TULARE, Calif. – A large dust storm hit central California on Monday, limiting visibility, surprising residents and leaving many of them in the dark. More than 8,000 Pacific Gas & Electric ...

The researchers found that 78% of dust storms during that period were preceded by an extended period of what passes for "warm ...

In fact, the biggest dust devils can only reach wind speeds of 60 mph or higher. To put it in perspective, an EF1 tornado has wind speeds of 86-110 miles per hour.

Iceland is home to the largest and most active desert in Europe. But instead of warm sandy dunes, they are made of black volcanic dust. Like other deserts, it can produce dust storms in windy ...

A haboob, a dust storm carried by the wind of a weather front that typically occurs in flat areas, swept across a California highway near Chowchilla Monday afternoon. The dust storm reduced ...

Dust storms are becoming more common ... but the lake isn’t the biggest source of dust in Utah — and it isn’t clear how much ...

They begin on small scales, but some can blow up into global storms that enshroud the Red Planet in obscuring dust, hiding even the largest surface features from our prying eyes. "Dust storms have ...

When the drought and dust storms showed no signs of letting up ... The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains ...