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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 ...
A massive haboob struck in Western Australia's Pilbara near the town of Onslow Saturday, and witnesses rushed to social media to post the orange, mountainous clouds formed by the dust storm.
Residents in the Phoenix area saw intense storms over the weekend. Starting on Friday, a massive dust storm known as a "haboob" swept the area. It reached 3,000 feet tall and knocked out power of ...
A dust storm is an unusual form of windstorm that is characterized by the existence of large quantities of sand and dust particles carried by the wind. [46] Dust storms frequently develop during periods of droughts, or over arid and semi-arid regions.
Original – A dust storm (or simoom) approaching Phoenix, Arizona in 2011. Reason Majestic shot of a weather event (its usage on the Phoenix, AZ page describes it as a simoom; the file name just calls it a dust storm) over a populated area. The one notable flaw I see is that the white section of sky on the right-hand side of the storm is fully ...
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.
Haboob in Big Spring, Texas. 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.
gilliu00/Flickr An apocalyptically massive dust storm rolled over Phoenix on Wednesday, blocking out the sun, grounding flights and coating the city in a layer of grit. Phoenix Sky Harbor airport ...