dust storm

Perry’s mission was to check for heavy metals in the soil, and to determine whether this vast swath of newly exposed sediment could end up fueling apocalyptic dust storms and render Salt Lake City all but uninhabitable.

In places like Arizona, people know to be alert for symptoms of airborne illnesses like Valley fever after dust storms, since infections increase downwind afterward.

Unpredictable weather events, especially dust storms, are one reason landing accuracy has suffered in previous missions.

A camera will snap pictures of the planet using a slew of filters that restrict different wavelengths, helping scientists learn more about the water and ice content in the atmosphere or the nature of dust storms closer to the ground.

Then dust storms might come along and knock the crust down, triggering dry landslides.

The PUMAs were sort of lost in the pixie dust storm of the Obama election.

"A dust-storm, probably," replied the colonel, as the weather had been dry and parching hot for several weeks past.

A dust-storm was raging, and we had some difficulty in finding our way through the network of trenches.

It had been blowing a dust-storm all day, and on that account I hardly expected Gilmour, but now there was no doubt.

All that night a dust storm raged, succeeded next morning by torrential rain.

It was only the other day, in a dust-storm away back near the Darling, as bad a one as ever I was out in.