6/15/2023 0 Comments Habboon![]() The storm approached perfectly perpendicular to the freeway … it did not feel/look/taste very good from within that cloud of dust! Glad I didn’t wait it out … would have been breathing that for at least an hour. The wind gusts blew my sunglasses off on my motorcycle ride home with about 20 miles to go … I pulled over and eventually went slowly enough to exit and found my way to buy more eye protection from the first gas station I could get to. What’s it like to encounter a haboob? The image below was caught by Ryan Behnke during a powerful season for dust storms in and around Arizona in 2012. #haboob #duststorm #azwx Photos: /cpJdNfkL2W Dust seems to consume the air, making visibility low.Ĭheck out these aerial photos of a massive dust storm crossing Phoenix, AZ. Haboobs can create problems for travelers, as well as respiratory problems for those caught in them. Haboobs are intense sand-and-dust storms, carried on winds blowing in summertime in desert regions of the world. ![]() ![]() Monster haboob that tracked across southern Arizona on July 10, 2018, via veteran storm-chaser Reed Timmer.
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