What is "chergui"

n. (alternative form of sharqi English)

Chergui is the largest of the Kerkennah Islands off the north coast of Tunisia. The name means "Easterner" in Arabic. The main town is Remla. The island has an area of 110 km. The second largest island of the group, Gharbi, means "Westerner" in Arabic.

Category:Islands of Tunisia Category:Mediterranean islands

Chergui or sharqi (Arabic : šarqīa ) is the name of a continental easterly or southeasterly wind which blows on the southernmost part of Morocco, a hot and dry wind coming from the Sahara Desert. This wind can be compared with the sirocco, a very hot and very dry desert wind. The Arabic word means "coming from the east", as the chergui emanates from the desert east of the Atlas Mountains. This is a rain shadow 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 Atlantic ocean, 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.

Chergui or Sharqi comes from the arabic šarqīa and means "the east".

• Chergui, an island to the east of mainland Tunisia and part of the Kerkennah islands
• Chergui (wind), a hot, dry wind in Morocco coming from the Sahara and hence the east