Haboob

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:59 pm

Phoenix is currently experiencing a Haboob.
A truely mean weather event.

7.62 Precision · Post by **7.62 Precision** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:02 pm

Can't be so cold and wet, can it be?

How rainy can it get in Arizona, anyway?

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:29 am

Head down....chins up....

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:33 am

Must be due to 'climate change'...

williamranks · Post by **williamranks** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:49 am

Nice steady rain up here since sundown.
Lot of dunder and blixem towards Cottonwood.
Temp dropped from 104 to 75 in no time.

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:33 am

Dust storm I says.

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 8:01 am

.

Does it look like this ?

(near Ransom Canyon, Texas, June 2009)

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Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:11 am

Yes, only more intense.

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:19 am

I think the Phoenix area dust storms are one the true life events that Hollywood hasn't outdone oin dramatic portrayal.

92&94 · Post by **92&94** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:39 pm

That's what makes the south of Picacho Peak area of I-10 a death trap. Lots of dust and people driving 85 to 90 mph in it.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:48 pm

I thought that was the name of one of those guys that just got let out of Guantanamo...

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:07 pm

FWiedner wrote:I thought that was the name of one of those guys that just got let out of Guantanamo...

It is....translates to Dancing With Goats....

Dave B · Post by **Dave B** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 9:44 pm

I was born in Phoenix and refuse to use this term for these events. They were dust storms 50 yrs ago and are still dust storms today.

Dave B

Buck Elliott · Post by **Buck Elliott** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:25 pm

Hollywood did a fair job of it in "Hidalgo..."

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:39 pm

You know,
that movie deserved more attention than it got.
I remember sitting on the edge of the couch ( at the race to the finish )
saying to myself " don't die Hidalgo, don't die! )

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:30 pm

Mescalero wrote:You know,
that movie deserved more attention than it got.
I remember sitting on the edge of the couch ( at the race to the finish )
saying to myself " don't die Hidalgo, don't die! )

It was a heck of a movie....

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:41 pm

Stay safe Mescalero.

J35 · Post by **J35** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:57 pm

Dave B wrote:I was born in Phoenix and refuse to use this term for these events. They were dust storms 50 yrs ago and are still dust storms today.

Dave B

I was born in Ray and agree 110% !!!

-------J

Bullard4075 · Post by **Bullard4075** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:04 am

Dave B wrote:I was born in Phoenix and refuse to use this term for these events. They were dust storms 50 yrs ago and are still dust storms today.

Dave B

I looked up Haboob. It's a dust storm of sorts. Why do you object to the name? I'm not being contrary just curious.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:42 am

I remember a trip back to Orange County after a week's honeymoon at the Colorado River and dropping off the Chiriaco Summit (where's there a great Gen'l Patton Memorial Museum), and looking at this dark cloud that looked to be headed east... thinkin' this is going to eat the paint right off my '55 Chevy... and it turns out it was just the smog layer over Riverside!

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