Pilot Captures Unbelievable Photo of a Haboob Sweeping over Phoenix

[Huntn]

Probably "haboob" is used because it sounds more exotic, being a foreign loan word (Arabic it seems).

Just like the word tsunami. Ya'll understand that the word tsunami is a loan word that came from Japanese, right? Of course we could call the event an "oceanic tidal wave of epic proportions usually as a result of an undersea earthquake". Or we could just use the word tsunami.

But hey. I'm sure by now there is a nice compilation of haboob videos on YouTube, I guess we could call it the Haboob Tube.

Your point is taken. I'm familiar with tsunami and think that's a great name. I'm also familiar with hurricane vs typhoon, and tornado vs cyclone. All great names, haboob... not so much.

 

[rhett7660]

Yep, and some damn good haboob, too. Looks good on the side, and not flat and flappy, like other, possibly undesirable haboobs.

BL.

Like most haboobs, wait......nevermind.

The pictures are awesome by the way!

 

[bradl]

Like most haboobs, wait......nevermind.

The pictures are awesome by the way!

All to give you weathermen (and some weatherwomen) a meteorological stiffy.

BL.

 

[Solomani]

Your point is taken. I'm familiar with tsunami and think that's a great name. I'm also familiar with hurricane vs typhoon, and tornado vs cyclone. All great names, haboob... not so much.

Oh just give it time. It will grow on you. Like toenail fungus.

 

[rhett7660]

All to give you weathermen (and some weatherwomen) a meteorological stiffy.

BL.

Stiff one coming in from the north!.......... and a set of storms coming up from the south. Guaranteed to be a wet one....