DUST STORM

[NorthernWinos]

While our Southern friends are too wet to plant their fields we in the Northern Plains are experiencing a massive dust storm. Most fields are tilled and the crops are not emerged enough to hold the soil under the strong winds of the past 2 days.....Sustained winds of 30-40 MPH and gust as high as 45-50MPH has made the Weather Service issue Wind Advisories for the past 2 days....Areas of blowing dust near tilled fields has made limited visibility.....

This is our freshly planted fields of corn and soybeans, Jim is out there someplace planting soybeans........

I had darker photos where is sun was not shining through...it was jsut blowing dirt...Here is a darker one...

Now it's raining...a real mud storm...hard on the windows.

It's brutal out there.




Edited by: Northern Winos

 

[grapeman]

I see something growing there NW. Is that rows of corn? That is some dust storm. That's never good to see the rich topsoil blowing away. Hope it rains for you to hold things together.

 

[NorthernWinos]

The rain shower didn't last too long, sure made the North side of the house and windows dirty.

Much of the dirt is blowing off of a few hundred acres of gravel pits that are up wind....Sure is dark over that way at times.

That is corn planted out in the close field...it hasn't emerged yet....this is how peaceful it was a couple days ago....

These past 2 days have not been good lip gloss days....

Sunny and bright now...wind is to subside tonight.



Edited by: Northern Winos

 

[Waldo]

It has been several yearssince we had one,but I well remembe us getting red mud rain as result of dust storms out on the panhandle and in Oklahoma Edited by: Waldo