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  2. Dust storm - Wikipedia

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    A dust storm, also called a sandstorm, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. [1] Dust storms arise when a gust front or other strong wind blows loose sand and dirt from a dry surface. Fine particles are transported by saltation and suspension, a process that moves soil from one place and deposits it in another.

  3. Storm glass - Wikipedia

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    FitzRoy carefully documented his claims on how the storm glass would predict the weather: [3] [failed verification] A catalogue of storm glasses c. 1863. If the liquid in the glass is clear, the weather will be bright and clear. If the liquid is cloudy, the weather will be cloudy as well, perhaps with precipitation.

  4. Calima (Saharan sand) - Wikipedia

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    Calima, photo by a satellite. Calima or Kalima is a term used to describe a meteorological phenomenon that occurs when fine sand and dust particles from the Sahara are lifted into the atmosphere and transported by prevailing winds.

  5. List of dust storms - Wikipedia

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    2021 East Asia sandstorm: March 2021 Mongolia, China and South Korea: 2022 Iraq dust storms: Iraq: 2023 East Asia sandstorm: April 2023 China, Japan, South Korea and ...

  6. Woman finds WWII-era message in a bottle while cleaning up ...

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    Inside the bottle, Flament-Smith found all sorts of contents: a few shells, a bullet casing, a "mini cannonball," and sand; but, the biggest surprise was the note inside, she told WTSP.

  7. Fulgurite - Wikipedia

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    When ordinary negative polarity cloud-ground lightning discharges into a grounding substrate, greater than 100 million volts (100 MV) of potential difference may be bridged. [2] Such current may propagate into silica -rich quartzose sand, mixed soil, clay , or other sediments, rapidly vaporizing and melting resistant materials within such a ...

  8. Trinitite - Wikipedia

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    The color of the glass is a pale bottle green, and the material is extremely vesicular with the size of the bubbles ranging to nearly the full thickness of the specimen." [ 3 ] The most common form of trinitite is green fragments of 1–3 cm thick, smooth on one side and rough on the other; this is the trinitite that cooled after landing still ...

  9. Haboob - Wikipedia

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    During thunderstorm formation, winds move in a direction opposite to the storm's travel, and they move from all directions into the thunderstorm. When the storm collapses and begins to release precipitation, wind directions reverse, gusting outward from the storm and generally gusting the strongest in the direction of the storm's travel.