Story Created:
Aug 19, 2011 at 3:15 PM EDT
Story Updated:
Aug 19, 2011 at 3:15 PM EDT
Metropolitan Phoenix is shaking itself off after a giant wall of dust smacked the city for the third time within the last six weeks and turned the skies brown and coated anything left outside in a thin layer of fine dirt.
PHOENIX (AP) - Metropolitan Phoenix is shaking itself off after a giant wall of dust smacked the city for the third time within the last six weeks and turned the skies brown and coated anything left outside in a thin layer of fine dirt.
The wall of dust was 1,000 feet high and traveled at least 50 miles before it petered out.
It lessened visibility, created dangerous driving conditions and caused some airline flights to be delay.
The National Weather Service says thunderstorms moving through southern Arizona supplied winds that stirred up fine dust in the agricultural fields and sent the storm toward the state's largest city.
Meteorologists also are trying to determine whether damage to the south in Pinal County and other areas during the storm was caused by microbursts.
Information from: KNXV-TV, http://www.abc15.com
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