We've had some weird weather events here in Kuwait of late (or at least weird to us Minnesotans!). The above picture is of a dust devil. This is one of 5 that blew through one afternoon. By the time I got to my camera, it had moved into a gravel area and turned white in color. When it came across the open desert it was tan, and much easier to see. I never realized how big dust devils get (note the vehicles and light towers in the pic) they are like sand tornadoes with no storm!
The next day, a heavy thunderstorm rolled in. The gust front ahead of the storm picked up sand and dust and made the storm orange as it rolled in (above picture). When the rain moved in, it literally rained mud! I must say, that was a first for me.By the way, we saw 118 degrees Fahrenheit on Memorial day, the newest high temp! The up side to all this weather madness........no mosquitoes!
Looking forward to Minnesota weather,
Zimm
2 comments:
that is crazy. i bet it is weirder to see in person. I saw some sand storms I went to Pheonix, but nothing like the pics from you.
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Wow, those are some cool pics! We need a good ol' dust storm here in MN, haha just kidding. Actually we have not really had much for storms this summer. Ya would have thought we'd have a weather watch or two by now...but nothing.
-Yurko, #115
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