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the sky deciding it's had enough and swallowing the horizon whole
means A duststorm is a wall of wind-driven dust and sand that blots out visibility, common in dry, loose-soiled regions.
from A plain compound of "dust" and "storm." "Dust" comes from Old English "dūst," tied to a Germanic root for things that fly apart or scatter into fine particles. "Storm" is also Old English, "storm," a violent disturbance of the air, with cousins across the Germanic languages. Bolt the two together and you get exactly what it says: a storm made of dust — a self-explaining word that needed no cleverness to earn its name.
- haboob
- Arabic-named walls of dust tower up to a mile high
- mars regular
- dust storms there can engulf the entire planet
- dust bowl
- 1930s storms buried farms and darkened distant cities
- fertilizer flight
- Saharan dust feeds the Amazon rainforest yearly
- speed demon
- some race forward at 60 miles per hour
haboob of 2011 — phoenix, arizona dust storm on may 5, 2011 that reached 5,000 feet high and caused 6 deaths
black blizzard of 1935 — dust bowl storm on april 14, 1935 that darkened skies across great plains and reached new york city
baghdad dust storm 2009 — june 2009 iraq dust storm that reduced visibility to 10 meters and killed dozens