| The school bell clanged and children flew from the doors scattering like sand grains whipping about in a dust storm. |
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| Barcoo gave us Barcoo rot for a form of scurvy and the Darling River gave us Darling shower for a dust storm. |
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| The training patrol turned out be a challenging exercise due to a violent dust storm. |
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| This limitation caused them to run into a haboob, or dust storm, that they could not fly over without breaking the 200 foot limit. |
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| At about two a tremendous dust storm came in followed by hailstones as big as cricket balls. |
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| A violent dust storm struck Beijing Thursday morning, darkening the skies and sending residents scurrying for cover. |
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| It starts with a mild sore throat, often after a bad dust storm such as the two-day gale that raged last week. |
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| The city witnessed an unprecedented dust storm and gusty winds, followed by torrential rain, on Monday evening, throwing life out of gear. |
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| The Chinook crashed in a dust storm 80 miles southwest of the capital city of Kabul. |
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| What you're looking at is a dust storm with winds as high as 45 miles an hour. |
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| It was a wild weekend of weather in some states, starting with a massive dust storm whipping across the southeast of New South Wales on Friday. |
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| Luckily, the dust storm had cleared and the full moon helped to illuminate the settlement in the distance. |
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| In late October last year, Queensland had its largest dust storm in more than 40 years. |
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| Shamal is the indigenous word that describes the rapid onset of winds in the desert and the ensuing dust storm. |
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| The dust storm carried over into the cavern, sending the exploration team diving for cover. |
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| Despite the dust storm, it landed on the surface and for a few tantalising moments started transmitting the first view from the Martian surface. |
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| They deployed into the teeth of a furious dust storm that ended in thunder and rain and left tents flattened and Kuwait City covered in tawny dust and mud. |
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| One large storm system is churning high above the northern polar cap at the top of the picture, and a smaller dust storm cloud can be seen nearby. |
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| I watched for nights as they came with rockets flashing red through the sky and again on impact so they could see through the never-ending dust storm. |
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| There were hinged shutters to fasten against the occasional dust storm. |
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| This dust storm is a harbinger of more wintry and volatile weather to come. |
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| Dust can be carried up by winds into the atmosphere in a number of ways. See also dust devil, dust storm, and dust plume. |
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| We demonstrated a dampening effect of earlier vegetation growth in the spring on regional spring dust storm frequency. |
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| The Phoenix team tracked the dust storm last week through images gleaned from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Mars Color Imager. |
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| In early 1972, following a long dust storm, Mariner 9 reveals a geological universe completely different to that imaged in previous missions. |
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| At the same time as the UNCCD's COP 9, a vast red sand and dust storm originating from interior Australia hit the east coast of Australia. |
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| The post-Kyoto arrangements will have to look at the dust storm and sandstorm issue closely in order to identify the root causes of the problem and eradicate it. |
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| Your correspondent imagined a blustery Martian dust storm outside. |
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| A huge dust storm rolls in behind meteorological technician Cpl Greg Greenway of 14 Wing Greenwood, a member of the Canadian element of COMKAF Headquarters. |
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| As the effect of dust storm on environment, industry and agriculture including vehicles, precision machines, crops, livestock and sericulture has been clarified, measures to prevent its damage are being taken. |
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| In a major dust storm, dunes may move tens of metres through such sheet flows. |
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| In the Soviet Union, waste stored in Lake Karachay was blown over the area during a dust storm after the lake had partly dried out. |
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| The prominent dust layer, covered by a few cm of fresh snow when this picture was taken on the Quintino Sella Glacier, from the 2001 dust storm originating in the central Asia deserts. |
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| The warning system supported by WMO Member countries can inform users and coordinate regional activities up to five days in advance of sand and dust storm risks through WMO Regional SDS Warning Centres. |
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| The dust storm, which is also being called a Haboob have made for impossible driving commutes as well. |
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| The imager's team estimated that after the dust storm passed through Phoenix's landing site on Saturday, the dust would gradually decrease this week. |
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| The Phoenix Mars Lander successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is back investigating the Red Planet's northern plains. |
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| It was a wild weather day across Alberta with a blinding dust storm near Medicine Hat, wind-driven grass fires in Calgary, 30 cm of snow in Edmonton, and deadly avalanches and mudslides in the Rockies. |
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