Posted on 07/28/2021 7:41:03 AM PDT by blam
On Tuesday evening, massive walls of dust rolled through the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, promoting the Arizona Department of Transportation to warn drivers to stay off roads as visibility was heavily impacted.
Just before 7:30 pm local time, the National Weather Service in Phoenix said the dust cloud was blowing into the Phoenix area and would impair visibility.
Local news Fox 10 captured the massive dust storm rolling through the metro area.
WATCH: A dust storm made its way over #Phoenix tonight. Did you see it!? pic.twitter.com/RmJooCfzfG
— FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) July 28, 2021
A time-lapse of the Phoenix dust storm shows visibility was impacted.
TIME LAPSE: Dust storm in Downtown #Phoenix #12News pic.twitter.com/vtaI80SNm1
— Daniel Méndez (@MendezDAZ) July 28, 2021
Here’s another view of the “wall of dust.”
Huge wall of dust heading towards Phoenix this afternoon! 🌬 #azwx #haboob #arizona @abc15 @azfamily @12News @FOX10Phoenix @weatherchannel @NWSPhoenix pic.twitter.com/YaHAMryImD
— Joe🏜 (@JoeAZ97) July 28, 2021
The latest data from the US Drought Monitor shows much of Arizona is in some form of a drought.
As for the drought situation in the western half of the country, it’s severe and alarming, and lands are transforming into fallow wastelands.
You do know that Arizona has had too much rain the past week enough for flood warnings statewide. And that dust storms are a common occurrence this time of year
It’s a haboob, and Phoenix gets them. We do to in Albuquerque. It’s not unique or even strange for the desert southwest.
It’s the desert. It happens all the time, Fun to watch even.
Made me think of Wall of Voodoo. Anyway, Phoenix looks like Dubai. So what? It’s the desert.
“It happens all the time”
Nah, this is the first time in the history of the world it has happened. It’s all due to Republicans denying that sex is a construct and racism.
My bad
Imagine that. Dust storms in the desert.
Haboob?...sounds like something Xho Bhi Den would say
we got more rain in last few days than in the last year.
That stuff gets outdates very quickly. Now there are floodings.
Yes indeed, but not so much fun to drive in. Like a thick fog, but with wind and debris.
It's a recently appropriated Arab word. It was never called that around here and I never call it that. This is Arizona, not Arabia. It's a dust storm.
I’ve even drove thru a mud storm. Dust plus rain coating the car with mud.
Scary damned things, especially when you are not used to seeing anything like that.
Was with a friend driving from Long Beach to Phoenix in 96 I think, He saw it on the horizon and drove about 100 yards off the road until it passed us by.
Crazy thing to experience.
Twas only a summer breeze
Come on, man! Get with the program! You're supposed to capitalize that, and add exclamation points; for example:
RACISM!!!
In the early 1980s, I was stationed at 29 Palms in the Mojave Desert. From time to time, I would see these “Walls of Dust” approach from Bear Mountain, tumbleweeds and all. It was always an awesome sight.
It has happened in Phoenix for as long as I’ve lived in Arizona...50 years. Nothing special. And after a month of very regular rain, I’m HOPING for a few dry days!
But why would a dust storm happen right after monsoon rains?
One would think that the ground would be at least damp.
Guess not.
I've got a photo somewhere in my collection of two of them coming to together from north and south just east of MCAS Yuma. I took it back in 1988/89 from the forth story of one of the barracks on the air station. Very cool picture; probably one of the best I ever took.
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