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A haboob [1] (Arabic: هَبوب, romanized: habūb, lit. 'blasting/drifting') is a type of intense dust storm carried by the wind of a weather front . Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout the world.
A large dust storm, or haboob, sweeps across downtown Phoenix Saturday afternoon, July 21, 2012. Dust storms are common across Arizona during the summer, and walls of dust more than a mile high ...
Haboob, a sandstorm's fast moving wind which causes cold temperature over the area from where it passes. It mainly passes through Sudan. It mainly passes through Sudan. Harmattan , a dry wind that blows from the northeast, bringing dust from the Sahara south toward the Gulf of Guinea.
A combination of weather conditions had parts of the Evergreen State looking more like the Sahara on Tuesday. This massive dust storm -- also known as a haboob, as many outlets eagerly pointed out ...
Name Date Affected regions Black Sunday: April 14, 1935, during the Dust Bowl: Texas Panhandle to the Oklahoma Panhandle, United States [note 1] Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977: December 19-21, 1977 Southern San Joaquin Valley, California: 1983 Melbourne dust storm: February 8, 1983 Victoria, Australia: 1991 Interstate 5 dust storm ...
A storm chaser filmed the moment he sped away from an approaching dust storm in Tahoka, Texas, on Monday, August 29.Marcus Diaz filmed the monstrous haboob sweeping over farmland in Tahoka, as a ...
On May 19, 2003, a dust devil lifted the roof off a two-story building in Lebanon, Maine, causing it to collapse and kill a man inside. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] On June 18, 2008, a woman near Casper, Wyoming was killed when a dust devil caused a small scorer's shed at a youth baseball field to flip on top of her.
Another name used for this wind is samiel (Turkish samyeli from Arabic sāmm سامّ meaning poisonous and Turkish yel meaning wind [1]). An alternative type occurring in the region of Central Asia is known as "Garmsil" (гармсель). The name means "poison wind" and is given because the sudden onset of simoom may also cause heat stroke.