{"id":765286,"date":"2026-07-16T00:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:33:21","slug":"phoenix-dust-storm-scale-designed-to-measure-severity-of-valley-haboobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765286\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Dust Storm Scale designed to measure severity of Valley haboobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Arizona State University researchers designed a new scale to measure the severity of dust storms in the Phoenix area.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sgsup.asu.edu\/phoenixdust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Dust Storm Scale<\/a> gauges factors such as particulate matter, wind speed, duration and geographic extent to classify events on a 1-5 scale, with 5 being the most severe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, instead of winds like the hurricane scale, we look at the amount of dust in a given volume of air. There are about 20 sensors across the Phoenix metro area that look at these dust concentrations,\u201d Ryan Heintzman, a professor at ASU\u2019s School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, told KTAR News 92.3 FM\u2019s Arizona\u2019s Morning News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we look at the storms, and after the storms occur, see what the level of concentration of dust is and classify based on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC15 Meteorologist Amber Sullins was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/bams\/aop\/BAMS-D-25-0073.1\/BAMS-D-25-0073.1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">part of the team <\/a>that helped bring the Phoenix Dust Storm Scale to life. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more about it from our news partners at KTAR here. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Want more news in your community? Add ABC15 as a preferred source on Google below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-preferred-source-badge-light-en.png\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 30%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/liveplayerbanner1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Arizona State University researchers designed a new scale to measure the severity of dust storms in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-765286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}