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The sensationalist UK rag DailyMail reports mystery dust storms sweeping the world this year.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-world-year-grounded-flights-blotted-sun.html
"This year has seen a rash of massive dust storms around the world that have led to travel chaos and blocked out sunlight - but experts cannot pinpoint the reason behind the spate.
This week incredible footage showed the moment an unusual 'apocalyptic' dust storm, known in Arabic as a haboob, struck Belarus, turning day to night, and China has suffered four massive sandstorms since the start of the year."
There is considerable research indicating dust storms are associated with anomalously strong electrical fields, and that a positive feedback loop can lift more dust and make the field even stronger, then raise even more dust, etc.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/296401/filename/acp-7-6161-2007.pdf
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/64195/jpconf8_142_012047.pdf?sequence=1
But are these reports simply due to better information gathering and reporting, or is something novel really going on? Are there really more and bigger dust storms than usual?
Obviously, drought conditions can lead to dusty conditions, and there is a historic drought in the western United States. But is the drought world-wide?
Can you solve this puzzle, or add to it?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-world-year-grounded-flights-blotted-sun.html
"This year has seen a rash of massive dust storms around the world that have led to travel chaos and blocked out sunlight - but experts cannot pinpoint the reason behind the spate.
This week incredible footage showed the moment an unusual 'apocalyptic' dust storm, known in Arabic as a haboob, struck Belarus, turning day to night, and China has suffered four massive sandstorms since the start of the year."
There is considerable research indicating dust storms are associated with anomalously strong electrical fields, and that a positive feedback loop can lift more dust and make the field even stronger, then raise even more dust, etc.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/296401/filename/acp-7-6161-2007.pdf
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/64195/jpconf8_142_012047.pdf?sequence=1
But are these reports simply due to better information gathering and reporting, or is something novel really going on? Are there really more and bigger dust storms than usual?
Obviously, drought conditions can lead to dusty conditions, and there is a historic drought in the western United States. But is the drought world-wide?
Can you solve this puzzle, or add to it?
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