00:00And more news coming in. Let's get you more details of what's happening as far as Arizona is concerned.
00:05It's a major dust storm sweeping through Arizona.
00:09Dust storm was seen clogging. The sky is over Arizona's Penelope County area.
00:15This happened two days ago.
00:17The National Weather Service has described the dust storm as a haboob
00:22and urged drivers to pull over if they encountered poor driving conditions.
00:27Take a look at these pictures, in fact, coming in from the U.S.
00:30Haboob Suterra viewers frequently occur during the summer monsoon season in south to west United States.
00:37These are pictures coming in clearly from an airport where you see these planes are stranded right there.
00:42They happen when thunderstorms produce downdrafts that kick up dry, loose sand on the desert floor,
00:49creating a wall of dust that travels outwards, spanning a much larger area than the thunderstorm itself.
00:56It's what weather experts say.
01:04Pictures are from Arizona at this point in time, as you can see.
01:08It's a very moment when a massive dust storm surged through Arizona in the U.S.
01:13It's a scary haboob dust storm they were reporting on, slamming Arizona's Phoenix area.
01:18It's seen wild pictures coming in of the dust storm hitting this region.
01:25It's covered central Arizona in dust.
01:30It's a dust storm approaching the Phoenix metro area, is what we're learning,
01:35as the monsoon storm pushes the dust into the air.
01:38Engulfed by a towering tall wall of dust, I beg your pardon, producing dramatic scenes there,
01:45sending shockwaves far beyond the Grand Canyon state.
01:49Large, it went through a metropolitan area, gaining a fair amount of attention there.
01:56There's pictures coming in from Arizona.
01:58The storm weakened is what we're learning at this point in time,
02:05as it moved through central, north-central Arizona, and lasted for one hour or so.
02:13Skies were clocked, and all of these planes were grounded in Arizona.
02:18A boob is used to describe any wind-driven sunstorm or dust storm in arid or semi-arid regions.
02:28They've been observed in various countries.
02:31These are pictures coming in from Arizona at this point in time.
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