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 Posted: Wed Jul 6th, 2011 03:09 am
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This monster dust storm hit the Phoenix, Arizona metro area Tuesday evening. It was reported to be 60 miles wide and 3,000 feet high. It hit where I live around dusk and the cars on the street are now covered in mud and dirt. Picture below is from local news.


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 Posted: Wed Jul 6th, 2011 08:54 am
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That is wild. Saw that on the news last night. I bet that is rather freaky to see it comming right for you.

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 Posted: Wed Jul 6th, 2011 08:58 am
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Go full screen.

http://youtu.be/8W4Cx44XKZ4

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Pretty wild....glad I wasn't there...whichone.gif

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I got slammed by this dust storm yesterday on the way home on my Harley, it was F'N EVIL w/ a mind of it's own....

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At 11:00 am today, dust has coated everything in the neighborhood. Cars, streets, sidewalks, trees, everything. And, there is still so much dust in the air I can't see the mountains or the city in the distance.

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Gee I wonder why all these super storms are happening?

 

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That looks nasty, Mike. Stay safe!

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Understood on the storms. happy1.gif

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It remember me this reportage about historic facts I saw a while ago. Long sand-storms invading some regions of the US many years ago and drying out all life, killing people and animals years after years.
They finally understood that intensive deforestation and bush cutting for massive agriculture had builded up this phenomenon...
Then they planted bush lines at regular spaces to retain the earth. It worked ofcourse...

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Hammerfjord wrote: It remember me this reportage about historic facts I saw a while ago. Long sand-storms invading some regions of the US many years ago and drying out all life, killing people and animals years after years.
They finally understood that intensive deforestation and bush cutting for massive agriculture had builded up this phenomenon...
Then they planted bush lines at regular spaces to retain the earth. It worked ofcourse...

The dust bowl was in the plain states (Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc) in the middle of the US.

Southern Arizona is basically a desert with summer temps as high as 120+ (F) degrees. It was 118 F here just last week. It is dry right now and massive fires have been burning in parts of Arizona and neighboring New Mexico for the past month or so.

It is now the "rainy or monsoon" season here. If the right conditions exist when it rains, the rain water can evaporate before it hits the ground which cools the air and it can generate strong winds (microbursts in some cases). When it all comes together just right we get a dust storm.

There is no shortage of dust in Arizona. Average yearly rainfall here is about 6-7 inches.

Visit:  http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2011/07/08/more-on-the-haboob-dust-storm-that-covered-phoenix/

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Saw in the news another big one hit. Crazy!

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Yes, indeed Skip. Our second monster in July.

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