Where did yesterday's dust storm end up?
This weather satellite image at sunrise today shows a brownish plume that extends up to parts of Nebraska, Iowa, etc. (I surrounded the dusty plume with green dots.)
This is a follow up to:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/114413002689880165
Yet another dust storm over the southeast half of New Mexico, far west Texas, the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma panhandle, extending into Colorado and Kansas.
The dust is coming from prehistoric lake beds in northern Chihuahua, Mexico:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Palomas
"Presently its basin is a major source of airborne dust in the region."
With the severe drought conditions in this region, it takes far weaker winds to create these dust storms compared to previous decades. Visibility at my house is less than 1/2 mile.
Note that the dust is tan, but that the gypsum dust from White Sands is paler. A fire is burning in northeast Sonora, Mexico...the smoke plume is bluish. A fire develops in central New Mexico (Rio Grande valley, town of Socorro) at the end of the animation loop. https://app.watchduty.org/i/47153
Flash floods, tornadoes, oh my. Stay safe, folks.
KAKE: Eight confirmed dead, 71 vehicles involved in multi-vehicle pileup on I-70 in northwest Kansas
(I-70 now clear, this accident was on Friday)
The Friday, 14 March, dust storm started before sunrise in New Mexico and kept racing east through the Texas Panhandle, then farther north into Oklahoma and Kansas.
[Edit/add: many grass/wildfires being driven by the wind. Thousands of acres burned in a matter of a few hours. https://app.watchduty.org/i/43769 ]
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