A dust storm, also known as a haboob, forms when strong, straight-line winds meet soil residue sitting among crops, ...

In mid-May, a giant wall of dust paraded across parts of the U.S. Midwest, and, thanks to the National Oceanic and ...

A new report from the National Weather Service concluded that a combination of drier soil, recent agricultural tilling, and dry windy conditions formed the rare dust storm that swept through Central ...

The National Weather Service issued Chicago’s first dust storm warning on May 16. A combination of dry soil, strong winds, and thunderstorms caused the rare plume. It was the city’s worst dust ...

But, while sudden dust storms can be dangerous, the lesser known harms lie in the windswept particles themselves — with the Chicago dust storm likely to contain lead, farm chemicals and ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...

A large dust storm swept through Illinois Friday, sparking the first-ever dust storm warning for Chicago as it led to numerous crashes and travel warnings across the state. So how exactly did it ...

The National Weather Service said that this was first time it ever had issued a dust storm warning that included the city of Chicago. What happened? “Thunderstorms in central Illinois produced a ...

Parts of Chicago were engulfed by an unusual dust storm over the weekend, reducing visibility to zero. This marks the first occurrence of such a storm in the city since 1934.

The last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during the Dust Bowl in the early to mid-1930s.

The Independent quotes Stuart Evans about Chicago’s first dust storm in over 90 years. “In a place like Illinois where the source of the dust is agricultural … trends in dust can be very strongly ...