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A massive dust storm moves across the Sonoran Desert near Interstate 8, Arizona, on August 16. This video, which captured the impressive haboob, was filmed by professional storm chaser John Sirlin.
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
Dust storms can carry large amounts of dust, with the leading edge being composed of a wall of thick dust as much as 1.6 km (5,200 ft) high. Dust and sand storms which come off the Sahara Desert are locally known as a simoom or simoon (sîmūm, sîmūn).
A dust storm blew through an American football game in Arizona on Thursday, 31 August, causing Arizona State-Southern Utah to pause. Strong winds blew dust into the stadium, causing visibility ...
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A dust storm enveloped the town of Mesa, Arizona, on August 17, as the local weather service warned residents of “near-zero visibility” during the hazardous driving conditions.Jessica Kirsh ...
A dust devil seen in Amboseli National Park, Kenya in 1993. A dust devil (also known regionally as a dirt devil) is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind. Its size ranges from small (18 in/half a metre wide and a few yards/metres tall) to large (more than 30 ft/10 m wide and more than half a mile/1 km tall).
The storms also spawned destructive mudslides — more than 500 in the city of LA alone, where at least 16 buildings have been deemed uninhabitable and 33 others have been yellow-tagged, meaning ...