopetdag and the Zapadnyi Tien-Shan. In the summer it blows from the south and the southeast and is destructive to agricultural vegetation.

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