Illinois Haboob: not just a South Bend insult for someone from Chicago.
Bottom two images are from South Bend, Indiana.
It should be noted that the fascists in power are defending NOAA and stripping the National Weather Service of its funding in the name of profit and deals with private, subscription only weather services.
NEW: The National Weather Service in Chicago says that the dust storm yesterday could be classified as a "Haboob". A Haboob is an intense dust storm caused by strong winds lofting a wall of dust as high as 5,000 feet, leading to a significant reduction in visibility and an increase in wind speed following the passage of the leading edge of the haboob. They also usually lead to blowing dust that lasts for tens of minutes or even several hours.
Typically, Haboobs occur in desert and semi-arid areas, but an extremely unique combination of ingredients with very dry air aloft caused intense downbursts to crash to the ground well ahead of storms. This, combined with low relative humidity, low soil moisture and farming activity that regularly occurs at this time of year led to the vivid and intense wall of dust spotted by many. The Haboob was this wall of dust running east-west, stretching from I-39 near Bloomington all the way into Western Indiana, lifting north quickly and making it all the way into Lake Michigan.
Top wind gusts included 78 mph on Lake Michigan by Chicago, 75mph in Oxford, IN, 69 mph at Willard Airport, 68 mph in Bloomington, 64 mph in South Chicago, 61 mph in Decatur, 60 mph at Midway Airport and 55 mph in Joliet.
The last time Chicago was impacted by such a significant dust storm was during the Dust Bowl on May 10th, 1934.