Posted on 07/06/2011 7:59:34 AM PDT by Sprite518
hese amazing pictures from the United States show a wall of dust moving through the city of Phoenix in Arizona. Sandstorms like this happen during the region's monsoon season, which is underway. They occur over desert land and can reach thousands of feet into the air, spurred by strong winds. The dense cloud dramatically reduced visibility, grounding flights at a major airport and leaving thousands without electricity.
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Looks like Spring on the South Plains.
C’mon man, get enlightened and call it by the arabic word “Haboob” like the media is doing now.
My son drove through one of these storms last night down in the area of I-10 from Pinal Air Park to south of Marana. It got to the point where visibility was less than 10 feet in any direction; he couldn’t see to pull off the highway safely.
He said that he saw tumbleweeds and small Palo Verde trees blowing through the air. That area is mostly farmland or desert. so there’s lots of debris and dirt to blow around.
Oh noes! We’re all gonna die!
LOL! Using the word enlighten and media in the same sentence is an oxymoron. LOL!
Couldn’t see 10 feet across my backyard in Tempe. Everything including the pool is now covered in dust. Newsman on local TV says he’s lived here 29 years and never saw it so bad. What a mess
I decided long ago to stop watching Television, for the safety of my television.
I had to investigate this. You’re right ! They are calling it by an arabic term !
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
Spring Time in Lubbock.
Well the word might come in handy to describe the hot air media Haboobs.
I guess one could expect such things, building a city out in the middle of a desert and all...
Amazing sight though.
Zoinks!
That’s just a nice gentle reminder that we live in a desert.
You’ll feel better after you get some rain!
Last night in every news report I watched, this (dust or sand) storm was referenced by an Arabic name. No, it’s just a dust or sand storm. It’s not taking place in the Middle-East and it should be referenced by our tradition name for it.
This attempt to turn everything in the U. S. into something that goes by a name from foreign nations or regions is idiotic.
The storm took place because of “monsoonal” flows of moisture. Monsoonal? We have monsoons of Mexico? Since when?
We have a flow of humidity coming up from Mexico. We do not have a monsoon coming up from Mexico.
When did they start referencing this as a monsoon air flow?
I don’t remember that from my youth. Did I miss it, or is this as it seems, just one more idiotic attempt to strip our terms for things and force feed us a foreign term for them?
Maybe this has always been referred to as a monsoonal air-flow and I never heard of it until recently.
My perception of monsoon is a storm in the South Pacific. Did we suddenly move or something?
Here’s the internet dictionary definition.
–noun
1.
the seasonal wind of the Indian ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
2.
(in India and nearby lands) the season during which the southwest monsoon blows, commonly marked by heavy rains; rainy season.
3.
any wind that changes directions with the seasons.
That number three is a new one for me. Why is a term used to describe South Pacific or Indian Ocean weather patterns now a term that we should be using in the Northern Hemisphere on the other side of the planet?
Can we please stop this renaming of everything routine.
This is the United States. We have a rich language base of our own. We don’t need to rename our weather patterns using terms from the other side of the planet.
The *real* reason Alice is out on tour all summer.
Yeah, I want to go back to naming hurricanes only after names that your aunt might have.
Haboob. origin of term, Usage: Dust storm forced Hakim inside the tent, so he decided to haboob with a member of his harem.
Gotta be God’s punishment...
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