The visible satellite image this afternoon clearly shows a dust storm over the Columbia Basin, stretching from around Moses Lake to the east (orange arrow shows the feature)
My colleagues at the National Weather Service in Spokane made an excellent forecast of this dust event, providing warnings yesterday when it was clear low-level winds would be strong. In some places, visibility has dropped down to less than 1/4 mile. Occasionally down to zero
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Announcement: Free Public Lecture at Kane Hall on October 10: Global Warming, the Jet Stream, and Cold Waves
All of you are invited to attend what should be an excellent public lecture by Professor Jonathan Martin on how global warming affects the jet stream and cold air outbreaks.
It will be a timely and interesting lecture accessible to non-meteorologists and given in honor of UW Professor Peter Hobbs.
The talk will be at 7 PM in Kane Hall room 210.
If you would like to go, please register online here:
Parking is available (at a modest cost) in the UW Central Garage, which is located directly under Kane Hall. Or take the light rail (the UW stops are a 5-10-minute walk away).
I've been on I-90 near Ritzville when dozens of Dust Devils entertained us. There are videos of such on the Web. No actual dust storm for me, but I do wonder why the difference.
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