Residents from the Midwest to Ohio Valley got an unpleasant surprise when they found them covered in dirty movies now, instead of having a rain shower overnight on Saturday morning, instead of having their cars washed clean.
“Last night we had crazy total rain,” X user said. @wxkobold posted to the platform Saturday morning from Traxton, Missouri. “My windows were difficult to clean this morning!”
What was the culprit? Dust Storm on Thursday is hundreds of miles away!
The wide swaths in Texas and eastern New Mexico were blown up in a massive sandstorm on Thursday. As the wind wall pushed through, thick clouds of dust changed the sky to an eerie orange colour from El Paso to Dallas.
But the dust didn't stop there. From St. Louis and Missouri to Illinois and even Charleston, West Virginia, there are reports of mysteriously coated vehicles that are mysteriously coated with dirt.
Meteorologist's satellite analysis with the National Weather Service office in St. Louis We tracked the dust from Texas, cleaned up Oklahoma and climbed up the low-air central layer across southeastern Kansas towards Missouri and Illinois.
The scattered shower from a prolonged storm mixes with this layer of dust, usually turning raindrops into essentially mud drops.
However, the “dirty rain” did not stop there. The dust was right to pass through Kentucky And then in West Virginia.
