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In North America, the most common terms for these events are either dust storm or sandstorm. In the U.S., they frequently occur in the deserts of Arizona, including around the cities of Yuma and Phoenix; [7] [8] in New Mexico, including Albuquerque; eastern California; and Texas. [9]
Dust storms arise when a gust front or other strong wind blows loose dirt, sand, and/or small rocks from a dry surface into the atmosphere, drastically reducing visibility. Though the term is sometimes restricted to storms occurring over normally arable land suffering from drought, it is also used interchangeably with sandstorm and haboob.
Cyclones. Extratropical cyclone. European windstorms; Australian East Coast Low "Medicane", Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones Polar cyclone; Tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, typhoon, or just "cyclone"
The Met Office has revealed the storm names for the 2024/25 season. The new storms list – first launched in 2015 – for each year generally runs from early September until late August the ...
Since 1953, tropical storms that originate in the Atlantic Ocean have been identified by name. There are six lists of 21 names each, and the lists are rotated so that the 2024 list of names will ...
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 ...
Sandstorm (vehicle), a robotic vehicle developed by Carnegie Mellon for the DARPA Grand Challenge race; Sandstorm (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers toyline; Sandstorm (Dungeons & Dragons), a 3.5 edition Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook; Sand Storm, a 1992 action game; SANDstorm hash, a cryptographic hash function
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is predicted to be one of the most active on record, with AccuWeather experts forecasting 16 to 20 named storms in 2024. With so many storms likely this year, a ...