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.
my thoughts exactly! dust storm is what we’ve called them - for a LONG time!
I like Dolly Parton’s Haboobs.
Haboob?? From the inventors of’Kyiv’?
I’ve been known to send a haboob ripping after eating a bean burrito; I just didn’t know the proper term for it.
Because it is.
If you liked the 1930s, you'll love the 2020s. And the 2030s? oh my...
“Ha Boobs” are what trannys put in their shirt.
That’s funny. I once knew a woman by the last name of Greene who married a Meadows.
Timelapse Shows 10 Years of Haboob Dust Storms Across Arizona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkDBmsGIG7U&t=80s
I live in the Albuquerque metro, they want to claim it, go ahead. I'll join AZ in a heartbeat.
Oh noooooo…more climate change…quick, make gasoline $10/gallon…
Media has also started using the word tremblor for earthquake.
They are trying to sound smart with their inclusive language. It’s BS.
And what’s up with calling every lunar eclipse “A Blood Moon”. It makes it sound like a cheap Conan knockoff: “The Jaguar tribes will ravage the land of the Wizard king upon the rising of The Blood Moon”.
Yeah, rez dust is amazing. Thanks for posting.
Really enjoyed looking at your bio page; you’re old school and hip at the same time. We have the same birth year, too. So which high school did you go to? Farmington? Aztec?
You have a point. No need to confuse a dust storm with the boobs in DC.
I was at the Greyhound Park on 44th when one came in.
It was wild.
Got trapped in more than one of those in the 80’s and 90’s.
Desert between Gila Bend, Maricopa, or Chandler.
Thanks for sharing.
What? Was Biden travelling?
Because we have another handicapped President.🙄
I did not go to high school in Farmington or Aztec. I went to Aztec in the 4th grade 1956 and McCormick school in the 5th grade.
Lived there again in 1973-1977.
I also went to Kirtland schools for a short time in 1956. You know how it is when working for a gas company, one school after another.
Worst school lunches I ever ate was at the Aztec schools in 1956. Kids were throwing it back up on their plates. I finally talked mom into letting me take a sack lunch. Farmington and Kirtland lunches were great.
Went to the third grade at the main elementary school in Farmington. Only half a day as there were so many families with kids in town then.
Saw many a movie at the ALLAN Theater down town.
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