Arizona
Related: About this forumAn acquaintance captured this dust storm traveling from Phoenix to Tucson
Friday, September 2, 2022
calimary
(83,754 posts)rsdsharp
(9,978 posts)Tumbulu
(6,429 posts)That first one should be printed and framed, it is fascinating and beautiful. Kind of like a moon made of dust descending.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,738 posts)is "haboob" but too many people won't use the word because it's Arabic.
Kali
(55,600 posts)monsoons were always called summer storms too.
I think people do call them haboobs more now - someone gave me a bumper sticker that says Arizona girls have big haboobs.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,443 posts)Haboob I started hearing in the late 90s.
Bristlecone
(10,415 posts)In both places and in between. Was always a dust storm. Haboob came much later. When social media became a thing.
Although the word Haboob, I think, is some old Middle Eastern dust storm word
ChazII
(6,311 posts)Your post states what I was going to share.
Ptah
(33,426 posts)I'm in Tempe right now came up last Thursday the 25th. saw one on the way up and got a picture too, but it wasn't anywhere as good as that one. and of course I don't have access to my photo account until I get home, tomorrow.
why does traffic always jam up at Riggs Road/Queen Creek???? I haven't been back to Tempe in the last ten years when EVERY single time, no matter day, or time that there isn't a huge slow down. and there is never any obvious reason, never a wreck or anything visible to explain it. after you get going again traffic moves faster at rush hour in town. WTF?
Kablooie
(18,718 posts)Ptah
(33,426 posts)SergeStorms
(19,270 posts)I they had captured the dust storn you'd never see or hear from them again.
I'm just a stickler for proper sentence composition. No offense intended.
Ptah
(33,426 posts)SergeStorms
(19,270 posts)I can't help myself. Sometimes I believe I have OCD about simple things like that. I wish I didn't. Really.
Ptah
(33,426 posts)You got me. What can I say? 😉
Kali
(55,600 posts)murielm99
(31,329 posts)Thanks for posting.