Big news… this happens all the time in Phoenix in the summer. Phoenix is in the desert. They have lots of dust in the desert. When the monsoons come, the wind blows the dust and often it starts raining mud.
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Last week they were worried about a nuclear catastrophe.
All desert regions are familiar with the “Dust” storm and raining mud! The North Western US gets dust from the Gobi Desert and the South East gets dust from the Sahara Desert.
Fox News morning show yesterday…Anthropogenic Global Grilling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dE1olfw9-w
That clip got cut off, impossibly. Good copy here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKGuY6DwNIc
Bastardi is an amiable chap.
YouTube initially plays my upload just fine then it stops doing so. Grrrr! Here’s a link instead:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1037110923001/is-grilling-contributing-to-global-warming/?playlist_id=87485
Oh, it was working fine, online, but my hard drive had just filled up so when I went to check the post to see if it played it wouldn’t do so. Same thing on the direct link to the Fox News site (“Stream not found”). I was chasing invisible rabbits. It felt like the old days of YouTube.
“Chasing Invisible Rabbits” sounds like you are a climatologist or environmentalist.
It says you removed the video, Nik.
I hope you put it back up, when your computer problem is cleared.
I read a blurb about Bastardi appearing on Fox and am looking forward to seeing your clip.
Got to experience the dust storm live in 3 dimensions yesterday evening. I’ve lived here since ’94, but I was impressed by this particular one. Too bad my camera batteries were dead. Today, all of the recently re-sealed black asphalt roadways in my apartment complex look like hardpacked dirt.
Nevertheless, these do happen on a regular basis, I’d this one was ‘lucky’ for seemingly having a bit more fine powder to it and less than the usual kind of sand, so it looked extra fluffy….
But it is an awesome picture!