Haboob

[N201MKTurbo]

First one I’ve seen this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob

[natdm]

Wrecking my backyard now. 

Ain't even mad, could use the rain that follows.

[Hank]

59 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

First one I’ve seen this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob

Had to look up "haboob". Huh. Our thunderstorms deposit inches of rain and can lower outside temps by 25°F in a half hour or so. Just last week, one passed over the house after I got home from work and reduced visibility to less than a quarter mile. The runoff turned my pond milky brown.

But dust from a dry thunderstorm? That'd be different! Sounds like not-very-fun cleanup afterwards, though. I just wait for things to dry and pick up branches that blew down in the yard. Good luck with it.

[EricJ]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

Had to look up "haboob". Huh. Our thunderstorms deposit inches of rain and can lower outside temps by 25°F in a half hour or so. Just last week, one passed over the house after I got home from work and reduced visibility to less than a quarter mile. The runoff turned my pond milky brown.

But dust from a dry thunderstorm? That'd be different! Sounds like not-very-fun cleanup afterwards, though. I just wait for things to dry and pick up branches that blew down in the yard. Good luck with it.

They usually just make things dirty for a bit, then the self-cleaning happens when the thunderstorm that caused it shows up.   

And they often look more apocalytpic than Rich's pic:

[N201MKTurbo]

When I used to commute to Tucson every day, I had to dodge the storms quite a lot. 

One day I was flying home about 5:00 and the vis kept getting worse and worse. I was thinking if it gets much worse, I’ll have to turn around. Then all of a sudden BAM crystal clear skies! I had flown through one of those things from the back side out the front. It was every bit as gnarly as @EricJ’s picture. I was at 4500 feet and it was surprisingly smooth.

 

[N201MKTurbo]

When I was a kid, we just called them dust storms. Nobody called them Haboobs until after the first gulf war, then for some reason they were haboobs.

We used to ride our bikes no handed holding beach towels as sails to see how fast we could go.

Often times the rain that follows isn’t enough to wash off the dust and just solidifies the dust to your vehicle. We call them mud storms. Good business for the car washes.

[N201MKTurbo]

3 hours ago, EricJ said:

They usually just make things dirty for a bit, then the self-cleaning happens when the thunderstorm that caused it shows up.   

And they often look more apocalytpic than Rich's pic:

That’s the Rural  bridge on Tempe town lake. The picture must have been taken about 15 years ago. That parking lot is long gone. There are high rises there now.

[A64Pilot]

I hate those things with an absolute passion.

One day in the afore mentioned desert we were “sleeping” . Sleeping in parenthesis because you can’t sleep in 125F temps laying in a puddle of your own sweat. In the middle of the day in the tent (Army) with the sides rolled up of course and suddenly the world exploded, Suddenly no vis, strong winds and everything thrown about and everything including us covered in an inch of dirt, as we were wet with sweat it was like concrete dust.

There is no rain in Summer in Southwest Asia, zero rain.

First the desert isn’t sand like the Lawrence of Arabia movies, it’s dirt and rocks, the dirt has a consistency of flour and gets into everything.

Few things in life I absolutely despise, but this is one of those things, and those monster spiders. I’m not a fan of those things either. In fact they can keep the place, I’m never going back  

Edited July 18, 2023 by A64Pilot

[Pinecone]

My first real sand storm was in Sudan.  Not visually impressive, but that fine sand got EVERYWHERE.  I had that fine grit in all sorts of places when I got out of my clothes.

[N201MKTurbo]

Here in AZ it isn't sand, it is just dust. 

The funny thing is the EPA keeps saying our particulate count is too high and we need to do something about it. So, how would you stop one of those?

[natdm]

https://youtu.be/Atzvu5dFEQ4

Short flight flying around the Phoenix area filmed last year. Weather progressed worse than expected, but we got to take a look at a haboob from up on high. Looks a lot smaller from the air.

Edit: just uploaded so HD and 4K are still processing. It was not filmed with a potato.
Edit: yeah rough landing.

[Fly Boomer]

2 hours ago, natdm said:

https://youtu.be/Atzvu5dFEQ4

Short flight flying around the Phoenix area filmed last year. Weather progressed worse than expected, but we got to take a look at a haboob from up on high. Looks a lot smaller from the air.

Edit: just uploaded so HD and 4K are still processing. It was not filmed with a potato.
Edit: yeah rough landing.

How is a potato used in filming?  And what would the outcome have been if you had used a potato?

[natdm]

2 hours ago, Fly Boomer said:

How is a potato used in filming?  And what would the outcome have been if you had used a potato?

Learn all about potato filming here.

[Fly Boomer]