Another word: haboob!!
the worthless word for the day is: haboob
[Arab. habub, blowing furiously] /ha BOOB/
a hot, violent wind which causes duststorms or sandstorms, esp. of the Sahara in Sudan
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"A haboob may transport huge quantities of sand or dust, which move as a dense wall that can
reach a height of 900 metres (about 3,000 feet). Haboobs result from the northward summer shift of the intertropical front into North Africa, bringing moisture from the Gulf of Guinea."
- � 2006 Encyclop�dia Britannica
"It kind of reminds me of my life. It's my own.. fault, but I've found myself in an information haboob. A dense wall I can't see out of. I'm not even a third of the way to those glorious Zs, and my life consists of work and reading, reading and work, with a little sleep and a bowl of.. cereal in between."
- A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All
"The American haboobs are not so frequent as the Sudanese (two or three a year at Phoenix as
compared with perhaps 24 a year at Khartoum)."
- Scientific American, Jan. 1973
haboobs have been used to great effect by Hollywood.
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[Arab. habub, blowing furiously] /ha BOOB/
a hot, violent wind which causes duststorms or sandstorms, esp. of the Sahara in Sudan
http://www.ghettodriveby.com/haboob/
"A haboob may transport huge quantities of sand or dust, which move as a dense wall that can
reach a height of 900 metres (about 3,000 feet). Haboobs result from the northward summer shift of the intertropical front into North Africa, bringing moisture from the Gulf of Guinea."
- � 2006 Encyclop�dia Britannica
"It kind of reminds me of my life. It's my own.. fault, but I've found myself in an information haboob. A dense wall I can't see out of. I'm not even a third of the way to those glorious Zs, and my life consists of work and reading, reading and work, with a little sleep and a bowl of.. cereal in between."
- A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All
"The American haboobs are not so frequent as the Sudanese (two or three a year at Phoenix as
compared with perhaps 24 a year at Khartoum)."
- Scientific American, Jan. 1973
haboobs have been used to great effect by Hollywood.
http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/