The word "sirocco" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun typically referring to a hot, dry, dust-laden wind that blows from Africa to the Mediterranean. For example, "The sirocco had been blowing for days, drying up the puddles in the town square."
HAD the sirocco (the south wind that brings Venice its worst floods) not unexpectedly dropped and shifted direction on December 1st, it would have been much worse.
Hot, dry southeasterly winds known locally as the sirocco, ghibli (gibleh), or khamsin frequently blow into the Mediterranean basin from the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula as low-pressure centres traverse the sea in late winter and early spring.
In southern Dalmatia, where the sirocco winds (known there as the jugo) bring a moderating influence from Africa, summers are sunny, warm, and dry, and winters are rainy.
Spring and autumn bring clear, bright light, especially when winds are northerly, giving relief from the exhausting heat of the southerly sirocco.
The sirocco, a hot, very humid, and oppressive wind, blows frequently from Africa and the Middle East.
Occasionally the warmer sirocco (shilok) winds are drawn in from the south.
The sirocco is produced on the east sides of low-pressure centres that travel eastward over the southern Mediterranean.
The Saracen influence remains strongest in the Mafia-dominated west of Sicily, where the sirocco blows hot from Tunisia.
The main winds prevailing in the area are the bora, a strong northeast wind that blows from the nearby mountains into the sea, and a southeasterly wind named the sirocco that is less troublesome from a navigational point of view.
In Sardinia conditions are more turbulent on the western side, and the island suffers from the cold mistral blowing from the northwest and also from the sirocco blowing from the southwest.
During the six winter months, bora and sirocco alternate, with or without an interval of a few days calm.
