Dust storms

[DeeGee]

Looking down towards the River Clwyd at Rhuddlan and there have been clouds of dust blowing all morning off acres of maize fields; God knows how many tonnes of soil have been blown out to sea! Never seen it before and quite frightening to witness!

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[7610 super q]

Pffffft.......

 

[Goweresque]

Pffffft.......

Pembrokeshire has changed since I last visited.......

 

[Greythundercloudys]

It's blowing a gale here today in Scotland with heavy showers, so the dust has settled, had a guy sown 12 acres of grass yesterday morning, the ground was nearly to sticky after a 20 minute heavy shower but got it done OK in the end. Very stormy weekend forecast.

 

[Wombat]

Sand locally been blowing all day, it’s gusting to 50kph at the moment

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Who would have thought in early March . I saw cloads of dust near Banbury today coming off Potato ground Separators

 

[Kidds]

I looked out of the window this morning and wondered whose fields would be blowing away today.

Just had to rescue my poly tunnel as it was thinking about taking off.

 

[Happy hillbily]

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Remember my time on a station in Broken hill, had a few dust storms then, i loved them (they were a new phenomenon to me) but the boss hated them with a passion.
Unfortunately part of nature for that part of the world.

 

[uztrac]

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The pictures remind me very very much of the "Haboob" or dust storms that are a regular occurance in The Sudan.

 

[steveR]

Beet on the sand here was looking pebble dashed, but not as bad as a field of maize about 2 miles away that was moving well... Could hardly see through the dust when doing some fencing...!

 

[Phil P]

Been like a haze all day round here, never seen it picking up soil like it has been today! Considering we got 4 and half mm or rain last night as well it’s definitely not dampened the dust.

(It’s not one of my fields blowing away?)

 

[Barleycorn]

Been silaging today and quite a challenge to get the grass into the trailers against the wind, not to mention all the dust and crap blowing back into the radiator.

 

[David.]

Who would have thought in early March . I saw cloads of dust near Banbury today coming off Potato ground Separators

Should have stopped for socially distant coffee; that is the next field to me.
Was wild yesterday.

 

[Flat 10]

Been like a haze all day round here, never seen it picking up soil like it has been today! Considering we got 4 and half mm or rain last night as well it’s definitely not dampened the dust.
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(It’s not one of my fields blowing away?)

A shower can make it worse