Watch: “Wall Of Dust” Blankets Phoenix Amid Megadrought Conditions

Zubu Brothers ^ | 7-28-2021

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Wall Of Dust Blankets Phoenix During Busy Monsoon Season

[kaktuskid]

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

[IYAS9YAS]

It’s a haboob, and Phoenix gets them. We do to in Albuquerque. It’s not unique or even strange for the desert southwest.

[Nateman]

It’s the desert. It happens all the time, Fun to watch even.

[gr8eman]

Made me think of Wall of Voodoo. Anyway, Phoenix looks like Dubai. So what? It’s the desert.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“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.

[Nateman]

My bad

[ChuckHam]

Imagine that. Dust storms in the desert.

[gr8eman]

Haboob?...sounds like something Xho Bhi Den would say

[AZJeep]

we got more rain in last few days than in the last year.
That stuff gets outdates very quickly. Now there are floodings.

[fidelis]

It’s the desert. It happens all the time, Fun to watch even.

Yes indeed, but not so much fun to drive in. Like a thick fog, but with wind and debris.

[fidelis]

Haboob?...sounds like something Xho Bhi Den would say.

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.

[Nateman]

I’ve even drove thru a mud storm. Dust plus rain coating the car with mud.

[TexasM1A]

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.

[Az Joe]

Twas only a summer breeze

[Who is John Galt?]

It’s all due to Republicans denying that sex is a construct and racism.

Come on, man! Get with the program! You're supposed to capitalize that, and add exclamation points; for example:

RACISM!!!

[SamAdams76]

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.

[Mr Rogers]

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!

[ckilmer]

But why would a dust storm happen right after monsoon rains?

One would think that the ground would be at least damp.

Guess not.

[Turbo Pig]

It’s a haboob, and Phoenix gets them.

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.