A drive through the Rub Al Khali_NW
This photo is 180 degrees from "A drive through the Rub Al Khali_SE". www.flickr.com/photos/jakelley/21547065940/in/album-72157...
As I was concentrating on photographing the other landscape, I could feel the wind starting to pick up. I turned around and could not believe the sight. This was my first experience with an "HABOOB"; a type of intense dust storm carried on an atmospheric gravity current or weather front. Haboobs occur regularly in arid regions throughout the world. The tallest dunes on the horizon are over 100 feet. The estimated height of the dust cloud of fine sand is over 500 feet.
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A drive through the Rub Al Khali_NW
This photo is 180 degrees from "A drive through the Rub Al Khali_SE". www.flickr.com/photos/jakelley/21547065940/in/album-72157...
As I was concentrating on photographing the other landscape, I could feel the wind starting to pick up. I turned around and could not believe the sight. This was my first experience with an "HABOOB"; a type of intense dust storm carried on an atmospheric gravity current or weather front. Haboobs occur regularly in arid regions throughout the world. The tallest dunes on the horizon are over 100 feet. The estimated height of the dust cloud of fine sand is over 500 feet.
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