Samum is a poisonous wind that brings with it destruction and chaos. T

Samum is a poisonous wind that brings with it destruction and chaos. There are many reasons to beware of it:. the wind raises clouds of sand and dust, and there are frequent cases of severe thunderstorms;. air temperature can reach 50 degrees Celsius;. relative humidity drops to zero percent;. the storm can rage for up to three days in a row.. Up to 40 sumums can take place in the Sahara in a year. Indeed, such winds destroyed entire caravans. There are facts that claim that in 1805 the simoom covered two thousand people and as many as one thousand eight hundred camels with dust and sand.