Arizona
Related: About this forumAn acquaintance captured this dust storm traveling from Phoenix to Tucson
Friday, September 2, 2022
calimary
(81,523 posts)rsdsharp
(9,208 posts)Tumbulu
(6,292 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
(10,008 posts)is "haboob" but too many people won't use the word because it's Arabic.
Kali
(55,025 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
(11,087 posts)Haboob I started hearing in the late 90s.
Bristlecone
(10,135 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
(6,206 posts)Your post states what I was going to share.
Ptah
(33,044 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
(18,641 posts)Ptah
(33,044 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 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
(33,044 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I can't help myself. Sometimes I believe I have OCD about simple things like that. I wish I didn't. Really.
Ptah
(33,044 posts)You got me. What can I say? 😉
Kali
(55,025 posts)murielm99
(30,773 posts)Thanks for posting.