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Desert Dust Bomb

2021-10-08 By Roger Edwards

Desert Dust Bomb

This is a cloud, all right—a dust cloud, and a fast-moving, dense, nasty one that stymied traffic west of Tucson, as it caught indirect sunset light reflected off clouds to the west.   It also was a fascinating manifestation of fluid flow.   The outflow that caused this blew a well-defined haboob through Tucson itself, briefly and directly sunlit, before crossing some small mountain ranges that redirected the wind off into various channels and directions.   One of those currents focused onto a patch of desert a short distance to my southeast and lofted a strikingly dense dust bomb rapidly skyward for hundreds of feet, moving leftward (northward) and perpendicular to the westward aim of the haboob as a whole.

4 WSW Three Points AZ (10 Jul 21) Looking SE
32.0624, -111.3851

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow, Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: Arizona, clouds, convection, deserts, dust, geology, landscapes, outflow, storms, sunsets, Three Points, twilight, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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