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Wind currents across the Atlantic Ocean will soon steer dust from the Saharan Desert in northern Africa toward Green Country.

Three main factors contribute to the formation of Midwest dust storms: strong winds, dry soil in farm fields and large ...

In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains ...

A large wall of dust, called a haboob, moved through El Paso on Sunday, June 15, with many capturing images of a hazy, ominous skyline.

The NWS Chicago office confirmed that it's been close to a century since the city was hit with an event of this proportion; that storm took place in the early to mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era.

Australia experienced its own smaller dust bowl about a century after British settlers arrived. Overgrazing in the late 1800s removed native vegetation from large parts of western New South Wales.

El Paso has experienced 10 dust storms this year, trailing only the Dust Bowl years of 1935 and 1936. The average is 1.8 storms per year, according to Gill.

A dust storm warning is also in effect until 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, in El Paso and the surrounding area. Travel could be dangerous for Interstate-10, Interstate-25, and Interstate-110 near ...

Black Sunday: On April 14, 1935, Texas and Oklahoma faced the infamous Dust Bowl. Conditions exacerbated by record drought across the nation and high winds led to dust storms on unprecedented levels.

That’s more than five times the average of 1.8 storms per year—and makes 2025 the worst dust season since 1936, when the Dust Bowl swept America, laying into El Paso with 11 storms.