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1 Dust Storm !

2 A Sahara dust storm driven out to sea by the northeast tradewinds (locally called the harmettan). In this manner some dust reaches North America!

3 Images of a nasty-looking dust storm at Colby, Kansas on May 29, 2004
This is the same dust storm at Wakeeney, Kansas.

4 Phoenix dust storm, July 5, 2011 Australian dust storm
More images Phoenix dust storm, July 5, 2011 Australian dust storm For more, go to Google Image Search for Dust Storm

5 Doesn’t camping in a dust storm look like fun?

6 Or riding in this?

7 When you have to live with it.….Not fun…..

8 The American Dust Bowl A model has reconstructed the Dust Bowl drought quite closely, providing strong evidence that the Great Plains dry spell originated with abnormal sea surface temperatures. This sequence shows the warmer than normal SST (red-orange) in that the Atlantic Ocean and colder than normal SST (blues) in the Pacific Ocean, followed by a low level jet stream that shifted and weakened reducing the normal supply of moisture to the Great Plains.

9 The End!


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