Wednesday
Jul202011
Another Dust Cloud Moves Through Phoenix
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 7:09AM
A giant wall of dust was rolling through the Phoenix area on Tuesday, turning the sky brown, creating dangerous driving conditions and delaying some airline flights.
The dust storm, also known as a haboob in Arabic and around Arizona, formed in Pinal County and headed northeast for Phoenix.
The dust wall was about 3,000 feet high and created winds of 25 to 30 mph, with gusts of up to 40 mph, said Austin Jamison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “You have suddenly very poor visibilities that come on with all the dense dust in the air,'' he said.
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