A massive dust storm has swept across Arizona, forcing hundreds of flights to be grounded at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Local media reported over 200 departure flights were delayed as of last night, following a ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration which restricted takeoffs and landings for around an hour.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service described the dust storm as a “haboob”.<\/p>\n
Weather experts say haboobs frequently occur during the summer monsoon season in the southwest United States.<\/p>\n
They happen when thunderstorms produce downdrafts that kick up dry, loose sand on the desert floor, creating a wall of dust that travels outward, spanning a much larger area than the thunderstorm itself.<\/p>\n
Road transport was also disrupted as police reported traffic light outages and downed trees.<\/p>\n
Some 5,700 people were also affected by power outages, local media said.<\/p>\n
The storm also swept through Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and threatened to upend the Burning Man festival.<\/p>\n
Footage showed people wearing face covering holding onto tent poles while others drilled the infrastructure into the ground as strong winds lashed across the area.<\/p>\n
Accreditation: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive dust storm has swept across Arizona, forcing hundreds of flights to be grounded at the Sky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-94631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}