Desert Sandstorms
This photo was taken at 8,000ft while flying over the Negev Desert in southern Israel.The sandstorm was moving at an incredible 70km/hr and rose up to around 1km high.
These very cool photos captured a sandstorm gathering over Kansas.
Kansas seems to be where sandstorms like to party. Due to the amount of farming in the area, during the drier months, strong winds pick up the loose soil and sand. If it¡¯s very warm, changes in the atmosphere produce much stronger winds near the ground resulting in massive duststorms.
Sandstorms in Australia are not uncommon but, since farmers are working larger and larger areas of land, there is more loose soil and sand for the winds to play with, producing whoppers of sandstorms like this one rolling through Griffith, New South Wales.
The Harmattan - a southwesterly gale that blows down from the Sahara during the dry season - means sandstorms are a regular occurence in Mali. This storm has grown so big it¡¯s difficult to see where the sand ends and clouds begin.
It¡¯s hard to tell the magnitude of this Sudanese sandstorm, until you look at the size of the people in the fore ground.
north of Agadez, in Niger.
The sky is quite blue and the trees aren¡¯t showing much sign of being wind-beaten, but there¡¯s definitely a storm there.
Sandstorms are the last thing you¡¯d expect in Iceland, but they¡¯re actually quite common and can occur suddenly in the Askja and Sprengisandur regions.
A sandstorm gathers over El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico. This one seems to go for miles along the horizon.
Monument Valley, Utah, part of the Navajo Indian Reservation.
A sandstorm gathers out at sea near Velvia, Fuji. Bet those guys on the boat are chugging along for dear life!
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