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Sunset Dust Plume

2024-07-25 By Roger Edwards

Sunset Dust Plume

A growing, sheared-over dust plume rose and arched over the highway from its roots a minute earlier as a “Desert Dust Bomb.”  Its particles reddened both by internal iron oxide and the filtered sunset light, the dust cloud presented a striking and peculiar sight to motorists on this stretch of highway.  It was but the frontal lobe of an extensive haboob that had dusted Tucson and vicinity densely, and that would blow onward well into the evening hours before settling out as far est as the lower Colorado River Valley.  Lights down the road emanated from vehicles at a Border Patrol checkpoint barn erected over the road. 

4 WSW Three Points AZ (10 Jul 21) Looking ENE
32.0626, -111.3852

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow, Sunsets and Sunrises Tagged With: Arizona, clouds, convection, deserts, dust, geology, highways, 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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