What causes the powerful #winds that fuel #duststorms, #wildfires and #blizzards? A #weather #scientist explains
Dust storms kicking up at the NM/Mexico border, and a small part of Colorado. #COwx #NMwx #duststorms 3/18/25 1122MT
A highway pileup near Colorado border shows how dust storms can turn deadly
‘We have a very low level of public awareness of a dust storm and what damage it can cause’
A highway pileup near Colorado border shows how dust storms can turn deadly
‘We have a very low level of public awareness of a dust storm and what damage it can cause’
BBC.com: #US #tornadoes, #wildfires and #duststorms leave 40 dead and 'staggering' damage
,#environment #climate change
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gm6jjqzg2o
33 people were killed by #tornadoes and #DustStorms (?!) from #Texas to #Arkansas. https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/severe-weather-disaster-33-dead-after-destructive-tornadoes-wildfires-and-dust-storms-sweep-across-us/1754990
Meanwhile #DonaldTheDeplorable is gutting #FEMA and begging #Denmark for #eggs. 
NWS explains why ‘#MudRain’ fell across #WestVirginia
McKenna Galloway, Sat, March 8, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — "On Friday evening, many in West Virginia noticed something was making their cars dirty. As it turns out, this was a unique weather phenomenon is known as 'mud rain', but what exactly is it, and why did it come to West Virginia? The explanation is actually quite simple.
"According to a Facebook post from the US National Weather Service in Charleston (#NWS), the mud rain or ‘dirty rain’ so many experienced Friday was the result of dust being blown in from the southwest and southern plains, which was then 'brought down with falling precipitation.'"
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nws-explains-why-mud-rain-153446469.html
#Weather #DustStorms #DirtyRain
‘Dirty' rain leaves cars coated in Central Virginia: 'I really want to know what this is'
https://www.wtvr.com/news/weather-news/dirty-rain-coats-cars-central-virginia-march-8-2025
Dust Storm Safety
1. Pull off the road
2. Turn off your lights
3. Put your car in park
4. Take your foot off the brake
5. Wait for conditions to improve
Travel down the rab...er...#corn hole with John Oliver as he reveals the financial & environmental [& social] impacts / costs of corn-ication in the U.S. [Probably, elsewhere, too.] https://youtu.be/MI78WOW_u-Q #comedy #pollution #agriculture #heath #CorporateWelfare #ToxicAlgae #inequity #crime #racism #monopoly #monocrop #erosion #AntibioticResistantBacteria #CAFOs #water #DeadZones #anoxia #nitrates #BlueBabies #DustStorms #ClimateChange #BirdFlu
