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the desert deciding to become the sky for an afternoon.
means A storm in which strong winds lift and carry large amounts of sand, reducing visibility and stinging anything in their path.
from A plain compound of "sand" and "storm," both old Germanic words: "sand" traces back through Old English to a Proto-Germanic root shared across the northern tongues, and "storm" likewise descends from Old English "storm," cousin to German "Sturm." The pairing is exactly what it looks like — a storm made of sand — and English readily welds such weather words together, much as it did with "snowstorm" and "thunderstorm."
- reach
- Saharan dust regularly crosses the Atlantic to fertilize the Amazon
- size
- Walls of sand can tower over a kilometer high
- speed
- Leading gust fronts race at 60 miles per hour
- static
- Friction builds enough charge to spark lightning inside
- mars
- Martian dust storms can swallow the entire planet
haboob of sudan — massive dust storm in khartoum that killed 142 people in 1988
black blizzard dust bowl — severe dust storms across us great plains on april 14, 1935, turned day to darkness
shamal iraq — seasonal windstorm in iraq and persian gulf that creates intense sand walls, occurs may-june