A huge cloud of dust covers Phoenix

(Los Angeles) An immense cloud of dust crossed the city of Phoenix on Monday, in the southwest of the United States, strongly limiting visibility and causing delays at the airport in the capital of Arizona, according to the authorities.

“This monsoon dust is not kidding (…). Please be careful, “wrote on X the city of Phoenix on Monday, accompanying it with a photo where a wall of dust approaches the tarmac of the airport.

“Due to the storm tonight, there are delays,” wrote the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on the same social network.

Media and Internet users have published images of this impressive dust cloud tinged with Orange.

The NWS of Phoenix, the city’s weather services, had declared a storm of dust storm, “with information reporting as low as 50 feet” (about 15 meters).

“Be careful on the road, put yourself on the aisle, stay alive,” he exhorted on X.

To accompany its calls for prudence, the city of Phoenix has also published images of bad weather.

This type of climatic event, which in general arrives, can occur anywhere in the United States, even if these storms are more frequent in the southwest of the country, note the American metrological services.