Wild video captured a massive dust storm known as a “haboob” that caused car crashes, shut down major highways and left the ...

A massive dust storm buried parts of New Mexico and Texas in airborne smut Monday morning, shutting down highways and leaving nearly 900,000 residents trapped in a potentially deadly cloud.The dust ...

Worldwide, haboobs have been seen in the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, the Sahara Desert and in central Australia. In the U.S., haboobs are typically observed in regions in the Southwest ...

Dust storms are most common in dry, desert areas of the Southwest. A massive haboob rolled through parts of California last November. A haboob is just one of the many ways a day can go from calm ...

Derived from haab, which means wind or blow in Arabic, haboobs are common in arid, desert regions such as the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and Mexico's Sonora Desert. This kind of dust ...