A major monsoon storm hit the Phoenix metro area and Pinal County, marking the largest of 2025. Tens of thousands are without ...

Aircraft are seen on the tarmac of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport as a large dust storm billows around it.

Oklahoma dust storm images courtesy AP Photo/The Ponca City News, Rolf Clements It looks a little like the end of the world, or at least a Hollywood vision of a post-apocalyptic future.

One study found that the frequency of large dust storms in the Southwest more than doubled from 1990 to 2011. A motorist drives into a dust storm near Phillipsburg, Kan., on Jan. 14, 2021.

Improving the ability to predict large-scale, potentially hazardous dust storms on Mars would have safety benefits for planning robotic and human missions to the planet’s surface. Also, by ...