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Recent Examples of sandstorm
In the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, the famous skies were veiled by a freak sandstorm from the Sahara.
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
Haboob is an Arabic word for a violent dust storm or sandstorm.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Sand Vision is made to give the driver better visibility during a sandstorm.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Blending documentary and fiction, the film tells the story of Mongolian herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg who make the difficult decision to leave their homelands after the arrival of a powerful and destructive sandstorm, a situation made worse by the climate crisis.
—Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
Haboob is an Arabic word for a violent dust storm or sandstorm.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Sand Vision is made to give the driver better visibility during a sandstorm.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Blending documentary and fiction, the film tells the story of Mongolian herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg who make the difficult decision to leave their homelands after the arrival of a powerful and destructive sandstorm, a situation made worse by the climate crisis.
—Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandstorm
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One customer, an 82-year-old retired carpenter, told CBS News New York several months after Radiant Solar installed solar panels on his roof, his ceiling collapsed following an intense rainstorm.—
Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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They get caught in a rainstorm on their way back to London and stop at his cottage until the storm passes.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Also, the cold weather is forecast to get much worse from Sunday, with temperatures dropping even further and making the time frame for a pause in attacks hard to understand.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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Totals in these areas are generally expected to be lower, but even an inch or less of snow would be disruptive in places like Atlanta that rarely see winter weather.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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On three days last year, however, there was rain, including a thunderstorm that forced them to close early, Tepper said.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Thundersnow, a rare weather event, occurs when snow, rather than rain, accompanies a thunderstorm.—
Melina Khan,
Oklahoman,
24 Jan. 2026
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The industrial tent, located east of Windsor on Highway 392, was destroyed after the windstorm late last week.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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The windstorm also caused the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment to issue an air quality health advisory for the plains, noting that significant blowing dust that reduces visibility to less than 10 miles could impact people with health conditions, older adults and children.—
Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2026
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The creation became the center of a Hollywood hailstorm in late 2025 after Van der Velden suggested on a panel in Zurich that she was set to sign with an agency.—
Eline Van der Velden,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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This is why severe hailstorms are more likely to happen in the spring or summer, when there’s extra energy in the air.—
Chris Baraniuk,
Wired News,
10 Dec. 2025
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The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Rockies’ epic drought ended with a cloudburst of terrific pitching by Tanner Gordon and one of the feel-good moments of the season coming from a most unlikely source.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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In a sudden forecast turnabout, metro Detroit went from April thundershowers and tornado warnings one day to a warm, sunny day the next, with temperatures in the upcoming week expected to reach the 70s.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Apr. 2023
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Speaking under dark clouds minutes after a thundershower drenched onlookers, Ms. Truss leaned on the weather as a metaphor for the economic challenges facing Britain.—
Stephen Castle,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2022
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Thousands of people lost power when the hurricane-strength winds roared through the area.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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At the time, South Florida was still recovering from the the 1926 hurricane that flattened the area.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Sandstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandstorm. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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