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New sandstorm cloud hits Phoenix
By Donal on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:18am |The southwestern state was the scene of a massive sandstorm, also known as a haboob, earlier this month.
The most recent storm caused serious visibility problems for drivers as the dense cloud blocked out the sun and winds gusted up to 30 miles-per-hour.
Haboobs generally occur in arid and semi-arid regions of the earth when storm systems collapse sending draughts of air across the ground which pick up sand and create large clouds of fine particles.
[Articleman, have these haboobs been seen before in Arizona, and simply been getting more frequent lately, or are they something very new?]
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthvideo/8646689/New-sandstorm-cloud-hits-Phoenix.html
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