Satellite captures colossal dust wall as it moves over northern Mexico

Time-lapse outer imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research successful the Atmosphere (CIRA) showed a monolithic particulate tempest barreling implicit bluish Mexico betwixt April 19 and 20.

The benignant of storm, known arsenic a “haboob,” caused hazardous upwind conditions passim the region, prompting authorities to adjacent the Pan-American Highway owed to debased visibility.  

A ample particulate tempest swept done bluish Mexico implicit the weekend. It was truthful monolithic that it was intelligibly disposable connected satellite. pic.twitter.com/4EX2eQa8AB

— AccuWeather (@accuweather) April 22, 2025

This bonzer improvement covered a ample portion of the cardinal and confederate parts of Chihuahua state, affecting astatine slightest 15 municipalities, including the borderline metropolis of Ciudad Juárez. The tempest originated successful the municipality of Ahumada and rapidly dispersed southward, covering towns, highways and municipality areas, until reaching the authorities superior and surrounding municipalities. 

Videos connected societal media amusement a gigantic file of particulate moving rapidly and covering everything successful its path. 

Authorities successful Chihuahua noted that these types of upwind events are communal during the summertime successful godforsaken areas of the state, with varying degrees of intensity. However, Sergio Rodríguez, caput of the General Directorate of Civil Protection successful Ciudad Juárez, saidthat determination has been nary record, astatine slightest successful the past 15 to 20 years, of a earthy improvement of this magnitude successful the state. 

“It was an atypical storm,” Rodríguez told quality outlet NMás. 

So far, nary injuries oregon important worldly harm person been reported.

According to the World Health Organization, a haboob is simply a large, fast-moving partition of soil and particulate driven by beardown winds descending from a thunderstorm. The improvement typically occurs successful arid and semi-arid regions. 

Chihuahua, successful northwestern Mexico, is known for its arid and utmost weather, with 40% of its territory classified arsenic having a adust climate. The authorities is location to the Chihuahua Desert, North America’s largest desert. The largest expanse is located successful Mexico, including regions of the states of San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Coahuila and Durango.

The godforsaken besides reaches into the southwestern United States, including parts of Arizona, New Mexico and confederate Texas.

With reports from Yahoo, Excélsior and NMás