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Dust cloud covers Phoenix for third time this summer
A massive dust storm rolled through Phoenix on Thursday, the third such storm to blanket its metropolitan area this summer.
The cloud of dust was 50 to 60 miles wide and 3,000 to 4,000 feet high, National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Leins in Phoenix said.
The dust reduced visibility to under a quarter-mile, was likely to blame for several traffic accidents and closed Sky Harbor International Airport for 40 minutes, according to a report in The Arizona Republic. More than 5,000 people lost electrical power at some point, and a few dozen structures and vehicles were damaged, the paper said.
Leins said the massive dust cloud, also known by the Arabic term haboob, was driven by 40-mph to 50-mph winds spawned by severe thunderstorms that form to the southeast of the Valley of the Sun, where Phoenix sits.
The storms push out winds that travel unimpeded through the desert, picking up dust, dirt and debris and carrying it over the valley, Leins said. Damage in these situations is caused by thunderstorms rather than the dust cloud, he said.
Thursday's dust cloud was the third to rip through the Valley of the Sun this year. Haboobs also enveloped Phoenix on July 5 and 18.
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Get a life bible thumper, Jesus is a fairy tale.
If Jesus is a fairy tale, then Mohammed is a just a fairy.
It is the hand of God reaching down for Sarah Palin who now lives in Scottsdale AZ.
You mean to say, a 50-mile wide alien spacecraft was over the city and used a dust cloud to hide itself. Right? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED! Fortunately, my tinfoil hat is keeping me safe.
No, but these dust storms ARE being generated by the Illuminati. but being reduced in severity by the GFL, which in fact DO have not only 50 mile wide ships, but 100.. even 1000+ mile diameter ships.
So its kinda all connected.
Did you watch the best-TV-show-ever-that-just-ogt-cancelled, "The Event"? The portal has been activated. They are coming. Forget Mt. Inostranka.........They're heeeeerrrreee !!!!
don't worry! It's just a myth, an urban legend, like global warming!
Dust is all around us. The dust in Phoenix must a sight to see. While others see dust,I see the beauty of nature.
I agree! It is incredible watching them roll in. They are hardly destructive, and it shows the massive power of wind and rain, to kick up that amount of dust. Plus we get the best sunsets afterwards.
shannon, how long does it take for one to go through?
Why is an Arabic term used in this article? This is America, it is called a fing dust cloud.
Are you still asking for freedom fries?
Do you know what the prophet Muhammed would have to say to your blasphemy American Pig???
What do you call a burrito? How about chow mein? Pizza? Linguini? What about those really big waves – oh yeah, tsunami.
I don't suppose you use numbers either. They are Arabic. Relax, America didn't invent absolutely everything.
@Richard – Ok I'll just call you DIck. Speak English. Numbers are named in English. The Arabs only learned to count so they could keep track of their 72 virgins.
– I think the fact that so many of our military have seen these while deployed has given the term haboob its main stream OK.
My son sent me a pix of the first one he seen in 05 while in Iraq. Living in FL he had no idea what it was. He asked a local and the local says haboob – my son emails me later and says it was a haboob... he had a word for the strange dust storm he had just hunkered down through.
These are not the typical run of the mill dust storms either by the way, I think the term haboob sets it apart from the norm and adds scope to the event. I've been through several "dust storms" in my day, but never anything like this.
BTW – the English language is full of "barrowed" words from other cultures. This isn't the first, get over it!
@f- "Numbers are named" LOL!
Kind of beautiful isn't it.
Immotep make big dust devils...
Yea and while you see "beautiful nature" I see two weeks worth of house cleaning!!! These big storms are a hassle! I live in the middle of this crud and it's no fun cleaning dust out of everything for two weeks after one of these blows through.
Oh well, ggod thing Global Warming is just a theory or this might be something to be concerned about over time .... (wink wink nod nod and all of that).
you know cause 100 years ago there were no such thing as dust storms.. global warming is a myth weather patterns are always changing... wake up already.
I think that the hand of God is reaching down from the heavens for Sarah Palin who now lives in Scottsdale AZ.
What are the people of Phoenix hiding in that dust cloud?
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aliens.... it's aliens..
Dust bowl 2012 here we come.... That's what happens when you have a monolithic crop (corn, soy) and you eventually deplete the soil without a more diverse crop rotation.... different crops bring different nutrients back into the soil. We've only had this monolithic crop system since about the mid 70's (remember when things had real sugar and not sugar processed from corn?). So its just a matter of time.
The 'Dust Bowl" ?? Is that right after the Super Bowl ?? OOOH, can I get tickets ???
Hey jacka$$ read a little bit of American history and get back to me on your asinine comment...
Does the cloud itself generate enough electrical activity to cause lightning, similar to that generated by volcano eruptions? Seems to me a normal thunderstorm w/ rain would remove a lot of the dust from the air.
we don't get too much rain though... only a small part of the city got any rain last night, i know where i'm at in central phoenix we didn't get any just dirt ðŸ™
going from my car to the house in this i was crunching dirt between my teeth...
I don't think the dust cloud itself causes lightning, but it is formed by a thunderstorm close behind it that is kicking up the dust. There is usually thunder and lightning FOLLOWING a dust storm due to that thunderstorm. Here in North Phoenix we got quite a bit of rain, but as per Phoenix weather, it only lasted about 20 minutes.