HABOOB
Sudanese name for duststorm or sandstorm with strong winds that carry small particles of dirt or sand into the air, particularly severe in areas of drought.
Haboob A strong wind and sandstorm (or duststorm) in the northern and central Sudan, especially around Khartum, where the average number is about 24 per year. The name come from the Arabic word, "habb", meaning wind.
Haboob A dust or sandstorm that forms as cold downdrafts from a thunderstorm turbulently lift dust and sand into the air.
Haboob A dust or sandstorm caused by the downdraft of a desert thunderstorm.
HABOOB: From Arabic, the meteorological term for a dust storm.
HAIL: Frozen precipitation in the form of layered lumps of ice produced by convection within cumulonimbus clouds.
HAZE: Fine dust particles present in a portion of the atmosphere.
HABOOB - A dust storm kicked up by a thunderstorm gust front. Common in the southwest United States during the monsoon.
H Designated letter for "HAZE"
Haboob: A desert dust storm.
Hail: Jagged or round ice chunks that fall from thunderstorms. When the hail is cut is half, it contains rings for each time it rose and fell in the storm and resembles and onion.
This complex had the appearance of a haboob, a dense sandstorm that occurs along the leading edge of outflow boundaries of desert thunderstorms in North Africa.
the haboob). 2. Local or colloquial names given to frequently occurring or particularly noteworthy winds (sometimes because of the bad weather associated with them), usually from a certain direction.
While these are often shorter-lived than synoptically forced duststorms, they can be quite intense, with an impressive leading edge of the dusty gust front, sometimes called a dust wall. Compare haboob.
 See also: Air, Light, Surface, Thunder, Dust
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