Dustbowl Days – IOTW Report

Dustbowl Days

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There have been three main storms this month that have upended daily life in parts of the Southwest, southern Plains and Chihuahua, Mexico: one on March 3 and 4, one on March 14, last Friday, and one this week, on Tuesday.

And each time, dust from this unusually intense succession of storms did something even more unusual: It was lofted up and carried hundreds of miles north and east to other parts of North America.

National Weather Service offices in Charleston, W.Va., and St. Louis have shared satellite images showing that dust from the Southwest had been swept up high into the atmosphere and then, as light rain moved through their regions, been pulled down to the ground. Last week, television stations as far away as North Carolina were talking about the “dirty rain” that had fallen from the sky.

Particles from Tuesday’s dust storm made their way to Iowa, where snow on the ground had a “brownish, yellowish tinge,” said Brooke Hagenhoff, a meteorologist with the Weather Service office in Des Moines. More

And here I thought it was the ash of Malibu had settled on the hood of my car. – Dr. Tar

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