Posted on 05/13/2022 10:47:15 AM PDT by blam
Parts of the Northern Plains experienced a rare weather phenomenon on Thursday evening called a “haboob.”
A haboob is a dust storm commonly seen in deserts, though one was spotted sweeping across parts of Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
While the Northern Plains doesn’t have deserts, there’s been plenty of dust following a megadrought that has consumed parts of the Central US.
The National Weather Service tweeted footage of a fast-moving haboob traversing Sioux Falls, South Dakota, transforming the day instantly into the night.
63 mph wind gust here at the office shortly after 4 pm, but many reports of 80+ mph across the region with significant structural damage and trees down!! Please let us know what happened in your area. pic.twitter.com/WlkOg1L2ED
— NWS Sioux Falls (@NWSSiouxFalls) May 13, 2022
Twitter users in Sioux Falls captured insane footage of the dust storm.
This is on the westside of Sioux Falls from our front yard. pic.twitter.com/6HHA35Zm7e
— Jim Clem (@JimRClem) May 12, 2022
@Argus911 Great Shots pic.twitter.com/btbltL0aoQ
— Kevin Tupy (@zwireless) May 12, 2022
Wow! Look at all that dust getting kicked up #SDWX @TylerJRoney #wx @Ginger_Zee Today in Sioux Falls SD https://t.co/sjuHjG2SB3 pic.twitter.com/Eohdse2JUS
— Shawn Hinnant (@Shawnerrific) May 12, 2022
The haboob was also spotted in Little Rock, Iowa. A local news team was trapped in their vehicle with zero visibility as the dust rolled through.
ZERO VISIBILITY haboob in Little Rock, Iowa just minutes ago. Still ongoing as of 5:40 #iawx @NWSSiouxFalls pic.twitter.com/IrD9iNFYfu
— Rebecca Kopelman (@KopelmanWX) May 12, 2022
A weather satellite picked up the haboob sweeping across Nebraska.
A haboob sweeping across Nebraska this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/KefQ6eItiI
— CIRA (@CIRA_CSU) May 12, 2022
The weather event on Thursday in parts of the Northern Plains is super rare and appears similar to dust storms during the ‘Dust Bowl’ era of the 1930s. Farmers in the region are battling either arid conditions or soggy fields, suggesting crop production could be underwhelming this growing season, adding to food inflation pressures for grains.
Posted to FR four days ago:
It's too cold and too wet to plant across the northern Plains
Why does everything seem like it’s turning into the 1930s!
When that wind whipped through E. Arizona on Sunday, I witnessed the first dust storm I’ve seen here in 68 years. Sustained 37 mph and gusts in the 50s, two days in a row.
Haboob. No. Stop it, right now.
We’ve always called it a dust storm in plain English.
We don’t need Muslim words to describe what’s happening in North America.
Besides, it sounds too much like boob.
Haboobs happen in the middle east. In this country they are simply called dust storms.
“Why does everything seem like it’s turning into the 1930s!”
What if, human behaviors were cyclic. There is a season...
Sounds Islamic.
“Besides, it sounds too much like boob”
Are you against all meanings of “boob”?
“Sorry I was late for work boss. I ran into a big haboob.”
“haboob.”
It was a dust storm. A Dust Storm. A DUST STORM.
Dusty Winds
Song by Marty Robbins
Dusty winds, hear them blow
Dusty winds, moanin’ low
Night and day on they go
Those dusty winds
It swept west to east across the desert coming in from the Big Bear Lake area. Tumbleweeds were blowing across the desert floor in front of it. When it hit, everything turned dark for a while.
It was quite something. We spent the next few days cleaning all the dust up.
Is this a haboob or what?
I wonder when Arizona is going to claim the West Half of New Mexico as it’s own because so much of Arizona has blown over there.
I remember the dust storms from Arizona blowing over Farmington and Aztec NM.
It's a Shmita year one way or the other.
I have married friends named Dusty and Sandy Meadows.
In our country it is a DUST STORM, has always been a DUST STORM and will continue to be a DUST STORM.
You want a haboob? Go to where they call them that..
Nice haboobs….
L
“ Why does everything seem like it’s turning into the 1930s!”
Because President Retard and the regressives are doing everything they can to return us to the Stone Age 🤪
Rare Haboob Rips Through Northern Plains
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Call the EPA! These habooby critters must be saved for the children!!
This is the USA, we are not a Arabic speaking muscleman country yet.
Its Sand Storm for crying out loud!
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