Community Chat

[MaggieToo]

If you want to see more of Phoenix's dust storms, Google Phoenix dust storms and look at the "images'. I guess this was yesterday.

[foundinlv]

I couldn't live in Phoenix because of that. How awful to breathe it or be driving when it hits. Probably many car accidents occur.

[Lotus]

It WAS yesterday.....a friend of mine posted some pics last night and when I asked him if it was close to him, he said "right outside my window, Deb".

I can't imagine going thru that.....I guess it's like a "dry hurricane"????? It looks so scary!!

[Tyak]

I live up the road a few hundred miles from Phoenix (Vegas) and we never get anything like that. Aren't those storms called haboobs or something like that? I can't imagine being in one of them but the pictures I've seen sure are amazing. We're also in the desert and I just wonder what it is about Phoenix that they get them and we don't.

[bells4me]

Everytime Phoenix gets an haboob or some rain, it's prime time news.

[azterry!]

I am just a few miles east of Scottsdale and we didn't get the Haboob. It was mainly in the southeast and downtown portion of the Phoenix metro area.

The Haboobs almost always come up from the south. There is a lot of open desert and the very warm air mixes with cooler air producing the swirling winds. I've never seen one come from the north.

[RUKIDDINGME]

That dust combined with 115 degrees is like living on the sun. I hate living here!

[hennypenny]

that looks so scary to me. I have never experienced anything like that. Does the dust come in through the walls and windows?What do you do if you are outside? How much warning do you get?

[MomOf4]

I was raised in Phoenix (Scottsdale) and we occasional had dust storms not ""Haboobs"". The media likes to make a much bigger deal out of them than they actually are.

[Teacups]

On 7/26/2014 RUKIDDINGME said:

That dust combined with 115 degrees is like living on the sun. I hate living here!

LOL then move.....