A Haboob hit The Coachella Valley on Thursday
HPWREN web-cam showing a dust storm moving into #Coachella Valley and #AnzaBorrego desert. Vis is near 0. #cawx pic.twitter.com/JDxWP247q6
— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) August 21, 2014
Great photo taken by Albert Keck, northeast of Coachella. #haboob @MyDesert pic.twitter.com/3WA1q5rQDe — Denise Goolsby (@denisegoolsby) August 22, 2014
It completely freaked everyone out
God be like, I challenge the coachella valley to the dirt bucket challenge pic.twitter.com/gKVtZyH0Uf — Daniel Hurtado (@TheD_Hurt) August 21, 2014
Fuck Palm Springs pic.twitter.com/PWxGLDAgaf
— Alex Hall (@alaxerhall) August 21, 2014
Haboob in Palm Springs near the airport. @KMIRNews pic.twitter.com/yyH82C8V1z — Shirley (@SweetestDevotee) August 21, 2014
What’s going on in Indio — BigDaddyDanchak (@MDanchak55) August 21, 2014
Palm desert…where it goes from a thunderstorm to sunny weather to a dust storm in one hour
— Kobe Hill (@kobehill0) August 21, 2014
A dirt bomb in the Coachella Valley! pic.twitter.com/gQuGS32NmZ
— joseph grahn (@pennzdutch) August 22, 2014
Trees snapped due to the winds… 
And, of course, the local TV news handled the haboob weird. KESQ used it as an excuse to promote the 5pm forecast…
And KMIR, well they did whatever this is on Twitter…
MORE HABOOB SHOTS FROM INDIO
— KMIR_NEWS (@KMIRNews) August 22, 2014
HABOOB IN LA QUINTA Send us your video!
— KMIR_NEWS (@KMIRNews) August 21, 2014
HABOOB IN INDIO Thank you for sending, Nicholas Trujillo! — KMIR_NEWS (@KMIRNews) August 22, 2014
Radio stations weren’t much better…
This Dark Cloud seen passing through Coachella Valley is called a Haboob. http://t.co/23tr3y5Trs
— KWXY 107.3FM/AM 1340 (@Legend1073) August 22, 2014
This Dark Cloud seen passing through Coachella Valley is called a Haboob. http://t.co/wf7jv6WDX9
— KPSI Newstalk 920 (@Newstalk920) August 22, 2014
This Dark Cloud seen passing through Coachella Valley is called a Haboob. http://t.co/OLUPt5xGt2
— KPTR 1450 AM (@KPTR1450) August 22, 2014
This Dark Cloud seen passing through Coachella Valley is called a Haboob. http://t.co/OLUPt5xGt2
— KPTR 1450 AM (@KPTR1450) August 22, 2014
But hey, you survived. So congrats on that.
