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a wall of desert that walks, swallowing cities and daylight in one apocalyptic shrug
means A haboob is an intense, towering dust or sand storm driven by the outflow winds of a collapsing thunderstorm, often arriving as a dense rolling wall that blots out the sky.
from From Arabic habūb (هبوب), meaning 'blowing' or 'blasting wind,' from the root h-b-b 'to blow.' The word entered English through observations of these storms in Sudan, especially around Khartoum, and was later borrowed wholesale to describe similar dust walls in deserts elsewhere, including the American Southwest.
- name origin
- From Arabic habb, meaning to blow or drift
- size
- Walls can tower 100 kilometers wide
- speed
- Advances at up to 60 mph
- phoenix regular
- Arizona gets several every monsoon season
- aftermath
- Dumps dust that grinds engines and lungs alike
phoenix haboob 2011 — massive dust storm that struck phoenix, arizona on july 5, 2011, reducing visibility to 1,000 feet
sudan haboobs — frequent dust storms in khartoum and the sahel region, reaching speeds over 60 mph during hot seasons
arabian peninsula haboobs — common dust storms across iraq, saudi arabia, and the uae, particularly during summer months