A haboob (pronounced “huh-boob”) is a dust storm that appears like an advancing wall of dust and debris thousands of feet high and miles long.

Two dust storms, also known as haboobs, enveloped regions in Texas and New Mexico Monday afternoon, creating unsafe road conditions.

A massive dust storm buried parts of New Mexico and Texas in airborne smut Monday morning, shutting down highways and leaving nearly 900,000 residents trapped in a potentially deadly cloud.The dust storm — a particularly fierce variety known as a “haboob” — was miles wide and thousands of feet tall,